Mac Client

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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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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Mac Client 6.3.2 – Better filevault detection, Lightspeed Onsite Expiration Tracking

The 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

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Mac Client 6.3 – Milestone release – Filevault status

While it’s not much to look on the outside, the 6.3 release represents the culmination of marked internal change in reporting. Version 6.3 breaks down the data it reports to our servers with granularity that allows us to fill subscriber feature requests. Additionally, we are introducing FileVault status tracking, supporting Mac OS 10.7 and above. Need to

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