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

Windows Beta 58b – WMI Status, TeamViewer 11, and Windows Backup

Beta 58 of the Watchman Monitoring Windows agent proposes to be the last before graduation from beta. We’re quite excited, of course! Here’s an overview of key fixes and features, the full list is below: Reports WMI corruption. (Learn More in our support site) Adds support for Windows Backup Plugins that use WMI check for connectivity prior to running Fixes a

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Watchman Monitoring gets SMART(er) Utility

Failing drive detection is one of the core services Watchman Monitoring should provide. Our Disk I/O plugin has saved untold volumes of data from being lost permanently. SMART Reporting can be just as valuable, so long as its done right. The workhorse in almost all SMART products is smartctl of Smartmontools. The differentiator between products is in the interpretation and reporting of

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Mac Client 6.3.5 – Better TeamViewer Support and yet more Malware

The Mac Client version 6.3.5 is a maintenance release which solves problems with locating TeamViewer IDs in cases where TeamViewer is infrequently used. Additionally, we’ve added logging to report which files prevent certain cloud backup systems from completing a backup. The files are often, but not always, trivial, so we can’t count a backup complete until

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Other World Computing Product Links in Watchman Monitoring

[floatdiv align=”right”][button href=”http://34.212.152.214/sign-up/owc” color=”blue”]Start your free 30-day Trial![/button][/floatdiv] Watchman Monitoring is designed to keep an IT Professional as prepared as possible. As our agent performs its hourly check, we regularly find failing hard drives, and dutifully notify our subscriber that their end user needs help. As of today, Watchman Monitoring will help our Subscriber provide a resolution

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Mac Client 6.3.4 Improved support for Bluesky and Gruntwork

Improved Backblaze expiration detection Improved Crashplan error reporting Support for new Gruntwork and Bluesky URLs Better support for changing subdomains This maintenance release ads additional checks to our Backblaze, CrashPlan and Gruntwork/Mac-MSP integrations. Releases are influenced by comments to Support and in our Community Forum. Happy with the service? Our referral program pays a commission on

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