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Mac Client 6.5.1 – FileMaker Server 15 and Enhanced Hard Drive Reporting

This release has a number of updates designed to reduce troubleshooting time by Mac Admins everywhere. More drives are supported via a SmartCTL update, and more details are printed when there is a failing drive, reducing the time spent picking the failed drive from that Mac Pro tower. Drive sizes were switched to the more Mac Friendly Gigabyte format, to better align with what users see in the Finder. Backblaze installations now report when certain file types are excluded, in case your users need zips, dmgs or sparsebundles in their backups.  Kerio Connect administrators will enjoy the reporting of paths to XMPP logs, in case they need to be moved along with mail storage. As with all updates, we’ve fixed a few bugs and added more Malware definitions.

We hope you enjoy the update!

Features

FileMaker Server 11-15

  • Adds support for FileMaker Server v15
  • Serial and modal numbers of failing drives are included in SMART Reports
  • Adds support for Kerio Connect XMPP storage path
  • Notes when certain file types are excluded from Backblaze backups (dmg, iso, sparseimage, zip)
  • More Malware Definitions
  • Better support for Autopkg with additional version output

Changes

  • Complete rewrite of the Backblaze Plugin
  • Complete rewrite of the Kerio Connect Plugin
  • Updated to SmartCTL 6.5
  • Drive capacities are now reported in the mac-friendly Gigabyte, vs industry standard Gibibytes
  • New RunPlugin option for internal diagnostics

Bug Fixes

  • Improved Carbon Copy Cloner reporting for certain schedules & installation paths.
  • Corrected FileVault Reporting on OS X 10.11.3+

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Linux Client

Linux Agent Now Available for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS

The Watchman Monitoring Linux agent now installs on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. Packages for both amd64 and arm64 are in our apt repository, using the same install command you already use for 22.04 and 24.04.

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Monitoring Policies: Control Plugin Alerts Fleet-Wide

Today’s dashboard update adds Monitoring Policies: a named, reusable answer to the question “how should this plugin notify us?”, applied to as many computers as you like. No agent update is required. This is a server-side dashboard feature, and nothing changes until you apply a Policy. Every computer starts with no Policy, which behaves exactly…

Dashboard

Apple Business Manager Integration Improvements

Ten days ago we connected Watchman Monitoring to Apple Business Manager and Apple School Manager. Today’s dashboard update is the follow-up pass: the lists now show you every Mac instead of a sample, and the tables sort. Both Mac lists are paginated instead of truncating The enriched list and the “no agent installed” list each showed…

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