[Feature] Added a method for Time Machine backup scheduling. details here [Change] The Client no longer sends a warning when a Carbon Copy Cloner event is cancelled by the user. [Bugfix] Corrected issue where “Report Now” and “Update Now” PreferencePane buttons would not function on machines running 10.5.x. [Bugfix] Corrected wrong error message sent in […]
[Feature] Posted auto-updater to bring all version 3.x clients up to the latest 3.3 build of the Watchman server. [Bug] Corrected a Time Machine reporting error in some cases where Time Machine had never been configured. [Note] All Watchman Monitoring Clients are compatible with all versions of the Watchman Monitoring Servers.
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[Feature] The client now monitors for changes in available “Spare” drives in an Apple Raid set. This will catch instances where a member is separated from a mirror set, without actually calling the RAID “failed”. [BugFix] No longer warns if Time Machine had been configured, but is now disabled. (bug introduced in v3.2).
[Feature] Rewrite of the Time Machine plugin for reliability in manually running Time Machine (to be added in the 3.3 client’s PreferencePane). [Feature] Easier filtering of I/O Error check filters to reduce false positives. [Change] Only scan last two hours’ logs for various errors. [Bugfix] Properly handle “&” in the ClientGroup.
[Feature] Added an Uninstaller to the Watchman Client’s PreferencePane. [Feature] Added an “Update Now” button to the PreferencePane. [Feature] Added an -F flag to the updater script, to force an update if desired. [Feature] Option-click the Watchman icon in the PreferencePane to see the current status on the Watchman Server’s web interface.
[Feature] Added Client-side auto updating (security via SSL and SHA-512 comparisons). [Feature] Created Update Status plugin to report tamper attempts. [Feature] Client now reports current Uptime. [Bugfix] Time Machine trigger would count too many days before a run.
[Feature] Added manual Time Machine scheduling at a given hour. [Feature] Reduced false positives by warning if a volume is reported missing twice in a row. [Change] If a volume is missing, skip extra warning about usage. [Change] Streamlined Disk I/O error checking.
[Feature] Enabled altering the ClientGroup via the defaults command. [Bugfix] Time out after 20 seconds if the Apple Hardware Raid card can’t report its status.
[Bug] Corrected bug which prevented the client to run with extended characters in the client name. [Bug] Corrected typo in the Time Machine Reporter plugin.
[Feature] Streamlined code in the Check Volumes plugin. [Feature] Additional reporting in the Check Battery plugin. [Feature] Created a plugin to monitor a Crashplan Server. [Bugfix] Failure to run when serial number not returned as expected. [Bugfix] Reworked Time Machine reporting to warn in certain cases when the backup has never completed once.
