Release History

Corrections

1. Removes a security vulnerability in ipMonitor that could allow an attacker to use a specially-crafted URL to access any file on the ipMonitor install drive.
2. Fixes an issue with the Monitor filter creation process. You may now create valid Monitor filters without having to first use a Quick Filter.
3. Fixes an issue with Live Status page sound alerts not being triggered in Firefox 2.x. Clear your browser cache to activate the fix.
4. Improves the resiliency of WMI monitors encountering WMI Error 0x80070721. WMI monitors for devices that experience this error will be run outside the ipMonitor process for 400 seconds.

Corrections

1. Corrected instability caused by a buffer overrun (one byte) in a rare Drive Space Monitor scenario.

Corrections

1. ipMonitor's "Welcome" page will now be visible upon logging in to the software for the first time.
2. When SNMP Traps are converted to text format for alerting purposes, the hexadecimal representation caused by "tabs" will no longer occur.
3. Corrected a critical issue with the CPU Monitor and some versions of Cisco devices. This bug could occur intermittently and crash ipMonitor.
4. Corrected an issue with the Drive Space Monitor Wizard erroneously requiring values less than or equal to 100MB of free space.

Enhancements

1. Temperature Monitors are now detected by the Add Server and Network Scan Wizards for some Cisco routers.

Corrections

1. Corrected a potential crash when using the Add Server or Network Scan Wizards with SNMP v2.
2. Corrected an issue with the SNMP Tree intermittently not opening or closing branches.
3. Corrected an issue that occurred when upgrading from v8.06 (Build 1130) that caused the Reporting Service not to update.
4. Corrected an issue preventing new JavaScript from being detected in favor of cached JavaScript from previous builds.
5. Corrected an issue that would cause intermittent disconnections over SSL.

New Features

1. New Temperature Monitor (inherently supports: APC, Dell, HP, IBM, Netbotz, Powerware, Sensatronics, Tripp Lite and RFC-1628).
2. New Humidity Monitor (inherently supports: APC, Netbotz, Sensatronics and Tripp Lite).
3. New Fan Monitor (inherently supports: Cisco, Dell, HP and IBM).
4. New File Property Monitor detects modifications (such as File Size, Last Modified Date and File Checksum) made to a file, and triggers an Information Alert when changes outside of specified bounds are detected.
5. New Directory Monitor detects modifications (such as Directory Size and overall File Count) made to a directory's basic structure and triggers an Information Alert when changes outside of specified bounds are detected.
6. New Mass Edit feature for Monitor Configuration Settings makes it easy to quickly apply large-scale changes to configuration fields across any number of Monitors using a rule-based system.
7. New Mass Edit feature for Tags makes it easy to quickly apply large-scale changes to Custom Tag name and content values using a rule-based system.
8. The Mass Edit for Monitor Configuration Settings feature and the Mass Edit for Tags feature both support the ability to preview and / or cancel changes before committing to them.
9. New Relations feature offers a top-down look at the way essential ipMonitor elements (such as Monitors, Groups, Profiles, Alerts, Configurable Reports, Report Publishers, Maintenance Schedules and Credentials) interrelate with one another, making it easy to spot associations at a glance.
10. New Reporting Zoom ability allows users to select time ranges and crop Reports based on anomalies visible within any graph.
11. Test indicators are now clearly marked in Zoomed Reports, highlighting failures and other problems encountered during Monitor testing.
12. New Report Cells have been added to display Report data using unique graphical icons. For example: battery icons will show data gathered by Battery Monitors, memory stick icons will show data gathered by Memory Monitors, CPU gauge icons will show data gathered by CPU Monitors, etc.
13. New bar graph and pie chart layouts are now available to display data within Configurable Reports.

