MonitorWare Agent 6.0 Released

Grossrinderfeld, 2008-11-24

Adiscon is proud to announce the 6.0 release of MonitorWare Agent. This is a major release including new features and minor bugfixes. The most important changes are:

• Windows 2008 Server support - full support for Windows Server 2008 has been added, including the ability to emulate old-style event log properties which are no longer available in the new event logging system. Please note that this also enhanced event log monitor V2 operations under Windows Vista.
• greatly improved web interface - which enables many more searching and analysis options
• Custom event logs are now also supported in the "write event log" action
• RELP protocol support - the "Reliable Event Logging Protocol" is a next-generation protocol for reliable delivery of network event information
• Improved NetApp Filer support - now NetApp's real-time event logging API emulation is fully supported.
• Enhanced event log monitor - now containing additional properties and capabilities (like processing events based on a checksum and generating unique record IDs)
• enhanced internationalization  - the core engine now supports UTF8 and UTF16 in many more places, including ForwardSyslog, WriteFile and SendEMail actions.
• multi-encoding support for InterActive SyslogViewer - added support for additional encodings when exporting syslog messages into a file.
• simplified IP-based filtering - which enables matching based on IP ranges
• improved automation support - the configuration client program can bow be used to batch-import xml-based configuration files, which si very useful in unattended, fully-automated setups.

For more details read the version history

Version 6.0 is a free download, but requires a version 6 key. Customers with existing 5.x keys can contact our Sales department for upgrade prices. If you have a valid Upgrade Insurance ID, you can request a free new key by sending your Upgrade Insurance ID to sales@adiscon.com. Please note that the download enables the free 30-day trial version if used without a key - so you can right now go ahead and evaluate it.