Update: I did not forget about the plugin update, however it requires some backend changes that require me some extended time to find the best way to do it without over engineering it.

Hello,

 

The email notification will be sent whenever you receive a notification from the server. For instance, the shutdown notification will be resent every 15 minutes if you keep deleting the notification using your mobile client and the computer remains offline. Your best option here is to leave the offline notification on your mobile client and delete it only after you receive the "Is up and running" notification.

 

Paul

Hello Dan,

 

Please enable Diagnostic Logging on the problematic installation.

To enable Diagnostic Logging in the Manager -> Settings -> Diagnostics and then click on the Enable Diagnostic Logging. Wait until the service crashes then have a look in the logging file called trace.log inside PC Monitor's installation directory. If you find anything unusual please post here the log (after you remove any personal information).

 

Also you could look inside Windows Event Viewer (eventvwr.msc) to see why the service crashed.

 

Paul.

Hello DieVAMeister,

 

You can achieve folder monitoring easily via a plugin.

 

Here is a link that will get you on the right track:

 

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/26528/C-Application-to-Watch-a-File-or-Directory-using-F

 

If you are new to MPM plugins you can get started here.

 

Good Luck,

Paul.

I don't think it's possible for the hypervisor to know if the vm has frozen but an offline notification for virtual machines can be useful I guess.

 

This can be achieved via a plugin too, in case you are interested in trying it out you can get started here.

 

Paul.

Let me know if you encounter any problems with it.

Yes, I have started working on it today. I finished most of it but I will post the updated version tomorrow. Are you interested in any other features (other than the ones you already requested)?

 

Paul

Hello Everyone,

 

I am currently considering providing internationalization support for my plugins. Is there any interest on this, can this feature help anyone?

 

Thank your for your feedback.

 

Paul.

I have updated the first post with a link to the new plugin. Thank you for your patience, I apreciate it.

Cool idea you got. I like the way you setup static IPs via the router's DHCP Static IP via MAC addresses. Kudos on the idea.

You can block these services in various ways:

 

1. Create a zone for each website you wish to block and make it point to 127.0.0.1 (two A records should do this).
2. Use a transparent proxy server that blocks access to those domains and enforce that proxy server via Active Directory (or use Kerio Control).
3. Have an entry in the hosts file for each website you wish to block on each computer.
4. Fire the employees that use social networking websites at work .

As far as I know monitoring an employee's activity is not legal in all countries.

 

Good Luck,

Paul.

Hello TheBigDogz,

 

I see you are trying to setup PC Monitor to notify you if a specific set of IP Addresses in your network are not reachable. Recently Ping Notification feature has been updated so that you will receive a notification if a monitored IP Address was notified to be offline and has become back online at a later time.

 

Basically you need to normally setup your Ping notification for the IP Addresses you are interested, shut them down and you will receive a notification that they are offline but when they come back online you will get another notification saying that the device is now back online.

 

If you wish to disable the offline notification for Ping Monitoring you will have to create a feature request here.

 

Hope this helps,

Paul.

Hello chillisoft,

 

I think PC Monitor does that too. What kind of information can you see if you browse a host?

 

Paul.

If my plugin still works the it's latest. They like to change parameter count for methods when they update breaking my plugin so if it works I'm using latest

my Boss would be interrested in donating some kind of compensation to you for extending the possibilities of this plugin for that matter.

Please send my regards to your Boss and please ask him to take the compensation and donate to charity. I like doing my 'extra' work for free thus I will not accept any monetary rewards for my plugins.

I will be looking over the plugin changes over the weekend. Also maybe you can apply some pressure on Vembu to extend their API to support more things because at the moment it's a complete mess and very hard to work with, I've tried multiple times to ask them to add some features for the API but nothing happened.

I will post here an update when I have completed the new version.

Thank you for using my plugin .

Paul.

No, that alone should work. I will take a look at it when I add the new feature, sounds like a bug.

 

Thanks.

 

Edit: Is there anything else you would like to do from my plugin?

I will implement multi-server functionality on the next version. You should expect a new version during this week.

 

Paul.

Hello,

As I am a big fan of home made backup scripts, my servers have a lot of scheduled tasks running at different hours, however I have some windows where no backup is running. During this time I can perform maintenance tasks like windows updates, restarts.

I would like to have ,if possible, the Start time displayed on each Scheduled Task and a sorting feature similar to the Process page that can allow me to sort by Name or Start Date.

Any feedback on this idea?

Paul

The link to Crunchbase API is a package they offer but it is the API for Crunchbase service not theirs.

 

ATM AllMyApps do not expose any API nor they support command line arguments so this is useless for now.

Oh yeah, forgot about this. I will post a link later on today.

Or maybe a plugin, who knows. It can be done. I'll consider it.

You can build a plugin that monitors the events and notifies you if the event data contais what you need.

 

You can get started with plugins here.

 

If you need any help you can ask here.

You should never listen to all events, you would be spammed badly.

 

Why not specify the source filter or keyword?

 

"Source: DFSR"

 

Paul.

Have you tried to wake your computer with any other WoL solution?

 

Try to see if any fix from this thread works for you.

It would also be nice if there could choose a visual difference between servers and desktops/laptops...perhaps something as simple as a square icon for servers, although obviously something more sophisticated would be even better!

 

This can be tricky. How can you differentiate from a server machine and a desktop computer? I have about 10 servers made with normal desktop components (Small Company, low cost solutions ). From my experience I use tags on most names I use.

PC for desktop computers

NB for note(net?)books

Server for servers

NAS for ... well NAS devices

Cloud for cloud instances

VPS for ... you got it.

 

This way I can clearly tell if it's something important or not. Not sure if it will work for a lot of computer but this how I work.