Enhancements

1. The CPU, Drive Space, Memory and Service Monitors can now communicate with Windows operating systems using Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI).
2. The Add Server Wizard can now be accessed directly from within the Network Scan interface, making it possible to control the resource discovery process on multiple servers, workstations and devices.
3. Improvements to the Network Scan Wizard allow full control over the range of IP addresses that will be scanned.
4. The Network Scan Wizard now has the ability to exclude servers, workstations and devices from the list of resources that will be scanned in the future.
5. The improved Network Scan Wizard receives AJAX treatment, allowing it to display status information to all users in real-time.
6. A Credential can now be added to the Network Scan Wizard, allowing ipMonitor to authenticate with remote resources during the discovery process.
7. Monitors that display Transfer Rates or Bandwidth Utilization can now be configured to display inbound and outbound data in either kilobits per second or kilobytes per second.
8. Drag and drop capabilities have been added to high usage areas of the web interface, allowing actions such as quickly and easily resizing, reordering, and adding columns without requiring a page refresh.
9. Improved calendar feature now allows users to highlight individual dates using two side-by-side calendars for a fluid data range selection. Full control over the start and end day, hour, minute and second is supported.
10. The ability to automatically stop a Service has been added to ipMonitor's Maintenance Schedules. Credentials can be configured on a per-action basis.
11. Filtered Monitors can now be loaded into ipMonitor's NOC view, allowing users to isolate and display only specific Monitors in a NOC environment.
12. A Disk Report Publisher Credential can now be specified, allowing Reports to be saved to locations on remote machines that require authentication.
13. When Custom Tags are referenced in an Alert, formatting elements are now stripped out of the Alert's message body, allowing the Alert to be sent out in plain text without additional formatting symbols.
14. The locking method placed on the query statement issued to a Database Server or Data Source can now be specified when using the SQL: ADO – QA Monitor.
15. Live Report screens (such as the NOC View, Details View and various Admin Dashboard screens) can now be designated as custom Start Pages. Monitors, Groups and Filters can all be retained and automatically loaded to be displayed the next time a user logs in to ipMonitor.
16. ipMonitor is Vista ready. The Install, Uninstall, and Configuration Programs will correctly work with User Account Control (UAC). Services and internal executables are not affected by UAC.
17. ipMonitor is enabled to handle North American Time Zone changes. Both the Monitoring and the Reporting Services will correctly perform date manipulation and interpretation on all supported Windows Operating Systems, including Windows 2000.

New Features and Enhancements

1. ipMonitor is now Vista ready. The Install, Uninstall, and Configuration Programs will correctly work with User Account Control (UAC). Services and internal executables are not affected by UAC.
2. ipMonitor is now enabled to handle North American Time Zone changes (occurring in March, 2007). Both the Monitoring and the Reporting Services will correctly perform date manipulation and interpretation on all supported Windows Operating Systems, including Windows 2000.
3. Bandwidth Monitors, when added via the Server Scan, will no longer default to selecting "loop back" and "tunnel" interfaces for addition. Instead, these Monitors will default to unique interfaces ordered by their physical address. Adding these interfaces will require users to select the appropriate interface.

Corrections

1. The SQL Server Monitor will now correctly display the "Minimum SQL Memory" value when the "Verify..." button is clicked.
2. Corrected a memory leak within the Monitoring Service that would occur when using a Disk Publisher to save a configured Report to disk.
3. Corrected a memory leak within the Reporting Service that would occur during regular use on each request to generate a new Report.
4. Live Status Views will now respect the page refresh values. Build 1121 included a user interface regression, which prevented the Live Status views from refreshing at the desired intervals.
5. Live Status Views will now correctly navigate to Groups. Build 1121 included a user interface regression, which prevented access to Groups with an ID larger than 15 decimal digits (due to a JavaScript limitation).

New Features and Enhancements

1. Monitor Edit screens will now display a list of the Monitor's parent Groups, as well as their status.
2. SMS/GSM paging capabilities now support greater compatibility with some modems operating at 9600 baud or below.
3. Improved browser CPU and Bandwidth performance within the Live Status pages.

Corrections

1. Corrected a Reporting Service crashing issue (two memory locations) that occured due to invalid data configured / stored in the Monitoring Service.
2. Corrected a Monitoring Service crashing issue that occured due to invalid data stored for a Bandwidth Monitor.
3. Corrected an issue where Reports could show no data (for a given day) within a Data Table, yet a Graph for the same period would visibly show data.
4. Configurable Reports will now import correctly.
5. The Group Edit screen will now now correctly sort Monitor Members and Dependencies.
6. Groups can now be removed from a "Multiple Data Source" within a Configurable Report.

