[MWCon] MonitorWare Console 2.1 Final Released

[Hamid Ali Raja]

Hi All,

Adiscon is proud to announce the release of MonitorWare Console 2.1
Final. Principal features enhancements include new wizards, reports,
views and many more.

"I am pleased to announce the release of MonitorWare Console 2.1 Final",
says Adiscon President Rainer Gerhards.

The new release has powerful features which old and new users will
appreciate as they are made available with the help of continuous
feedback by our valuable customers and we are thankful for their
feedback. This release has ultimately helped us to increase the
flexibility of our suite of products".

MonitorWare Console 2.1 Final offers many enhancements, both from a
usability point of view as well as from the actual feature set. For your
convenience, we have divided the additions in three broader categories.
i.e. Major Additions, Minor Additions and Bugs that have been removed.
Following is the list:

1. New Major Additions
.	Startup Wizard - A start up wizard is provided to help you
configure MonitorWare Console for the first time when it starts up. 
.	Create / Remove Index Wizard - Database indexing has been
implemented for the better performance of MonitorWare Console and a
wizard helps you to create or remove these indexes. 
.	Bonus Reports - Three Bonus reports of Cisco VPN Concentrator
are added. These reports are related to VPN Concentrator Successful
Logons, Failed Logons and Blocked Accounts. 
.	New Views - New views are added in this release. 
.	Parser for Unix / Linux - A new parser has been added to
generate reports on PIX data gathered by Unix / Linux Syslog daemon. 
.	User-Friendly Time Filters - Time Filters are more user-friendly
in Filter Form. Now you can simply select "last day", "last week", "last
month", "last year", or "last x days" (where x is configurable). 
.	Configurable Table Names - Default SystemEvents and
SystemEventsProperties tables are now configurable.
 
2. New Minor Additions
.	Configurable Message Box - In previous releases of MonitorWare
Console, when someone used to click on "Filter Conditions" node, a
message box appeared that explained that you were needed to select some
other node to apply filters. Now you have an option to disable this
dialog for future. 
.	NTSeverity String - In filter form, NTSeverity string is now
displayed instead of numbers which were not user friendly. 
.	Friendly Messages - Earlier MonitorWare Console had no user
friendly messages for the cases like empty reports but this time it will
display you the possible causes of such empty reports. 
.	Re-Run Feature in JM - You can generate a specific report
present in a specific profile again and again by checking a check box
that says "Re-Run when JM starts next time". 
.	Manual DB Update - We have provided a button for updating the
database on login form which will force the update process to run. 
.	User-Friendly License Entry - You can easily paste the license
info in the license form. 
.	UI Expiry Reminders - UI expiry reminders have been added. 
.	Online Help Node - A new tree node has been added that contains
links for all the important FAQs, Articles, Step by Step guides etc
available online. 
.	Preserve Settings - When you make some settings in the filter
form of Reporting Module, these settings are temporarily saved for that
session provided the check box that says "Preserve Settings" in General
Options is checked. 

3. Bugs Removed
.	Bugs In Filter Form - Many small bugs have been removed from the
filter form. 
.	Crystal Reports Dependency Bug - Sometimes, Crystal Reports
dependency errors were popped up when JM executed the report. This has
been fixed now. 
.	DSN Bug - Reports were not generated with DSNs that were created
without Windows Integrated Security. This has been fixed now. 
.	EventLogType Display - EventLogType was not displayed in "System
Status Report" and "Needle in Hay Stack Report" when they were generated
on log files. This has been fixed now. 
.	UTC Handling for Log File Reports - For log files, UTC handling
was not done. This is now incorporated in log file reports as well. 
.	Last 24 Hours Bug - Initially when someone selected "generate
report on last 24 hours records" for log files, then MonitorWare Console
used to pick up only that log file that was generated in that date but
actually last 24 hours records can be present in 2 different log files
as well. This has been fixed now. 
.	Save Report Bug - Saving a log file report and then clicking on
the database tab caused some exceptions because of the missing top level
node. This has been rectified. 
.	Report Deletion Bug - Removed the bug that if a report is
deleted, its settings still persist in Job Manager table and it still
produces the report. 
.	Date / Time Display - Selected Date and time is now displayed in
the log file reports as well. 
Information and support on MonitorWare Console is available at our forum
(at the URL's mentioned below) as well as via our other support systems.


support at adiscon.com

Download the current MonitorWare Console 2.1 from this link: 

http://www.mwconsole.com/en/Download/

The online manual of MonitorWare Console 2.1 has been mirrored on the
following site with this URL path: 

www.mwconsole.com

http://www.mwconsole.com/en/Manual/Current/index.html
- This link points to the online manual of MonitorWare Console 2.1. 

http://www.mwconsole.com/en/Manual/Current/MWConsole21.pdf
- This link points to the printable version of MonitorWare Console 2.1
(PDF format).

Best Regards,
Hamid Ali Raja
Adiscon