[winsyslog] WinSyslog 6.0 Released

[Hamid Ali Raja]

Dear All, 

Adiscon is proud to announce the release of WinSyslog 6.0 Final. Today,
Adiscon Gmbh. President Rainer Gerhards announced the immediate
availability of the latest WinSyslog Final version. In his announcement,
he said, "Adiscon is thankful to its customers whose continues feedback
made this release a real success and helped us to release a product that
is ready to challenge the real world tasks".

Principal features enhancements include new services with more features
and functionalities in the existing services and actions. It has now
more user friendly user interface and much more. Highlighted Additions 

.	New Service: MonitorWare Echo Reply service has been added and
it ensures that always a fresh probe of the remote WinySyslog service is
done. 
.	Write to Database Action: This action has been totally rewritten
and now provides more flexibility. Almost everything is customizable and
fine-tunable to exact customer needs. For the SystemEventProperties
table, a "Maximum value length" can be set for text fields. This allows
the truncation of large text fields.
.	Start Program Action: Now it supports the property replacer, it
means that the parameter-passing is now much more powerful. Parameters
can now be drawn from the full set of event properties. Of course, the
previous format can also be selected if needed.


.	SETP Action: With new received timeout settings, it is possible
to control how long a SETP session would be established. The big plus of
these timeouts is that they can save considerable network overhead
especially in the case of SSL-protected sessions.


.	Greatly enhanced Configuration Program: There are numerous
helpful additions to the configuration program, like full copy & paste
support for almost all functions now, new shortcut keys, persistent
treeview display and much more.

.	Enhanced SETP client: SETP client has been enhanced and server
allows compressed transmission modes and fine-tunable session timeout
settings. This greatly improves SETP performance.

.	Compute Status Variable action: It is added with a new action to
increment or decrement a status variable, basically for complex tasks.
Currently the "NTServicemonitorAlerter & Recoverer" sample uses this
action to implement a reminder.

.	SNMP Support: Greatly enhanced SNMP support makes MIB decoding
and parsing fully supported.

.	SNMP Action: Ability to send SNMP traps upon detection of an
event, ability to forward any message source as a SMTP trap and Syslog
message forwarding via SNMP are also the part and parcel of new release.

	

Bugs Removed 

.    SETP Server 
Fixed a connection shut down which only happened when a message larger
then 4097 bytes was received. Bug is fixed that caused a "virtual" SSL
shut down error. A bug in the decompression code that could be caused by
larger events and could cause the SETP server to fail due to memory
corruption is fixed now. A bug is fixed in the Shut down procedure of
the SETP Server which could occur if SSL was enabled and the MonitorWare
Agent service was stopped.

.	SNMP Receiver 
When a SNMP version 2 message was received, the variable OID's were not
fully resolved or included into the message. This has been fixed now. A
bug is fixed that used to come if an enterprise specific trap was
received. The source was not correctly parsed, so the IP was not
correctly shown. A bug is fixed that has been introduced to Build 261
caused the application to crash, if messages other then those from the
event log monitor were received over SETP.

.	Database Action 
Problems in handling of TEXT type fields are fixed. Text fields can be
built out of properties, so they are more customizable then the other
field types.

.	Status Filter & Action 
A bug introduced in one of the earlier build is also fixed, which caused
the status filter & action not to work correctly. Information and
support on WinSyslog 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 WinSyslog 6.0 from this link: 
www.winsyslog.com/en/Download/ 

www.winsyslog.com/en/Manual/Current/index.html 
- This link points to the online manual of WinSyslog 6.0. 

www.adiscon.org/manuals/winsyslog60.pdf 
-This link points to the printable version of WinSyslog 6.0 (PDF
format). 

Note: Old PDF versions are also present at site for those who need them.


Best Regards, 
Hamid Ali Raja 
Adiscon