Improvements

• HMScript: new parameters for SetTestParam, ReplaceTestParam, SetTestParamByID and ReplaceTestParamByID commands:
  - Threshold (also ThreshouldUp can be used)
  - Threshold2 (ThresholdDown can be used)
  Now you may set limits for most of test methods using script, e.g. you may set limit for free memory or free disk space, loss ratio or jitter limits for Ping tests, set limits for CPU load, UPS load or battery temperature and so on.
  Some examples:
    SetTestParam    "main router"   Threshold   "50 %"
    SetTestParam    "main router"   Threshold2  "50 ms"
    SetTestParam    _AllMemory   Threshold    "20 %"
    SetTestParam    _AllTraffic   Threshold  "55 KB/sec"
    SetTestParam    _AllTraffic   Threshold  "33 pkt/min"
    SetTestParam    _AllTraffic   Threshold  "22 pkt"
    ReplaceTestParam   _AllUPSTemp   ThresholdUp       65   55
    ReplaceTestParam   _AllUPSTemp   ThresholdDown   15   10
    ReplaceTestParam   _AllFreeSpace   Threshold   "20 %"   "17 %"
    ReplaceTestParam   _AllFreeSpace   Threshold   "5 GB"   "8 GB"
    ReplaceTestParam   _AllFreeSpace   Threshold   "6 GB"   "15 %"
    SetTestParamByID   11054 Threshold   "10 MB"
  
  
• Process test in SNMP mode checked up to 1024 processes, now it checks up to 4096 processes
  
  
• Minor GUI improvements (HostMonitor and RCC)
  

• In some rare cases "report generator" module could make HostMonitor unresponsive for several minutes (sometimes this may happen if you set SLA reports with charts for a large set of tests; also HostMonitor could slow down when many test items launch Generate Reports action with disabled "use reports pool" option and HostMonitor does not have access to the target folder). Fixed
  
  
  

  Fixed several problems in Remote Control Console GUI

  New test methods

IIS test	Internet Information Services (IIS) is an extensible web server running on Windows OS. HostMonitor can check various server parameters: requests/sec, cache hit ratio, error responses ratio and much more
HostMonitor may check QNAP NAS storages using SNMP protocol
QNAP Health	This test method checks disks status, power status, volumes, pools, fans status
QNAP Temperature	Checks system, processor and disks temperature sensors
QNAP Fans	Checks system fans, sets Bad test status and triggers alerts when fan speed is out of specified range
QNAP Free Space	This test may check several drives on target system and find drive with minimum free space or drive with minimal percentage of free space
QNAP CPU Usage	Checks the percentage of CPU utilization
QNAP Memory	This test checks memory usage on QNAP devices
HostMonitor may check Synology NAS storages using SNMP protocol
Synology Health	This test method checks disks status, RAID status, power supply status, fans status
Synology Temperature	Checks system and disks temperature sensors
Synology Disk Load	Check Synology storage disks load, finds busiest disk, sets Bad test status and triggers actions when load is over specified limit
Synology Free Space	This test may check several drives on target system and find drive with minimum free space or drive with minimal percentage of free space.
Synology CPU Usage	Checks the percentage of CPU utilization
Synology Memory	Memory test can check amount of free physical and virtual memory

  Improvements

• NetApp Free Space test: "check listed drives" option will count 0 size shapshots only if you set .snapshot keyword in "listed drives" field. E.g. if you set "listed drives" using pattern /vol* then test will count snapshots but will skip 0 size snapshots
• %DiskSize% variable shows capacity of the disk. Variable can be used as parameter of actions triggered by Drive Free Space, QNAP Free Space, NetApp Free Space tests, etc.
• DiskMeter application can retrieve data from QNAP and Synology NAS storages
• Minor Web Service improvements

  Improvements

• Service test
  Service test may work in 3 modes:
  a) Alert when service not started  -  HostMonitor checks specific service state
  b) Alert when service not started or does not respond - HostMonitor checks service state and responsiveness (this mode used by default)
  c) Alert when some "Auto" services not running
  HostMonitor will get list of ALL services with Automatic startup type and check state of each service. If some "auto" service is not running, HostMonitor will set Bad test status. You may specify comma separated list of services that should not be checked, e.g. MMCSS,sppsvc,UxSms; you may use * wildcard at the end of the name, e.g. clr*,spp*
  
  
• ODBC Query test
  Some ODBC drivers (e.g. MS SQL ODBC Driver version 13.1+) support Integrated Windows authentication and Active Directory Integrated authentication. In this case you may type WindowsAuth instead of login name (for Integrated Windows authentication) or set ADAuth as login name (for Active Directory Integrated authentication). Password field is not used in such case.
  
