EMCO Ping Monitor - Release Announcements

Version 4.6.8 is available

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 10:29:00 GMT

Extended list of custom actions

The supported list of custom actions was extended and now includes the 'On First Connection Failure' action. The 'On First Connection Failure' event occurs when a connection to a host fails immediately after the monitoring process is activated and in this case the specified action is executed.

Extended list of notifications

E-mail, balloon and sound notifications were extended and now can be generated for 'On First Connection' and 'On First Connection Failure' events.

New and improved features

Features below were firstly introduced or significantly improved in this release:

Optimized system resources usage

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Version 4.6.6 is available

Thu, 08 Sep 2011 16:05:00 GMT

New and improved features

Features below were firstly introduced or significantly improved in this release:

Added the Last Outage column in the table view

Resolved issues

This release contains a set of resolved issues, including most important ones, listed below:

Potential application hang while starting the monitoring process on Windows Vista and above

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Version 4.6.4 is available

Mon, 29 Aug 2011 17:43:00 GMT

New and improved features

Features below were firstly introduced or significantly improved in this release:

Added an ability to work with Internationalized Domain Names
Added additional columns for the table view, such as: IP Address, DNS Name, Current Outage
Added a feature to copy/paste hosts and copy statistics information, optionally including column headers
Added integration with Windows Power Management settings to prevent switching computer to a sleep mode when monitoring is active
Improved monitoring statistics output to prevent its clearing after monitoring stop, so it is now possible to analyze it
Improved logging to include an overall ping statistics into log report
Improved Custom Actions to set the working directory pointing to an executable file location, if the executable path is rooted or the executable can be found in any of PATH environment variable directories
Improved host names input validation
Improved system resources usage

Resolved issues

This release contains a set of resolved issues, including most important ones, listed below:

Wrong date format during Application Log export
Wrong IP address resolution for specific hosts
Potential error when stopping the monitoring process

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Version 4.6.2 is available

Fri, 24 Jun 2011 17:40:00 GMT

New and improved features

Features below were firstly introduced or significantly improved in this release:

Improved system memory usage
Improved integrated Help

Resolved issues

This release contains a set of resolved issues, including most important ones, listed below:

Outage length is calculated incorrectly in specific environments

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Version 4.6.1 is available

Thu, 02 Jun 2011 18:29:00 GMT

New and improved features

Features below were firstly introduced or significantly improved in this release:

Improved hosts connection status decoration to display different icon for indeterminate status

Resolved issues

This release contains a set of resolved issues, including most important ones, listed below:

Potentially wrong detection of connection status change
Reset Statistics does not reset overall shortest and longest outages time

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Version 4.6 is available

Tue, 31 May 2011 15:20:00 GMT

Add hosts by IP range

Using the Professional version of the application you can add a group of hosts for monitoring at one step by defining an IP range. If corresponding option is enabled, IP addresses are resolved to host names. IP addresses that are failed to resolve can be skipped from adding to the list of hosts.

Application log export

Application log entries can be exported to CSV or XML files using the new Export button available on the Application Log toolbar. Pressing this button activates the Export Log Wizard that allows to select required export format and export options.

New and improved features

Features below were firstly introduced or significantly improved in this release:

Improved hosts export and import process
Improved support for custom screen DPI settings
Improved host states highlighting in the Table View to highlight paused state if the Highlight Connection Status option is enabled
Used more intuitive Custom Actions and Terminate Actions trigger event names

Resolved issues

This release contains a set of resolved issues, including most important ones, listed below:

The Custom Actions feature may work incorrectly for the On Connection Loss event if time restriction options are used for the Custom Actions

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Version 4.5.1 is available

Tue, 29 Mar 2011 18:40:00 GMT

Resolved issues

This release contains a set of resolved issues, including most important ones, listed below:

The uptime should include the intervals when the connection is probably lost
The On Connection Restored custom action does not work in some cases
The On Connection Establishment event is not triggered if a host is offline when the monitoring process was started
Feedback features do not work in specific cases
Potential error while performing a live update
The misprints in the user interface elements descriptions are corrected

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Version 4.5 is available

Wed, 16 Feb 2011 19:02:00 GMT

On connection establishment actions

Using new On Connection Establishment handler you can execute custom actions when connection to host is established, i.e. when first ping is passed successfully. You can use this handler on the same way as you use On Connection Loss and On Connection Restoring handlers by specifying custom actions that should be execution. In the Professional edition of the application you can override common configuration and specify custom action for every host.

Prevent system load peaks

The new System Load Peaks option of the application Preferences is aimed to reduce a system workload when you monitor a large number of hosts at the same time. This option allows you to limit a number of pings that can be sent per second.

Timeout for custom actions

Custom actions configured for execution on connection establishment, loss and restore events can be executed with a specified timeout. It can be useful when you need, for example, to detect a host availability, wait some time until it completes startup actions and execute custom action to operate with it.

New and improved features

Features below were firstly introduced or significantly improved in this release:

The application log can be configured to scroll to new messages automatically as they appear

Resolved issues

This release contains a set of resolved issues, including most important ones, listed below:

Compatibility issue with Microsoft Windows 7 Service Pack 1

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Version 4.4 is available

Thu, 30 Dec 2010 16:30:00 GMT

Sound notifications

Now you can enable sound notifications along with balloon tips and e-mail messages. The sound alerts can be played when the connection is lost or restored and when the terminate action alert occurs. For each notification it is possible to choose from one of the system sounds to be played.

In the Professional edition of the application you can override global sound notification settings and define individual settings for hosts.

Hosts import and export

This version of the application comes with a built-in ability of export and import of hosts information. The hosts can be exported to XML or CSV format. The file format is detected automatically during further import.

Using import abilities you can add multiple hosts to Ping Monitor fast and easy from the file created during export or manually.

Connection status decoration

In addition to decoration of the host connection status using the status icon it is now possible to highlight the hosts connection status is lost for with red color, and hosts connection status is probably lost for with yellow color.

Monitoring pause

Now you can pause the monitoring process. The auto-pause feature is also introduced to extend available auto-stop functionality. When the monitoring is paused the ping statistics is not changed - such host is marked italic in the hosts table.

New and improved features

Features below were firstly introduced or significantly improved in this release:

Ability to define ping packet size along with the time to live (TTL) is introduced.
Ping statistics report is extended to provide more information on statistics for a report interval.

Resolved issues

This release contains a set of resolved issues, including most important ones, listed below:

Error while maintaining data for On Outages Limit auto-stop condition check
Wrong validation of mail recipients fields while adding a host with Professional Edition

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Version 4.3.1 is available

Wed, 27 Oct 2010 16:19:00 GMT

Resolved issues

This release contains a set of resolved issues, including most important ones, listed below:

The application blocks system shut down on Microsoft Windows XP
Critical error on application start up if the carousel view is used for Monitored Hosts area

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