New Features and Enhancements

1. Email Report Publishers now offer more advanced scheduling, including the ability to be sent out on a specific day of the month.
2. HTTP-based Monitors now allow site names with numbers to be entered in the "IP Address / Domain Name" field.
3. Added new Behavior Modifier: "monitoring.httplike.enlanguage.enable". When this Behavior Modifier is enabled, HTTP-based Monitors will submit an "Accept-Language" Header in GET requests to prevent rejections on some web servers.
4. The new Database Repair / Optimization tool is now shipped with ipMonitor 8 by default.

Corrections

1. Corrected an issue within the Add Server that incorrectly hardcoded the "Public" community within initial SNMP GET requests.
2. Adjusted the External Process Alert to validate "Set Environment Variables" fields and remove them when the "x" is clicked.
3. Adjusted the mouseover tool tips in NOC View Live Reports to include the Monitor Name.
4. Corrected an issue within the Unavailability column in Configurable Reports displaying percentages in the thousands.
5. Corrected an issue with the MAPI QA Monitor recording Uptime as Downtime.
6. Corrected an issue with Configurable Reports showing gaps within most Monitor data for approximately 30 minutes at 8 PM or 12 AM.
7. Adjusted the SMS Alert to report logging information when "Force Test" fails.
8. Adjusted the "HTTP User-Agent" field to correctly display the Agent selected within Server Settings.
9. Fixed a broken link for the pie chart image showing Free Drive Space within the System tab of the Admin Dashboard.
10. Corrected an issue with Email Report Publishers embedding PNG images instead of uncompressed GIFs when "Image Type" is set to "Uncompressed GIF".
11. Corrected an issue where Configurable Reports with the "Header" cell removed would still attach the ipMonitor logo to the email.
12. The GetGroup SOAP query no longer returns an additional "<s>" XML tag.

New Features and Enhancements

1. Bandwidth Usage data, expressed as total bytes transmitted, is now available as a column inside a Data Table. After creating a Report that includes a Bandwidth Monitor, try cloning a column and changing its Statistics Source to: "Bytes Out (Sum)".

Corrections

1. Corrected an issue with "overflow files" in the "dbtmp" directory, which created a gap once a day throughout all Monitors.
2. Corrected an issue with email Reports sometimes embedding their images as attachments, instead of inline within the Report.
3. Units of measurements have received their appropriate case, such as "KB", "MB", and "GB", in both the User Interface and within Reports.
4. Accounts with restricted privileges set to view Status pages in the Admin Dashboard will now appropriately start with the Status page instead of the System page.
5. Monitors in the NOC view, when sorted by name, will now be in the correct, case insensitive, order.
6. Tool tips in the NOC view are now visible.
7. Corrected an issue with ADO Monitors not being created properly, using Microsoft SQL and TCP/IP instead of named pipes.
8. Corrected an issue with the configuration program corrupting the main configuration file (config.xml).
9. Corrected an issue with the HTTP Monitor incorrectly believing the Server is OK on receipt of an HTTP Code 500.
10. Corrected a noticeable daily memory leak within the Reporting Service.
11. Changed the location of the registry "Allow installation on Domain Controller" value to not be version specific. It is now: HKLM\SOFTWARE\ipMonitor\ALLOWLANMANNT=1
12. Corrected an issue with Drive Space Monitors, using SNMP Host Resources Communication Type, where the Monitor would intermittently report that the device "did not adhere to protocol specification".
13. Reports Containing "Drive Size" within a Data Table or Graph Cell will now see data.
14. Corrected a GPF in the Reporting Service that could occur when a Report was first viewed.
15. Corrected an issue with Maintenance Schedules that could cause them to repeatedly execute.

New Features and Enhancements

1. SNMP Delta statistics are now reported in terms of "events over time".
2. Monitor Address has been added to the Details View, NOC View, and to Report Data Tables as an "Intrinsic Property". This allows for a simpler way to specify this configuration parameter than "nv/addr", or "nv/target".
3. New installations will now be populated with default Monitor Filters and an appropriate Email Report Publisher.