  
• SQL Query action
  When ODBC driver supports such options, you may type WindowsAuth instead of login name (for Integrated Windows authentication) or set ADAuth as login name (for Active Directory Integrated authentication). Password field is not used in such case.
  
  
• Database logging
  When ODBC driver supports such options, you may type WindowsAuth instead of login name (for Integrated Windows authentication) or set ADAuth as login name (for Active Directory Integrated authentication). Password field is not used in such case.
  
  
• Minor GUI improvements
  
  
• Improved WatchDog application
  
  

• RMA for Windows: HP iLO Fans test could check specific fan but could not check all fans installed on the system. Fixed

  New test methods

• Apache test (Apache HTTP Server is a free and open source web server for UNIX and Windows platforms).
  HostMonitor can check the following Apache server performance metrics:
  - Connections/sec
  - Bytes/sec
  - Busy workers
  - Idle workers
  
  
• NGINX test (NGINX is high performance HTTP and reverse proxy server).
  HostMonitor can check the following performance metrics:
  - Connections/sec
  - Requests/sec
  - Non handled ratio
  - Non handled count
  - Current connections
  - Busy(active) connections
  - Waiting(idle) connections
  - 1xx responses ratio
  - 3xx responses ratio
  - 4xx responses ratio
  - 5xx responses ratio
  - Total error responses ratio
  - Cache hit ratio
  - SSL fails ratio
  - SSL handshakes / sec
  - Health checks
  
  
• Tomcat test (Tomcat is one of the most commonly used servers for Java applications).
  HostMonitor can check the following performance metrics:
  - Free memory ratio (%)
  - Used memory (MB)
  - Busy threads
  - Busy threads ratio (%)
  - Requests/sec
  - Bytes/sec
  - Processing time
  - Errors/sec
  - Errors/requests ratio
  
  

  Improvements

• HostMonitor (RCC): new popup menu "Switch to folder N" switches from Views pane to Folders pane and selects folder where current test item is located
• HostMonitor (RCC): new option for custom menu items. If command starts with [copy] keyword then HostMonitor does not execute command, instead it resolves variables and copies data into clipboard. E.g. if you set menu item using the following command line [Copy] Test: %TestName% Reply: %Reply% select the test and click on menu, then HostMonitor will copy into clipboard buffer string with test name and reply value.
• New telnet command 'TDID <TestID>' (or 'TestDependentsByID <TestID>') shows list of IDs of all test items that depend on Master test specified by TestID

• HostMonitor (RCC): if you copy multi-line text from clipboard into User Defined Variables list (Global variables), GUI did not process such operation correctly. Fixed

  RMA for UNIX 1.32

• File Integrity test supports MD5, SHA256 and SHA512 digest. Use one of these modes when you need to check for unauthorized file modifications. CRC32 can be used for legitimate modifications monitoring (not related to system security).

  New test methods (HostMonitor, RMA for Windows)

• UPS Health
• UPS Load
• UPS Charge
• UPS Voltage In
• UPS Voltage Out
• UPS Temperature
• UPS Remaining Time

Using SNMP protocol HostMonitor may monitor uninterruptible power supply devices, check battery status, retrieve active alarm conditions, monitor battery temperature and charge level, input voltage and so on. HostMonitor can check various UPS models from APC, CyberPower, Hewlett-Packard Company, Eaton, IBM, TrippLite and more.

