Martin Stevnhoved

When you change the password, both the new and old password will work for a propagation time.
During this time all agents that connects with the old password will update their configuration with the new credentials.

Here is a use case.
We are a few administrators for our serveres.
We uses Pulseway to monitor and administrate the servers.
But we have a lot of developers and consultants working on the servers.
We have tried educating them in using maintenance mode, so we don't get alerts on high cpu, stopped services, closed TCP ports etc.
That works fine, but often they forget to disable maintenance mode, when they are done.
We sometimes discovers servers that has been in maintenance mode for days, without we knowing why.
If the maintenance mode button asks for a note/name, we would have something to indicate why the server is in this mode.
You could also introduce a "Snooze" button that enters maintenance mode for an hour or so.

Great! That would be amazing!

Same issue with SQL Servers with multiple instances installed.

Hide Pulseway from Programs and Features:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{FFB50A7D-1792-4D46-8812-9200B1A6B153}]
"SystemComponent"=dword:00000001
You could also try to add "ARPSYSTEMCOMPONENT=1" to the commandline string when doing the unattended installation.
Br, Martin.

Thanks. I have now worked around it. :-)
Consider it a feature-request. It should be easy to implement a optional boolean parameter.
Bye,
Martin

Hide Pulseway from Programs and Features:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{FFB50A7D-1792-4D46-8812-9200B1A6B153}]
"SystemComponent"=dword:00000001
You could also try to add "ARPSYSTEMCOMPONENT=1" to the commandline string when doing the unattended installation.
Br, Martin.

It would be nice with a build in option to trigger notifications based on the date since last backup of any databse.
We are currently using this custom SQL Query i 'msdb':
SELECT STUFF((SELECT N', ' + name FROM (SELECT TOP (100) PERCENT db.name FROM (SELECT name FROM master.sys.databases WHERE (state = 0) AND (NOT (name IN ('tempdb')))) AS db LEFT OUTER JOIN (SELECT database_name AS name, backup_finish_date AS timestamp FROM dbo.backupset UNION SELECT name, create_date FROM master.sys.databases) AS b ON b.name = db.name GROUP BY db.name HAVING (NOT (1 * ISNULL(STR(ABS(DATEDIFF(hh, GETDATE(), MAX(b.timestamp)))), - 1) BETWEEN 0 AND 48)) ORDER BY db.name) AS [n1] FOR XML PATH(''),TYPE).value('text()[1]','nvarchar(max)'),1,2,N'') AS [Missing] // Martin.

It would be nice with a build in option to trigger notifications based on failed Agent Jobs.
We are currently using this custom SQL Query in 'msdb':
SELECT STUFF((SELECT N', ' + name FROM (SELECT name FROM dbo.sysjobs WHERE (SELECT TOP 1 run_status FROM dbo.sysjobhistory WHERE (step_id = 0) AND (job_id = sysjobs.job_id) ORDER BY run_date DESC, run_time DESC) = 0 AND (enabled = 1)) AS [n1] FOR XML PATH(''),TYPE).value('text()[1]','nvarchar(max)'),1,2,N'') AS [Failed] // Martin.

Hi MMSOFT,
 
Pulseway can already send us a notification "when critical or important updates are available".
But we would like to be able to specify a time period in days, before we get a notification
 
We have an other mecanism/script that installs Windows updates, but we would like to use the pulseway notication as fallback. 
So basicly we would like to enter a number of days, so the the search for available updates ignores updates released within the last X days.
 
At the same time it would be nice to change the Windows update search criteria string
 
Defaults could be someting like:
 
string: IsInstalled=0 and Type='Software' and IsHidden=0 days: 14  
Any thoughts about this?
 
