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 […]
Release Notes: Mac Client
Watchman Monitoring gets SMART(er) Utility
Wednesday, October 28th, 2015 / Mac Client, NewsMac Client 6.3.5 – Better TeamViewer Support and yet more Malware
Thursday, October 22nd, 2015 / Mac Client, News, Release NotesThe 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 […]
Mac Client 6.3.4 Improved support for Bluesky and Gruntwork
Wednesday, October 14th, 2015 / Mac Client, News, Release NotesImproved 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 […]
Mac Client 6.3.3 – Potential OS Upgrade notices
Tuesday, September 29th, 2015 / Mac Client, Release NotesThe Mac Client version 6.3.3 reports when a computer’s OS might be upgrading, allowing Mac Admins a chance to take proactive action.
Mac Client 6.3.2 – Better filevault detection, Lightspeed Onsite Expiration Tracking
Thursday, September 24th, 2015 / Mac Client, News, Release NotesThe Mac Client has been updated to 6.3.2 This version is mainly a bug-fix release, but we found some nice add-ons for you as well. We’ve improved Filevault detection. We were confusing some externally encrypted drives, but that’s resolved. We’ll be telling you if a Filevault-encrypted volume starts decrypting, or if the encryption process takes […]