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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]