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Mac Client 6.6.1 – Improves FileVault, LightSpeed, and SMART

Features

  • SMART Reporting can be set to exclude specific disks by serial number.
  • TimeMachineEditor 5 added to our list of compatible time machine schedulers.
  • Updated Malware definitions.
  • New FileVault reporting options surfaced in the PreferencePane

Changes

  • Improved CrashPlan reporting for per-user deployments.
  • Improved reporting when CrashPlan reporting tolerance is set to alert in 1 day.
  • Improved support for SSDs which are not yet supported by smartctl. (NVMe support coming soon.)
  • Mac-MSP URLs removed from printed PDFs
  • Disables the LightSpeed Webstore plugin.

Bug fixes

  • Resolved an issue where some volumes were not available for selection in Presence or Capacity warnings.
  • Improved support for reporting when a Mac has no serial number (after a bad logic board repair, etc)
  • Improved logging of our own Beacon Reporting process.

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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.

ChromeOS MonitoringDashboardLinux ClientMac ClientWindows Client

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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