  Network Discovery

• Replication option "Adjust test settings automatically" tells HostMonitor to adjust some settings according to target host OS and detected protocols. Now it may set UPS type when you copy UPS related test
• New Replication option "If Master tests not copied, try to find new masters using existing tests as examples" can be very useful when you already have set of test items related to the target hosts but you want to replicate some new test methods. If you copy just dependent items, this option tells HostMonitor to check existing test items located in the target folder, find tests with similar "master-pattern" and set the same masters for new test items.

  Acknowledgments:

Normally HostMonitor resets operators comments when test status changes from "bad" to "good". Now you may change this behavior. If you insert KeepAckCommentNDays=3 line into [Logging] section of hostmon.ini file and restart HostMonitor, it will keep comments that are up to 3 days old (you may use different number, e.g. keep comments for 5 or 15 days)

  HostMonitor, RCC and RMA: minor improvements and corrections related to the following modules

Tests

• HP iLO Health
• HP iLO Disks
• HTTP test
• URL test

• Send message to pager (TAP)
• Send message to beeper
• Send E-Mail

• Test Properties dialog for Drive Free Space test
• User profiles dialog
• Auditing Tool

• supports SNMPv3, authorization, encryption
• supports SNMP profiles
• more responsive GUI

• supports SNMPv3, authorization, encryption
• supports SNMP profiles

• HostMonitor 11.10 Beta: WMI test could fail by timeout. Fixed

  Improved tests

NT Event Log
New option "Report about last event but count ALL" works similar to "Report about last Bad/Good event" option, however it counts all NEW events that fit "bad" filter (and "good" filter if specified). If "Show events description in Reply field for NT Event Log test" option is disabled (Options dialog) then test will display number of detected "bad" events in Reply field of the test.
Also you may use '%NTEvents_BadCnt%' and '%NTEvents_GoodCnt%' variables for Optional status processing, actions or Custom HTML reports (regardless of "Show events description" option). E.g.

• Now test may check MD5, SHA256 and SHA512 digest. Use one of these modes when you need to check for unauthorized file modifications. CRC32 can be used for legitimate modifications monitoring (not related to system security).
• Also HostMonitor/RCC GUI and "Import from file" function allows you to setup test item with empty digest. In this case HostMonitor will calculate and set digest on 1st test probe. This saves your time when you need to setup tests for large files.
• Minor GUI improvements

• Now test may check MD5, SHA256 and SHA512 digest. Use one of these modes when you need to check for unauthorized file modifications. CRC32 can be used for legitimate modifications monitoring.
• New option "Compute and check digest within the following tags" allows to specify some important parts of the document and check digest only for these parts. E.g. check digest for HTML code between "<table" and "</table>" sections

• Show popup window
• Send e-mail

  Improved Network Discovery

Copy/Paste/Replicate functions offer new option "Adjust test settings automatically". It tells HostMonitor to adjust some settings according to target host OS and detected protocols. E.g. if you copy CPU Usage test from Windows to Linux host, HostMonitor may change OS property from "Windows (RPC)" to "UNIX (SNMP)"; also HostMonitor may change SNMP profile specified for the tests; change OS property for Memory tests; adjust Drive Free Space tests for Windows, UNIX or NetApp devices and so on.


  New application: Disk Meter

Disk Meter displays chart with information about all disk drives mounted on local or remote system. Each disk represented by a bar; red colored bar indicates disk with free space below specified limit.


Disk Meter can connect to remote system using WMI or SNMP protocol and retrieve data from various systems, such as:
- Windows
- FreeBSD
- Linux
- AIX
- ESXi
- Solaris
- NetApp NAS


  GUI improvements

• HostMonitor/RCC: new popup menu item related to Drive Free Space test allows to start Disk Meter using test settings for automatic data collection (note: SNMPv3 not supported by Disk Meter v1.00, will be supported in the next version)
• RMA Manager: better interaction between RMA Manager, HostMonitor and Active RMA agents
• Other minor improvements for HostMonitor, RCC and Web Service GUI

• HostMonitor v11.00 Beta could not process connections from Active RMA agents when many agents sent requests at the same time. Fixed

• 24 new test methods
• 11 improved tests
• Improved actions
• New variables
• Improved built-in tools
• Improved external applications
• Speed optimization