Corrections

1. Corrected an erroneous version number within Event Log messages.
2. Corrected a potential 100% CPU consumption issue occuring with specially crafted Event Log messages.
3. Corrected a scenario that indicated rates much larger than anticipated for Network Interfaces when reporting Bandwidth Usage. The Reporting Service was treating Bandwidth usage data like regular data such as RTT, without adjusting for polling frequency.
4. The Network scan no longer requires a page refresh to trigger the next step.
5. Printing Reports within the Report Browser using Internet Explorer is once again possible.
6. Corrected an issue with Windows 2000 ipMonitor host machines unable to connect to Exchange and SQL Servers.
7. Resolved an issue with Content Matching Patterns. Although "\i(.*?)" correctly matched an empty string, it was not what the user intended. This exact regular expression has been internally mapped to "(.*)", in order to grab the current line.
8. Corrected an issue with the Add Report Wizard erroneously suggesting SNMP Delta values for non-Delta Monitors.
9. Corrected an issue with Ajax status pages for Internet Explorer that showed "Unknown Response from Server" due to lack of XML Encoding.
10. Corrected an issue with devices that reported NET SNMP CPU Data causing an empty Add Server Results page to display.
11. Corrected an issue that resulted in a blank page displaying when using the Calendar in the Report Browser with a previously saved Report.
12. Monitor thresholds are once again enabled.
13. Corrected an issue with Monitor failure messages being erroneously stored in the v8 databases.
14. Corrected an issue with the Reporting Server crashing when a failure to deduce time zone information occured.
15. Alerts are now able to provide %monitoraddr% text for new Monitors added in v8.

New Features

1. New CPU System Resource Monitor.
2. New Service System Resource Monitor.
3. New Bandwidth Usage System Resource Monitor.
4. New Drive Space System Resource Monitor.
5. New Battery System Resource Monitor.
6. New Memory Usage System Resource Monitor.
7. All System Resource Monitors support SNMP communication.
8. New Windows Monitor for monitoring the health and performance of Microsoft Exchange Servers.
9. New Windows Monitor for monitoring the health and performance of Microsoft SQL Servers.
10. New Microsoft Exchange Email Round-Trip Wizard.
11. New MAPI QA Monitor, which tests a SMTP server's ability to receive and distribute email, as well as users' ability to log in from a MAPI enabled client and retrieve their email.
12. New Add Server Wizard allows you to query a server for possible Monitors that can be added.
13. Wizards are now available to walk you through setting up all the new Resource Monitors, the ADO QA (SQL Query) and ADO (SQL Connect) Monitors, the MAPI QA, IMAP4 QA, and POP3 QA Monitors using the least amount of initial input.
14. New fully integrated SNMP Assistant allows you to add new SNMP QA Monitors by browsing the contents of your SNMP-enabled network devices and applications.
15. SQL query preview capabilities are now available during ADO and ADO QA Monitor creation. Direct support for Microsoft SQL, Oracle, DB2, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Informix and SyBase.
16. New SMS Text Pager: GSM Alert allows you to use a GSM (Global System for Mobile communication) modem to send a text message to an alphanumeric pager or digital phone with SMS (Short Message Service) support.
17. New central Admin Dashboard screen now summarizes server configuration, details resource usage, provides access to updates and productivity tips and allows you to share information with other ipMonitor users and administrators.
18. New Add Report Wizard helps you create custom Reports with the least amount of initial input. Report preview capabilities are available during configuration.
19. New Quick Reports can be accessed from the submenu bar of an individual Monitor or a Group of Monitors, giving you instant access to statistics data recorded by that Monitor or Group.
20. The ability to specify a time zone allows Report data to be displayed using the relevant time and date values.
21. Added SNMP support for the Service Monitor.
22. Added SNMP support for the Drive Space Monitor.

