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I'm happy to briefly announce the release of Gateway IP Monitor v1.40 which includes the ability to update a DynDNS host name. We received many feature requests over the last few months, and the ability to update a DynDNS host name was probably the most important one. This feature has been on the list for quite some time, and we finally got around to adding it.
We also cleaned up the user interface (we now have icons!), fixed a few bugs and added the ability to customize the email message.
Remember that Gateway IP Monitor runs as a service and can perform a variety of actions upon an IP address change:
Remember that we offer support for Gateway IP Monitor through our forums, and please do send us feedback.
Enjoy!
We also cleaned up the user interface (we now have icons!), fixed a few bugs and added the ability to customize the email message.
Remember that Gateway IP Monitor runs as a service and can perform a variety of actions upon an IP address change:
- Sends an email (SSL support)
- Updates a DynDNS host name
- Executes a program
- Logs the IP address to a file
Remember that we offer support for Gateway IP Monitor through our forums, and please do send us feedback.
Enjoy!
We decided to release a new version of our free NTToolkit to which we added three useful new utilities and fixed a few minor bugs. You will find that some of these utilities can already be used in conjunction with the Application Scheduler feature of EventSentry, extending its monitoring capabilities to verify database connections, web pages and more.
1. CheckDB
CheckDB, as the name implies, checks a database connection through ODBC. This lets you not only verify that a database server is up, but can also check that a database is online and you can optionally run a SQL statement of your choice.
2. CheckURL
CheckURL is the HTTP version of CheckDB, and allows you to detect changes in web pages (through checksums) and looks for text inside web pages. With CheckURL you'll know when a web page changes or when a particular string is or is not included in a page.
Both CheckDB and CheckURL can log output either to the console or the event log, making it easy to receive alerts from both utilities through EventSentry or any other log monitoring software for that matter.
The application scheduler feature of EventSentry can already log output from command-line utilities to the event log, even when those applications are not "event log aware". This feature is extremely convenient for SysAdmins that run a lot of scheduled scripts, since the output from a script can immediately be sent to you - for example via email.
But back to the NTToolkit. The third new utility is NTPClient.
3. NTPClient
NTPClient retrieves the time from a NTP server and optionally adjusts the local time to match that of the server. NTPClient supports the NTP up to version 3 and takes network latency into consideration when setting the local time. Please note that NTPClient does not run as a service, and as such will have to be called repeatedly if you wish to keep the time of a computer synchronized.
EventSentry v2.90 will actually include a new System Health feature based on this utility and allow you to keep the local time of a monitored computer in sync.
As always, we hope the three new utilities will help you get your job done more easily.
We have more software releases planned for this summer. EventSentry 2.90 will be released in early July and we will also be releasing a new version of AutoAdministrator (2.0), in June/July with a completely re-designed interface and several new features. I will report more on that in late June prior to the release.
1. CheckDB
CheckDB, as the name implies, checks a database connection through ODBC. This lets you not only verify that a database server is up, but can also check that a database is online and you can optionally run a SQL statement of your choice.
2. CheckURL
CheckURL is the HTTP version of CheckDB, and allows you to detect changes in web pages (through checksums) and looks for text inside web pages. With CheckURL you'll know when a web page changes or when a particular string is or is not included in a page.
Both CheckDB and CheckURL can log output either to the console or the event log, making it easy to receive alerts from both utilities through EventSentry or any other log monitoring software for that matter.
The application scheduler feature of EventSentry can already log output from command-line utilities to the event log, even when those applications are not "event log aware". This feature is extremely convenient for SysAdmins that run a lot of scheduled scripts, since the output from a script can immediately be sent to you - for example via email.
But back to the NTToolkit. The third new utility is NTPClient.
3. NTPClient
NTPClient retrieves the time from a NTP server and optionally adjusts the local time to match that of the server. NTPClient supports the NTP up to version 3 and takes network latency into consideration when setting the local time. Please note that NTPClient does not run as a service, and as such will have to be called repeatedly if you wish to keep the time of a computer synchronized.
EventSentry v2.90 will actually include a new System Health feature based on this utility and allow you to keep the local time of a monitored computer in sync.
As always, we hope the three new utilities will help you get your job done more easily.
We have more software releases planned for this summer. EventSentry 2.90 will be released in early July and we will also be releasing a new version of AutoAdministrator (2.0), in June/July with a completely re-designed interface and several new features. I will report more on that in late June prior to the release.
When Ryan (one of our web developers) first talked about starting an official company blog, I wasn't too amused by the idea. Don't get me wrong, I thought that having a blog would be great! But the thought of creating yet more content on a regular basis just didn't seem to appealing - after all I keep myself pretty busy with lots of other things in relation with the EventSentry project, not even to mention my involvement with all the other content we have on our web sites (knowledge base, documentation, www.myeventlog.com, etc.).
Well, this was many months ago. I'm not sure how and why, but somehow I slowly started liking the idea of starting a blog where we could share ideas, useful tips & tricks, news about our product and personal thoughts. So after dismissing the original idea it got to a point where I was actually begging Ryan to setup the blog on our web site after I reserved the www.eventlogblog.com domain this week. I even have topics lined up already in my ToDo list!
So here it is: The Event Log Blog.
So, stop by and let us know what you think - suggestions for topics and comments are - as always - very welcome.
Well, this was many months ago. I'm not sure how and why, but somehow I slowly started liking the idea of starting a blog where we could share ideas, useful tips & tricks, news about our product and personal thoughts. So after dismissing the original idea it got to a point where I was actually begging Ryan to setup the blog on our web site after I reserved the www.eventlogblog.com domain this week. I even have topics lined up already in my ToDo list!
So here it is: The Event Log Blog.
So, stop by and let us know what you think - suggestions for topics and comments are - as always - very welcome.
