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Windows Client 64 – CrashPlan, Contact Menu, bug fixes.

Features

  • CrashPlan Client reports the organization type, in addition to the name.

Changes

  • Unifies Contact Menu default look
  • Installers now better detect prior versions of Watchman Monitoring
  • Registry polling no longer logs many overly verbose messages
  • Plugins now catch high level, common tracebacks (ie, out of memory), and report them appropriately
  • The Contact Menu logs in the temp directory if its log directly is not writeable
  • Many plugins have cleaner, improved logging to the plugin.log
  • Small UI fixes in the contact menu in regards to placement

Bug Fixes

  • Some CrashPlan configurations that were not being detected are now included in monitoring
  • Fixes a layout bug with some Contact Menu configurations
  • Many small contact menu fixes for common crashes (including the CM running before the computer has checked in)
  • Fixes an issue with some machines rekeying themselves

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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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