• Drive Free Space
• CPU Usage
• Process

• Cisco Health
• Cisco Temp
• Cisco Fans
• Cisco Power
• Cisco CPU Usage
• Cisco Memory

• Juniper Health
• Juniper Temp
• Juniper Fans
• Juniper CPU Usage
• Juniper Memory

• NetApp Health
• NetApp CPU Usage
• NetApp Temperature
• NetApp RAID status
• NetApp Free Space

• HP iLO Health
• HP iLO Temp
• HP iLO Fans
• HP iLO Power
• HP iLO Disks

• Consumes less system resources when HostMonitor needs to send hundreds of mails at once

• New option "Max windows on screen" limits number of windows on screen (possible value 1..128)
• Increased limit for "time to live" parameter up to 1800 sec

• About 30% less CPU load
• If POST request is used and 'Content-length:' header missed, HostMonitor inserts correct 'Content-length' line
• HostMonitor checks HTTP reply code and records error in the log when reply code<>200

• Improved System Info
• Improved Network Discovery
• Improved Auditing Tool
• Stronger password checks

• It works much faster when SNMP v2c or SNMP v3 is supported
• If possible, System Info tool selects SNMP profile with higher version of SNMP protocol
• If v1 protocol specified for all related tests, System Info still verifies if target device supports SNMP v2 and provides such information
• HostMonitor v10: some requests could not work with SNMPv3. Fixed

• Recognizes more devices, e.g. Juniper and NetApp, various UPS devices
• Allows to create and replicate new test methods
• %Type% variable allows to search for Juniper, NetApp, SonicWall and UPS devices
• If you choose "all SNMP profiles" mode for some network, then HostMonitor sets priority for profiles with SNMP v2c and v3 versions (not applicable for devices already discovered by older version of the software)

• Checks operator accounts, for each operator with remote access checks password strength
• Checks strength of the passwords used by RMA agents
• Checks SNMP protocol version used for tests like Network Traffic, Interface Status, SNMP Table, tests related to Cisco, Juniper and NetApp devices; warns admin when SNMP v1 is used

• HostMonitor and RCC: User Profiles unit checks operator accounts, for each operators with remote access checks password strength
• RCC operator can change its own password using menu User->Change password. Software checks passwords strength and does not allow weak passwords (unless StrongRccPswd option disabled, see notes below)
• RMA Manager: as you know it allows to change passwords for existing agents using "Agent configuration" option. New RMA Manager uses new code for stronger password validation and does not allow weak passwords (unless StrongPswd option disabled, see notes below)
• RMA_Cfg utility (helps to setup RMA settings locally) uses new code for password validation as well. It warns the operator but allows weak passwords after confirmation

Also, there is optional parameter in rma_mgr.ini file (used by RMA Manager)
[PswdCheck]
StrongPswd=1
Default value 1 - means RMA Manager will not accept weak passwords when operator will try to change password for existing/running agent using "Agent configuration" option. If you set StrongPswd=0 then RMA Manager will check passwords and show warning when weak password detected however any password will be accepted after confirmation.

• improved RMA for Windows
• improved MIB Browser
• minor changes and improvements were applied to Process Meter, Log Analyzer, Log Visualizer, RMA Manager, WatchDog, Web Service and Telnet Service

• UNIX (Linux, BSD, AIX, etc)
• Cisco
• Juniper
• NetApp
• HP iLO

• Dominant Process
• Disk Free Space
• Process test
• CPU Usage
• Certificate Expiration
• URL test
• DNS test
• SNMP Table test
• Network Traffic test
• Interface Status test

• Network interfaces window (it helps you to setup Network Traffic and Interface Status tests)
• System Info tool

• Get table
• Get row
• Get next N counters

• HostMonitor and Active RMA: SNMP Trap test could filter out some valid coldStart, warmStart messages. Fixed
• HostMonitor: in some cases HTTP test did not calculate CRC for images even with "download images" option enabled. Fixed
• RCC: import from local file could report errors regarding profiles used by SNMP related tests. Fixed
• Web Service: did not show total_good_tests / total_bad_tests statistics when logged in web operator does not have access to Root folder. Fixed