Author name: Allen - Watchman Monitoring

Providing Watchman Monitoring to the Macintosh Community, and working to keep it the monitoring product on the market.

Mac Client 6.1.1 – Immediate Offline Mount reporting, new PreferencePane

Features Notification of offline volumes within moments (Especially targeted to Xsan volumes on clients) Updated for Genieo v2 (Malware Tests) Added more Spigot components (Malware Tests) Added JollyWallet (Malware Tests) Added PremierOption (Malware Tests) Warns when the Ask toolbar is installed New PreferencePane (notes below) Added percent of battery capacity warnings. Changes Improvements in Daylite Server backup monitoring

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Dashboard Update – Late April – Group Management, new integrations view, custom package names

Features Groups have been added as a criteria for searching issues, Contact Menu Visibility and more. Groups can be hidden from view, and restored (removes all enclosed computers from view as well). New Integrations page, highlighting the integrations which extend the Dashboard’s functionality Controls which enable the configuration of the Windows Contact Menu Custom Branding now enabled customized

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MacMeetups for admins help grow quality IT

Watchman Monitoring is aimed at IT Professionals. Our founder, Allen Hancock, is a strong believer in the benefits of collaboration and shared learning. Today we are happy to announce the sponsorship of MacMeetups.com, spearheaded by Adam Codega of Swipely. Working with Adam, we are able to help create a one-stop-shop of admin meetups, and build visibility of these valuable local community resources.

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Mac Client 6.0.4 – CrashPlan Memory Tracking, MAC Addresses, and yet more Malware

Features Added New Malware checks added – MacVX, iLivid/Ask for iLivid Reports both System and Network MAC Address. LightSpeed Pro plugin warns on System MAC change Warns on CrashPlan Restart log entries Better support for 3rd party batteries Changes Made Less logging when Munki reporting is active. Always displays when Time Machine isn’t configured Bugs Fixed

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Dashboard Update – March 8th, Compact View and Statements

Feature API Keys can now be assigned names for better management. 1Password support for the billing form (finally!) New Billing Reference field, to add a reference to statements Compact View added to all list views Change Missing computers are now sorted by last_update on the dashboard. Added the computer url to the plugin results exports. Fixed

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