As Watchman Monitoring continues to grow and gain more subscribers, we have heard wonderful stories about how it has not only made them money (which is a good thing) but made them be a more proactive consultant (which is a GREAT thing). In the day where everyone and their mothers are “consultants”, what separates a […]
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Wednesday, March 30th, 2011 / NewsMac Client 3.1
Tuesday, March 15th, 2011 / Mac Client, Release Notes[Feature] Added an Uninstaller to the Watchman Client’s PreferencePane. [Feature] Added an “Update Now” button to the PreferencePane. [Feature] Added an -F flag to the updater script, to force an update if desired. [Feature] Option-click the Watchman icon in the PreferencePane to see the current status on the Watchman Server’s web interface.
Auto updating is here!
Thursday, March 10th, 2011 / NewsIt’s been a long, careful road to bring Auto-Updating to the Watchman Client, and I’m happy to say it’s done. Security was at the heart of the matter, with stability a close second. We’ve achieved both. In a nutshell: The client downloads a list of authorized installer sha512 signatures. The client then checks to see […]
Mac Client 3.0
Thursday, March 10th, 2011 / Mac Client, Release Notes[Feature] Added Client-side auto updating (security via SSL and SHA-512 comparisons). [Feature] Created Update Status plugin to report tamper attempts. [Feature] Client now reports current Uptime. [Bugfix] Time Machine trigger would count too many days before a run.
Mac Client 2.5.2
Monday, March 7th, 2011 / Mac Client, Release Notes[Feature] Added manual Time Machine scheduling at a given hour. [Feature] Reduced false positives by warning if a volume is reported missing twice in a row. [Change] If a volume is missing, skip extra warning about usage. [Change] Streamlined Disk I/O error checking.