1. In addition to Response Time, Uptime and Downtime, ipMonitor's ability to leverage Time Series Data allows you to view data averages for CPU, Memory, Battery, Hard Drive and Bandwidth Usage Monitors.
2. Reporting features now allow for greater flexibility and customization.
3. Reports now have the ability to generate Yearly, Quarterly, Monthly, Weekly or Hourly Reports (as well as any combination therein, i.e. two week Reports).
4. Reports are now access controlled.
5. Reports can now display graph images for more than 100 Monitors.
6. Summaries (totals and averages) have been added to Reports, covering all Monitors or the Group included in the Report.
7. Reports can now be emailed at a specified time, rather than at midnight.
8. Reports now display statistics data to four decimal places.
9. Disk Report Publishers allow you to save your Reports to the location of your choice at regular intervals.
10. Using the new data sources available, it's now possible to display data averages for CPU, Memory, Battery, Hard Drive and Bandwidth Usage Monitors.
11. Improved ipMonitor Configuration Program now includes "First Run" mode, allowing for quick configuration upon first installing the software.
12. The web-based user interface has been completely updated and fully streamlined for ease of use.
13. Where applicable, State information for Monitors and Alerts is displayed throughout the User Interface and refreshed in the background using Ajax.
14. The standalone reporting interface has been eliminated, and ipMonitor account level permissions are now used to control access to Reports.
15. Single option log in interface no longer requires you to log in to the standalone Reporting interface.
16. New full-screen mode (without ipMonitor logo) has been applied to the NOC view to free up maximum display area.
17. Columns displayed within Live Reports can now be renamed, resized, reordered and anchored to the appropriate Monitor.
18. Tags, specific configuration settings and other custom information can now be displayed in Live Reports.
19. Monitor Status, Availability, Coverage and Duration information is now viewable from the Edit Monitor screen.
20. Enable, Disable, Delete, Clone and Force Test abilities are now available from the Edit Monitor screen.
21. Clone abilities have been added to Alerts, Profiles, Groups, Tags and Maintenance Schedules.
22. Quick Filters can now be used to filter the Monitors List by "Status" and "Type".
23. Improved Import feature now allows you to paste a section of formatted XML text and import it directly in your installation without the need to create or locate a file.
24. Improved Import feature now allows you to import XML settings remotely.
25. Improved the Regular Expressions engine for speed and compatibility with PERL.
26. The Instant "Backup" ability that allows you to manually back up your ipMonitor installation has been added to the Settings menu option.
27. The "Whiteboard" feature has been renamed to "Notes". Notes are now access-controlled.
28. The ADO Monitors can now run in a separate process.
29. The "Navigate" menu option is now called "Quick Links". More Quick Links are now available for easy navigation through the software.
30. Individual Alerts are now represented by specific icons, making it easy to differentiate between Profiles and Alerts in the Profile List page.
31. ipMonitor now supports the Safari browser.

New Features and Enhancements

1. Event Log Monitors now accept a list of Exclusion Patterns, allowing ipMonitor to ignore Events by Message Text.
2. File Watching Monitors now accept a list of Exclusion Patterns, allowing ipMonitor to ignore specific Lines.

Corrections

1. Corrected a CPU Spike in HTTPS-class Monitors caused by recent Windows Service Packs
2. Corrected an invalid Regular Expression backreference that could cause a general protection fault.
3. Corrected date calculations (out-of-bounds checking) to prevent a CPU Spike caused by unexpected values.
4. Corrected an issue preventing control of Windows Services when specifying a machine name as an IP Address under a LocalSystem account.
5. "*" and "#" are now available to be used as message text in Beeper Alerts.
6. Made additional adjustments to improve compatibility with SOAP tool-kits.
7. Altered HTTP/HTTPS-class Monitors' cookie handling to work better with Applications
8. The optional SMTP relay server (specified in Server Settings) will now respect the supplied TCP Port

New Features and Enhancements

1. Added the ability to back up ipMonitor 7.5 on demand using the Internal Maintenance feature.
2. Added a performance improvement to POP3 - QA Monitors when downloading messages.
3. Improved error handling of corrupt database files.
4. Improved error handling when restarting Services with dependencies.
5. Improved HTTP Client-to-Server Compatibility.
6. Improved Event Log Monitor compatibility with Windows NT 4.
7. Improved error handling in the ADO - QA Monitor when analyzing content.
8. SOAP WSDL is now integrated (previously offered as separate resources).

Corrections

1. Corrected a 55-byte memory leak in ADO - QA and SNMP - QA Monitors.
2. Corrected a potential CPU spike when importing site settings.
3. Corrected a scenario allowing Monitors to prematurely drop out of Maintenance.
4. Corrected an erroneous drive space available percentage when user quotas are enabled.
5. Database index files are now removed when Monitors are deleted.
6. SNMP - QA Monitors may once again use 64-bit integers.