 
Best Regards,
Martin Stevnhoved

+1
It would be very nice If all the graphs, would have some more retention time - like lets say 30 days.
I know that you as a cloud serve don't want to collect to much data, but it could be an Enterpise Server feauture, or the data could be keept at the agent.
It would also we great if we could compare different legends on the same graph. This could be a mini performance monitor availability on the Enterprise Server website, like the notification history.
Best Regards,
Martin

Hi Ant.
We are doing patch management via normal Windows Updates on clients, and via scripts in Scheduled Tasks on server.
It is working great, we are not notified of missing updates.
Pulseway can notify when a critical update is missing, but we would like to put a threshold on it, first notify after X days.
So we have made this feature request: http://forum.pulseway.com/topic/1443-windows-updates-can-we-ignore-the-last-x-days/ 
You can give it a +1 if you like the idea.
Br, Martin.  
 

Hi.
Here is the script to install updates.
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa387102(v=vs.85).aspx
It is possible to update the script with you own logic and policies.
You could also look at https://www.wuinstall.com/
Br, Martin.
 

Hi Ant.
We are doing patch management via normal Windows Updates on clients, and via scripts in Scheduled Tasks on server.
It is working great, we are not notified of missing updates.
Pulseway can notify when a critical update is missing, but we would like to put a threshold on it, first notify after X days.
So we have made this feature request: http://forum.pulseway.com/topic/1443-windows-updates-can-we-ignore-the-last-x-days/ 
You can give it a +1 if you like the idea.
Br, Martin.  
 

I would like to see it as a build in function, but for now we have set up a scheduled task, with this script:
______________
@echo off
set log=MonitorRRAS.txt
set level=0
pushd "%~dp0"
echo RemoteAccess Health State on '%computername%' >"%log%"
powershell -Command "get-remoteaccesshealth" >>"%log%"
find /i "warning" "%log%" >nul
if "%errorlevel%"=="0" set level=2
find /i "error" "%log%" >nul
if "%errorlevel%"=="0" set level=3
if "%level%"=="0" goto skip
  notificationbridge.exe -p %level% -f "%log%"
:skip
popd
 

Hi Ant.
We are doing patch management via normal Windows Updates on clients, and via scripts in Scheduled Tasks on server.
It is working great, we are not notified of missing updates.
Pulseway can notify when a critical update is missing, but we would like to put a threshold on it, first notify after X days.
So we have made this feature request: http://forum.pulseway.com/topic/1443-windows-updates-can-we-ignore-the-last-x-days/ 
You can give it a +1 if you like the idea.
Br, Martin.  
 

You could also add a plus-list under the scheduled maintenance window, where we could select what notification what should be allowed under maintenance mode.
I think that might be the most simple way to do it.
Eg.
- Event log filter: "<userdefined>"
- Service state: "<userdefined>"
- Free disk space
- SNMP: "<userdefined>"
Br, Martin
 

Now the HTML5 web application is released, we look forwards for the user-defined reports.
 
Br, Martin.

Hi Pulseway.
Now we have your client on all our servers it would be nice if we could use it to write registry values on all devices.
I was thinking of loading a *.reg file. Or it it should have some wau!!-factor you could parse *.adm and *.admx files. 
Best Regards,
Martin Stevnhoved

Hi MMSOFT,
 
Pulseway can already send us a notification "when critical or important updates are available".
But we would like to be able to specify a time period in days, before we get a notification
 
We have an other mecanism/script that installs Windows updates, but we would like to use the pulseway notication as fallback. 
So basicly we would like to enter a number of days, so the the search for available updates ignores updates released within the last X days.
 
At the same time it would be nice to change the Windows update search criteria string
 
Defaults could be someting like:
 
string: IsInstalled=0 and Type='Software' and IsHidden=0 days: 14  
Any thoughts about this?
 
 
Best Regards,
Martin Stevnhoved

http://forum.pulseway.com/topic/15-roadmap/

Hi,

Under performance notifications it would make sense if you monitors the Page File Usage.

To day we can set up a performance counter notification, but it would make sense to add it to the cpu/memory section.

Here is an example of the current performance counter notification we do configure.

Category: Page File
Instance: _Total
Counter: % Usage
Counter Value is: Greater than
Value: 80
For: 5 minutes
Priority: Elevated


Best Regards,
Martin Stevnhoved
Abakion A/S