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Version FP1.75.315

1. The content of a table Shooter is sorted if a column is clicked. In this new version, the "sort-column" is saved to the database and automatically restored each time the Shooter is reused. The "sort-column" setting can be cleared by right-clicking the table and choosing Remove all sorting.
2. The "Get one shot" table type is no longer supported. Existing "Get one shot" Shooters in a project can still be used but new ones cannot be created anymore. In this new version, the new Table Shooter-type replaces the old Get and Get-next type Shooters.
3. A new "Instance-mask" option for Graph-, Table and Pie Shooters. Instance-masks provide improved complex-instances handling. See appendix A, example 5 for details.
4. Support for gradient colors for Graph and Pie Shooters. The old "Dark-foreground" option is no longer supported.
5. New "Hide control panel" option for Graph, Pie and Meter Shooters.
6. A new Data tab has been added to Graph Shooters. The new tab replaces the old Show Graph details option.
7. New and nicer, glyphs, images and buttons throughout the whole program.
8. Improved web server and web interface for more stability and a better look and feel.
9. In the old version, you had to specify at least one username/password for web access. In this new version, the logon page is only displayed if there is at least one username/password specified. If no username/password has been specified, the logon page is not shown and everyone is granted access!
10. In this new version, "Custom menu items" are also available in the web interface via java scripting, provided that your browser's security policy supports this and that the directory where the external program resides is accessible via the system path! Examples of frequently used Custom Menu Items are: SSH (putty.exe -ssh <IPaddress>) and Microsoft Terminal-server Client (MSTSC /v: <IPaddress>)
11. The new Desktop feature allows you to save Monitor one desktop configurations to the database for later use. A desktop configuration contains the location and the size of opened Graph, Pie, Table, Meter and Map windows. The Desktop feature allows you to define desktop setups for problem spots (or other "areas of interest") in your network and save them under a specific name into the database. If a Desktop configuration is selected from the list of saved configurations, all Map and Shooter windows are restored instantly! A preferred (or default) Desktop can also be specified at the Monitor one commandline via the /DESKTOP= <desktop name> switch!
12. In this new version, events that cause alerts are made visible on the network map by the use of indicators. Indicators are small glyphs that appear at the left or at the right of the device causing the alert. The indicators stay visible as long as the alerts are pending. There are indicators for Threshold, Trap and Syslog alerts.
13. Monitor one polls the status of each device object on the map periodically. If a device does not respond to these queries, Monitor one assumes the device down and marks it accordingly (a red cross). If a device is down for a longer period (because it needs maintenance), you can use the Suspend Polling menu-item to stop polling the device. The red cross mark is replaced by a blue checkmark, meaning "Status unknown" and a small spanner (maintenance indicator) appears left from the device. In older versions, polling automatically resumed when Monitor one was restarted. In this version the "maintenance" setting is saved to disk and the "polling suspended" status is restored every time Monitor one is restarted.
14. Various improvements have been made to SNMP responses. Monitor one now also supports the DateAndTime textual-convention specified in rfc2579 and the BITS construct specified in rfc2578.
15. New font and format options for object labels on the network map. You can now define the font name, size and color for labels and you can display a device’s IP address on the maps.
16. With threshold shooters, monitored values are usually compared with predefined values. However, there are situations in which you want to be informed about the change of a monitored value and is the value less important. For example, in critical ISP backbone networks it is important to get informed if the operational status of one of the router’s interfaces changes (from up to down or vise versa). The new IDF operator ("Is Different From") compares the last retrieved value with the value of the first sample (the first value that was retrieved when the Shooter became active). This option makes it possible to monitor thousands of ports in large networks with hundreds of routers. See appendix A, example 10 for details.
17. Various improvements have been made to the MIB compiler to better support the compilation of multiple MIB files at once.
18. The new version also provides a new licensing policy. In older versions the required license type was dependant of the number of objects that were added to the network map AND the number of concurrently active Shooters. We received many complaints about the complexity of this licensing policy. The new version no longer takes the number of concurrently active Shooters into account. The number of objects on the network map now only determines the required license type and the number of concurrently active Shooters is no longer limited! Besides this, also the number of objects that can be added per license type has changed. The new numbers are: S-Type 60, M-Type 230, L-Type unlimited.
19. A common problem with SnipMon Shooters is caused by the fact that they can only display one series at a time. A problem arises if you want to display CPU utilization of a host that has more than one CPU. Monitor one provides "Target macros" (in this version yet only for SnipMon Shooters), additional Formula options to overcome this problem. There are 5 Target-macros defined: SUM, AVG, MIN, MAX and CNT. See appendix A, example 11 for details.
20. MLogToCSV.exe is a small and very simple commandline program that converts a project’s logbook (or part of it) to a CSV formatted text file. MLogToCSV.exe can be found in the Monitor one installation directory and is useful if you want to extract the events from the logbook on a reqular basis for reading them into an external database or spreadsheet for further processing. MLogToCSV.exe takes a few simple commandline arguments and can be scheduled to run unattended.
21. This new version supports alert messages to be sent to pagers, mobile phones, PIMs and wireless devices by providing the option to send these alert messages to a messaging server. Monitor one supports generic messaging gateway systems that allow you to define a directory on a local- or server drive where you can save text files and the more sophisticated PageGate Messaging Gateway provided by NotePager.com ( http://www.notepager.com ). PageGate provides powerful options to define users along with their properties (cellphone/pager numbers, email addresses etc). Monitor one allows you to assign a PageGate username to each alert recipient so that the Groups and Recipients functionality is kept intact!
22. Extended options for copying data to the clipboard are available for almost all windows that contain lists of data. The contents of these lists can be copied to the clipboard in three different formats: tab separated, as HTML table text or as CSV text. The new options make it easy to export data such as event messages or trap contents to external programs like spreadsheets or word processors for further processing or printing.