New Features and Enhancements

1. Improved Event Log Monitor now downloads events much faster.
2. The ipMonitor 7 backup-restoration utility is now available for download inside the Support Portal.
3. Improved Context-Sensitive Help Documentation.
4. Added two new Common Tasks for recurring internal maintenance.

Corrections

1. Corrected an issue with Historic Reports not being rendered due to mismatched index file sizes.
2. Corrected an issue with some Monitors not appearing in Historic Reports.
3. Corrected an issue where Monitors may not resume maintenance if the Service restarted within the maintenance period.
4. Logs will now be removed after being successfully archived.
5. Database indexes will now be removed when a Monitor is removed.
6. ADO - QA Monitors will now use the configured data column when analyzing content.

New Features and Enhancements

1. Enhanced graphical user interface.
2. New ‘Getting Started’ interface.
3. 5000 Monitor Licensing Tier version.
4. Ability to authenticate with SMTP relay servers.
5. Proxy support for HTTP Monitors, Updates, and Tips.
6. New Credentials Wizard helps with organizing and creating new Credentials.
7. Common Tasks provide step by step instructions on configuring some of the most-often used features.
8. Quick Filters speed the administration of a large number of Monitors.
9. Filters can now be saved to disk for shared or repeated use.
10. Cloning has been added everywhere, except in the security area.
11. Improved Help Documentation.
12. Ability to autonomously roll and archive Log files.
13. Ability to autonomously back up configuration settings on selected days of the week.
14. Ability to autonomously archive Statistics Data to lessen the data footprint.
15. Ability to select a Start Page to view upon logging in to the Administration interface.
16. The third-party licensing component has been replaced.
17. The runtime.log file will now receive less unneeded diagnostic data.
18. Improved SNMP Trap Support. All bindings are made available, in raw or database translated format.

Corrections

1. Corrected an issue with the refresh timing setting for the Groups view affecting status refresh for the Details and NOC views.
2. Corrected a display issue with .txt log files in the logs directory showing improper or missing dates.
3. Corrected an issue with Maintenance Schedules, which upon exiting out of maintenance perpetually appeared as "uninitialized" instead of "disabled".

New Features and Enhancements

1. Application-wide improvement to restarting Services with Dependencies.
2. Improved support for non-RFC compliant HTTP servers.

Corrections

1. Corrected instability caused by a buffer overrun (three bytes) in a rare FTP / FTP - QA Monitor scenario.
2. Corrected User Interface freezes caused by third party licensing component.
3. Corrected Protection Fault with ADO - QA Monitor when analyzing content, specifically against a returned NULL value.
4. Corrected issue where added Monitors and Groups wouldn't display in a Maintenance Schedule.
5. Corrected issue where Monitors could get stuck in Maintenance mode.
6. Logs 'Write' permission will now display and remain when editing Accounts.
7. Maintenance Schedules will now take advantage of applied Credentials.
8. Windows 2003 and Windows XP Service Pack 2 can now load external processes when the ipMonitor 7 Service is running as a built-in account (ie: LocalSystem, NetworkService, etc).
9. Corrected issue where LINK - QA Monitor would erroneously report failed authentication.
10. IMAP4 Monitor will no longer send “127.0.0.1” upon connection.

New Features and Enhancements

1. ipMonitor Configuration program now capable of generating self-signed certificates.
2. Credentials may be created over HTTP when connecting for a local IP address to the ipMonitor host machine.
3. New "guest" type account added to improve Access Control in Reporting Center.
4. New date Tokens added for 2-digit representation of day, month and year.
5. Updates JavaScript validation including Credential Use selection in Credentials Manager.

