At it’s heart, Watchman Monitoring is all about making sure our Subscribers’ Clients are fully backed up. We have a principle not to affect the client computers: to have as little a footprint as possible. With our most recent update, there is one action the Watchman Client can be configured to perform: trigger a Time […]
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[Change] Replaced old “Company” reference with the “ClientGroup” tag used to help sort client computers into logical groups [Change] Removed reference to “Client additional email”
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[Feature] Added a method for Time Machine backup scheduling. details here [Change] The Client no longer sends a warning when a Carbon Copy Cloner event is cancelled by the user. [Bugfix] Corrected issue where “Report Now” and “Update Now” PreferencePane buttons would not function on machines running 10.5.x. [Bugfix] Corrected wrong error message sent in
Today we released the latest version of the Watchman Client via our secure auto-updating mechanism. It’s great to know that we can so easily send out new features and address any issues in Watchman Monitoring clients version 3 and up. Subscribers can download the version 3.3 installer from their servers, and the next time their
[Feature] Posted auto-updater to bring all version 3.x clients up to the latest 3.3 build of the Watchman server. [Bug] Corrected a Time Machine reporting error in some cases where Time Machine had never been configured. [Note] All Watchman Monitoring Clients are compatible with all versions of the Watchman Monitoring Servers.
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[Change] Improved page load time for pages with over one month’s report history
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[Feature] The client now monitors for changes in available “Spare” drives in an Apple Raid set. This will catch instances where a member is separated from a mirror set, without actually calling the RAID “failed”. [BugFix] No longer warns if Time Machine had been configured, but is now disabled. (bug introduced in v3.2).
[Feature] Rewrite of the Time Machine plugin for reliability in manually running Time Machine (to be added in the 3.3 client’s PreferencePane). [Feature] Easier filtering of I/O Error check filters to reduce false positives. [Change] Only scan last two hours’ logs for various errors. [Bugfix] Properly handle “&” in the ClientGroup.
[Feature] Added an Uninstaller to the Watchman Client’s PreferencePane. [Feature] Added an “Update Now” button to the PreferencePane. [Feature] Added an -F flag to the updater script, to force an update if desired. [Feature] Option-click the Watchman icon in the PreferencePane to see the current status on the Watchman Server’s web interface.
It’s been a long, careful road to bring Auto-Updating to the Watchman Client, and I’m happy to say it’s done. Security was at the heart of the matter, with stability a close second. We’ve achieved both. In a nutshell: The client downloads a list of authorized installer sha512 signatures. The client then checks to see
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