EPO Elements - Change log

Changes since version 4.2

Version 4.3 has the following changes:

CustomerCare

• Persons, Operators, Companies, Assets and Categories can be hidden
• Simple implementation of assets
• Added a note for service information to companies

Client

• Added some links under the Help menu
• When the client is open while viewing today's data, and a new day starts, the client will move to the new day
• Tree focus problems resolved when navigating using the cursor keys
• Tree context-menu now has expand/collapse options
• Graphs can now scale automatically when getting values less then 0

Probe configuration

• Direct save button on the probe settings
• Scheduled probes now have a "Run now" button
• View the last 100 log lines that are generated by a probe
• View the last results of an external probe
• External probe comment now is the application name by default
• Snmp bandwith probe the screen used to add interfaces is now populated in real-time
• Performance counter probe the screen used to add counters is now populated in real-time

Probes

• Added a probe to monitor the windows and citrix sessions
• Snmp probe now retries queries (as the udp protocol is unreliable)
• Snmp probe now uses snmp protocol version 1 instead of 2c by default
• Snmp bandwith measurements on devices that have non-incremental numbering (e.g. 1, 2, 5000) now work correctly
• Changed performance counter probe to be able to query some counters that were not supported by the .Net framework
• Eventlog probe filtering on the Message is now done using regular expressions, previously the whole text should match
• External probe now accepts DEVICE= to change the device name

Server

• Some performance improvements were made
• Fixed copy of last measurement on 0:00, the text is now no longer copied.
• Sometimes the reading of messages from the Message Transport service would be delayed by 45 seconds

License

• Manage license screen now has the ability to re-request a license and it allows you to remove licenses
• Upgrade requires software upgrade protection

EPO-Extensions

• EPO now offers a documented protocol to interact with the EPO-services
• There is an open source implementation of this protocol launched at sourceforge
• You can control access from the probe editor (Edit -> Edit probe configuration -> then click on the Message service configuration icon on a device

Tools

• TestCheckit.exe now allows logging per source
• MeasurementViewer.exe displayed the error message when reading multiple files when the read was successfull

Setup

• Service user account and restart information are retained after upgrade
• Added this documentation
• Start menu now under all users