Author name: Allen Hancock

President of Mac Consulting Group, Inc. and founder of Watchman Monitoring, Inc. Firm believer in the Apple Consultants Network program. ACN List Co-Moderator Apple Certified System Administrator

Watchman Server 3.0

[Feature] Added overall mute-until setting for each client [Feature] Store a TeamViewerID in the Client record [Feature] Store LogMeIn Shortcut URL for 1-click access to your client.1 [Feature] Remote Remove Support2 [Feature] RemoteRekey Support, to stop repeated change emails2 [Feature] Displays each client’s current Uptime [Feature] Displays current SMC Version [Feature] Unified language used throughout the […]

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It’s about data protection

We received another warning from the Watchman Monitoring system today: The Client highland of ClientGroup EA LLC has reported the following issues: Warnings: ————– Check Specified Volumes: WARNING:  /Volumes/EADataBackups not found. ————– The details about this Watchman Client are as follows: CompanyID EA LLC Machine Name highland Last User frontdesk Serial YMxxxxxxxx9X (obscured for this

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Mac Client 3.6

[Change] Limiting SMART Status to run only once per day. [Change] No longer reports Disk I/O errors prior to client installation. [Change] Updated installer branding [Change] Updated wording in PreferencePane for clarity of subscriber’s own brand. [Bugfix] Fixed issue where the client would not read the advanced Time Machine settings in some cases.

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Mac Client 3.5

[Bugfix] Client Updater properly calculates days since last check which was preventing automatic updates from proceeding. [Change] Changed the wording in the PreferencePane from “Must be present” to “Warn if missing”. [Bugfix] Prefpane no longer removes the ClientGroup key if removing the ClientGroup entry. [Feature] Implemented new Disk I/O Error plugin, written by Julian Mayer

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