Corrections

1. Corrected issue with List Network feature that would case IPM7x to crash under certain circumstances.

New Features and Enhancements

1. Recovery Alerts (RESTART SERVICE and REBOOT SERVER) have their own Credential which is separate from Alerting Credentials. This Credential is applied on a per-Monitor basis.
2. Credentials for Alerting are now assigned in the Alert Configuration instead of the Monitor Configuration.
3. Updated ipMonitor 7x Configuration utility to give option of generating 512-bit or 1024-bit CSR.
4. Removed embedded CSS for Real-time Status reports and placed style information in external CSS.
5. ipMonitor 7x Support Tool now capable of scanning databases for and identifying databases with possible data corruption.
6. Config program modified to give option to "Force Strong Passwords".
7. Config program modified to display number of days for Trial in Activation screen.
8. Minor UI enhancements to Config program and NOC View.
9. HTTPS Monitor has option to ignore Common Name mismatch error in SSL certificate from remote server.
10. ADO Wizard added to Monitor Configuration menu for ADO and ADO - QA Monitors.
11. Added the new Event Log sources to drop-down option: File Replication Service, DNS Server, Active Directory
12. HTML Help updated to include specific configuration and use of Credentials for Monitoring, Alerting and Recovery.
13. Custom Tags now display a color-based indicator that identifies if a Tag is present as well as if the is "important". This is identified by the presence of the word "important" in the Tag Name.
14. Popup windows are no longer fixed to a hard-coded position but rather are dragable.

Corrections

1. Corrected issue with corrupt database being migrated from IPM6x and causing IPM7x to crash under certain circumstances.
2. Corrected issue with External Process Monitor and External Process Alert not properly using Credentials on Windows 2003 under certain circumstances.
3. Corrected issue with sounds not being played when view Real-time Statistics with a non-IE browser.
4. Corrected issue with settings panel being misaligned in Real-time Statistics when viewed in a non-IE browser.
5. Corrected issue that prevented Details or NOC view from being rendered in Opera 7.2+ when an alarm sound was configured and a Monitor went into a WARN / FAIL state.
6. Corrected issue with Event Log Monitor rescanning entire Event Log under certain circumstances.
7. Corrected issue with Third-Party Alert not receiving command-line parameters properly that contained double-quotes.
8. Corrected issue with Site Code not displaying in the Trial Expiration page.
9. Corrected issue with External Process Monitor not being able to properly use a Credential account specified using .\UserName format.
10. Corrected some minor SOAP Configuration issues.
11. Corrected display issue with ADO - QA Last Result message after Monitor recovers.
12. Corrected issue in ipm6migrate.exe that allowed unnamed Monitors in IPM6x to be migrated into IPM7x.
13. Corrected issue in ipm6migrate.exe that improperly encoded CRLF's in SQL statements in IPM6x QA-SQL Monitors.
14. Corrected issue with Monitor list that displayed a maximum of 1000 Monitors when single page display option was selected.

New Features and Enhancements

1. PING monitor sends out 4 ICMP packets before reporting a fail.
2. NOC view now displays IP address or Domain Name of Monitor.
3. Real-time Reports refresh range updated to accept 0.25 minutes (15 seconds) to 99 minutes.
4. Downtime Simulator added to Monitor configuration interface for polling Monitors.
5. Modified the Alerting engine to send a Recovery notification if a failure occurs and no Alert is configured to send a Failure notification.
6. Updated ipMonitor 7 Support utility to gather more diagnostic information.
7. Number of Monitors the installation is licensed for appears in the About box.

Corrections

1. Corrected issue with Report Generation not including Report data under certain circumstances.
2. Corrected issue with Reports not being generated or emailed with Groups being included under certain circumstances.
3. Monitor Name / ID fix in Real-time Status Reports is fixed.
4. All Report Center links are properly disabled according to user account settings.
   Previously, link was enabled if viewing Historic Reports was unselected for an account. This would generate a 403.
5. Sound not embedded as ".wav" when no sound is selected in Real-time Status Reports.
6. Corrected issue in PING Monitor where an error message in the ICMP response was being mis-interpreted as a SUCCESS response.
7. Corrected issue in ADO - QA Monitor that could cause ipMonitor to halt unexpectedly.
8. Corrected issue with Credentials being cached in Server / Workstation Control.
9. Corrected issue with Alerts not being processed if there was a "gap" in Alert Range coverage.
10. JavaScript fix is applied to IP Address / Domain Name validation:
    Domain Name starts with a number was being reported as an invalid Domain.
11. In the "Add Monitor ADO - QA Monitor" interface, if you select User-defined, Provider help properly appears in the Inline Help.
12. In the "Add FTP - QA Monitor interface", the "Require the remote side to host the file transfer" checkbox now appears. Previously only appeared after the Monitor settings were saved.
13. Corrected typo to LINK - QA "Verify Download Method" drop-down.
14. JavaScript fix made to browser detection that permitted IE5.0x to not be properly identified and permitted access to ipMonitor 7.