Watchman Monitoring is proud to announce the latest version of its agent for macOS, 7.0.  This version delivers support for the upcoming macOS 12.3 and supports OS X 10.11 and newer. This new version is also the first to natively-support Apple Silicon. Features Full support for OS X 10.11 through macOS 12.3. The Monitoring Client runs natively on Apple silicon. Package Installer no longer requests Rosetta2 before installation. Changes Manages its own dedicated, Python3 framework. Bug Fixes Problems reporting Root Capacity have been addressed. Problems running the FileMaker Server plugin have been addressed. Problems with missing SMART errors have been addressed. Corrects “battery was removed” reporting on desktop computers. With MacOS 12.3, Apple has removed the built-in version of Python.  To continue to support you, Watchman Monitoring has released Mac Monitoring Client version 7, which includes its own python framework. Please bear in mind that there are likely to be a number of point releases in the near future. If you currently use custom plugins you will need to make changes to continue working with version 7 and beyond. See this article for more details. If you experience any issues or have any questions, please contact technical support. ABOUT THE ...

Features Automatic determination of Apple’s Product Description Additional support for new malware Changes No longer reporting POST information on Apple silicon, as the information is not available. Bug Fixes Improvements to the SMART plugin to find additional cases of failing boot volumes. Fix stale network information Fixes issues related to volumes not showing in the Preference Pane Fixes issues related to reporting on volumes’ presence ABOUT THE UPDATE PROCESS This release will automatically deploy Wednesday, 12 January 2022.  The auto-update process will apply to computers as they perform their hourly check in. Not receiving updates across your install base? How to handle out-of-date agents. A list of known issues is located at: http://34.212.152.214/known-issues Please note: Installers before 6.8 need replacement, always use the latest installer. Read more about old installer versions.  

Features New Root capacity reporting tool Notification of macOS 12 Monterey download. New diagnostics file gathering tool Change Improvements in gathering of FileWave version. Bug Fixes Fixed issue which would cause --disable --plugin to not work properly This release brings the parity between what Apple’s Finder says, and what our system reports. Historically, we’ve reported what’s happening on-disk, while the Finder reports what free space could become available as needed. The change may have been technically accurate but was at the cost of increased friction between our reports and what users of monitored computers experienced. Given that there was nothing to be done about the “hard drive being too full”, we’ve adjusted our reporting to match. Thank you all for your patience in this matter. Another addition to this release is a tool which lets our subscriber easily gather needed logs when requesting support from Watchman Monitoring. As of agent 6.8.1, no more right-clicking a folder, compressing, and looking for a .zip somewhere. You can gather logs by opening the Terminal and running a command, or script the log gathering via any number of remote tools. Learn more in this support article: http://34.212.152.214/support-file ABOUT THE UPDATE PROCESS This release will ...