I love stories like this. I had a client today who claimed their computer was running like it was “1999”. Photoshop was a big culprit of just not working. So in the course of looking at the computer, I installed Watchman Monitoring – and almost immediately got an alert – RAM!. So I checked out […]
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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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Hello everybody, I’m Julian from CoreCode! I was recently contacted by Watchman Monitoring about updating their disk I/O Error and S.M.A.R.T. status Plugins, with code from SMARTReporter. The I/O Error checking is more complicated than it looks at first. The obvious approach of asking the apple system log (ASL) facility about the I/O error messages
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In a sense, the entire Watchman Monitoring system is merely an educational tool. The Watchman Client finds out about a problem, informs its Watchman Server, and the server sends an message to its subscriber, “educating” the Subscriber that there is a computer with a problem. But what if a Subscriber wants to be educated about
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We’ve been hard at work making the Watchman Monitoring product as good as it can be, and we hope it shows. In the past week, our server has seen some great work, and the client has been both refined and updated. It’s now time to focus on letting people know just what Watchman Monitoring is
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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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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
While this topic may not be a real art form – false positives are no doubt a huge pain to deal with. That’s why we strive to not have any – but alas sometimes things happen. Ok – so the Watchman client (pre 3.2) used to give false positives when checking drives I/O (that’s input/output
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As Watchman Monitoring continues to grow and gain more subscribers, we have heard wonderful stories about how it has not only made them money (which is a good thing) but made them be a more proactive consultant (which is a GREAT thing). In the day where everyone and their mothers are “consultants”, what separates a
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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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