Hello everybody, I’m Julian from CoreCode! I was recently contacted by Watchman Monitoring about updating their disk I/O Error and S.M.A.R.T. status Plugins, with code from SMARTReporter. The I/O Error checking is more complicated than it looks at first. The obvious approach of asking the apple system log (ASL) facility about the I/O error messages […]
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Thursday, May 12th, 2011 / NewsIt’s all about Education
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011 / NewsIn a sense, the entire Watchman Monitoring system is merely an educational tool. The Watchman Client finds out about a problem, informs its Watchman Server, and the server sends an message to its subscriber, “educating” the Subscriber that there is a computer with a problem. But what if a Subscriber wants to be educated about […]
Questions about Watchman Monitoring
Wednesday, April 27th, 2011 / NewsWe’ve been hard at work making the Watchman Monitoring product as good as it can be, and we hope it shows. In the past week, our server has seen some great work, and the client has been both refined and updated. It’s now time to focus on letting people know just what Watchman Monitoring is […]
Time Machine Fancyness
Tuesday, April 26th, 2011 / NewsAt it’s heart, Watchman Monitoring is all about making sure our Subscribers’ Clients are fully backed up. We have a principle not to affect the client computers: to have as little a footprint as possible. With our most recent update, there is one action the Watchman Client can be configured to perform: trigger a Time […]
We are Auto-matic
Wednesday, April 20th, 2011 / NewsToday we released the latest version of the Watchman Client via our secure auto-updating mechanism. It’s great to know that we can so easily send out new features and address any issues in Watchman Monitoring clients version 3 and up. Subscribers can download the version 3.3 installer from their servers, and the next time their […]