EMCO Ping Monitor - Release Announcements

Version 4.7.2 is available

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 17:27:00 GMT

New and improved features

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

Added support of Microsoft Windows 8 and .NET Framework 4.5

Resolved issues

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

Terminate actions are not initiated in some cases during monitoring of multiple hosts

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Version 4.7.1 is available

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 16:12:00 GMT

New and improved features

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

Added an option to reset all UI layouts to default state
Buttons on the Ribbon bar are regrouped to make the user interface more intuitive

Resolved issues

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

The application cannot work with Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 installed
Application Log Auto Remove and Show Options are not respected when the application is running longer then a day

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Version 4.7 is available

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 16:51:00 GMT

Monitoring time intervals

If you don't need to make hosts monitoring after working hours, you can configure the application to make monitoring only on defined week days and/or at the defined time interval. The monitoring interval options can be configured using the Preferences dialog.

Notification loop

The new notifications configuration options allow to repeat e-mail, balloon and sound notifications, if required. For every notification type you can configure a number of times it should be repeated (including infinite repetition) and a time interval between notification repetitions. As a result notifications will be executed the defined number of iterations or until the next connection status change.

New Add Host dialog

The dialog windows that is used to add new hosts is updated. Configuration options for added hosts are displayed now as tabs on the left side of the screen, so you can see all available options without scrolling.

New and improved features

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

Added the option to specify custom sounds (WAV files) for sound notifications
Added columns that display passed pings count, failed pings count and last outage start time
Added highlighting of inactive hosts
Improved host copying behavior

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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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