SysOrb 3.6.0 update build 4838 released

May 17th, 2010: Bugs and problems fixed from 3.6.0 build 4831:

• Agent can now preempt huge log parsing to check in on time
• Fixed very rare crash in the sysorb-socketio process caused by connection failures
• Fixed crash in the sysorb-alert process related to custom alert path transmission
• The nodes in the alert lists were not always clickable - this has now been fixed
• Fixed problem with single NetChecks failing after DNS name resolution errors
• Fixed problem with all ICMP checks failing on Windows servers
• Fixed an issue that sometimes prevented acknowledge of logchecks

Download SysOrb here!

SysOrb 3.6.0 build 4831 released

April 26th, 2010: Bugs and problems fixed from 3.6.0 build 4808:

• Fixed "Every month day" configuration option in report template configuration dialogue
• Fixed crash when a grid station configuration was released while synchronizing
• Fixed problem with adding log checks in certain cases (re-adding a previously deleted check)
• Fixed problem with SSL DLLs shipped for 64-bit Windows servers (fixes HTTPS check problems)
• Fixed dialogue "hang" (depending on mouse movement) during scan for SysOrb Server in Windows based Agent installation
• Fixed "Create, edit, delete and generate reports" user capability to function precisely as documented
• Fixed "Downtime, acknowledge and reset scores" user capability to allow setting of downtime
• Fixed resource leaks in the Linux agent caused by loss of network connectivity
• Fixed sysorb-alert process (alert transmission) crash
• Fixed satellite crash caused by master restart
• Fixed event log check formatting problem introduced during the event log check improvements in build 4808
• Fixed a significant performance problem with large deletion operations (during agent rescan or node deletion for example) on Windows based SysOrb Servers
• Fixed several resource leaks in the agent on all platforms when reading discrete IPMI sensor values (drive bay status, RAID error etc.)
• The SysOrb Server now manually updates the timestamp on its database journal (main.odbj) on Windows and Linux, as these platforms do not properly track changes to this file - this makes it simpler to back up the SysOrb database, as it is no longer required to manually configure the backup program to unconditionally include the journal
• The UNIX and Linux agents no longer ship an empty variables file; this cures the potential need to release agent keys after a manual package upgrade
• Corrected name of the superuser capability ("Server" not "ServerCluster")
• The Solaris 10 agent packages now stop the service before upgrade
• Improved logging and diagnostics output for server and agent crashes on Windows based systems

Download SysOrb here!

SysOrb 3.6.0 build 4808 released

April 9th, 2010: Bugs and problems fixed from 3.6.0 build 4783:

• Fixed a grid object versioning problem that was introduced during 3.6 development; if you experience problems with agent or snmp rescans in a grid setup using 3.6, please make sure your master and satellite are running at least build 4808
• Added uninstallation support for the web interface on IIS 7
• Improved variables file handling during the issue of agent-initiated downtime (soagent --down)
• Removed need to explicitly choose "Run as administrator" on the "Set agent downtime" link on Windows 2008 and similar
• Fixed IIS 5 configuration problem during install
• Worked around a Windows Event Log problem which could cause the agent to crash
• On Linux the block device checks now finds both hd and sd devices
• Corrected the URL to our administrator and user manual downloads

Download SysOrb here!

SysOrb 3.6.0 build 4783 released

February 10th, 2010: Bugs and problems fixed from 3.6.0 build 4769:

• Reduced database CPU load on larger installations receiving many NetCheck results
• Solved a problem with improper handling of Downtime on Nodes and Checks
• Ping (ICMP) check retransmission and scheduling behaviour fixes and improvements
• In rare cases agent deletion rapidly followed by agent check-in could cause a grid master to shut down
• Significantly improved performance of a database query related to display of Alert List web pages
• Fixed log check name printing problem in configuration of Parasite Log Checks
• Solved an IIS7 compatibility issue that could cause form POST requests to fail
• In rare cases the sysorb-socketio process on Windows would shut down due to network communication errors

Download SysOrb here!

SysOrb 3.4.2 build 4782 released

February 10th, 2010: Bugs and problems fixed from 3.4.2 build 4664:

• Ping (ICMP) check retransmission and scheduling behaviour fixes and improvements
• In rare cases agent deletion rapidly followed by agent check-in could cause a grid master to shut down
• Significantly improved performance of a database query related to display of Alert List web pages
• Fixed log check name printing problem in configuration of Parasite Log Checks
• Solved an IIS7 compatibility issue that could cause form POST requests to fail
• In rare cases the sysorb-socketio process on Windows would shut down due to network communication errors

Download SysOrb here!

SysOrb 3.6.0 update build 4769 released

January 15th, 2010: Bugs and problems fixed from 3.6.0 build 4751:

• Agent Actions would repeatedly trigger - this problem has now been solved
• Several web interface errors, causing the web server to display an 'internal server error' have now been corrected
• Fixed a windows installer error that could cause an error dialog box to show up during IIS configuration
• The scheduling and retransmission handling of the ICMP (Ping) checking logic has been improved

Download SysOrb 3.6 here!

SysOrb 3.6 released

December 30th, 2009: A new major version of SysOrb has been released. The main changes and new features of this release are:

• New platform support. Support for additional newer platforms has been added including support for 64 bit platforms. Various older platforms have been deprecated.
• Graphical custom views. It is now possible to create custom graphical views in the SysOrb web interface using custom pictures (e.g. floor plans and area maps) and display the state of checks in a clear graphical manner.
• Set down time from agent. Unscheduled downtime can now be set from the agent itself easing administration of the individual server.
• New agent checks. The SysOrb agent has been upgraded to support new interfaces for checking including SAS disk status through IPMI interface and better file system statistics support on Windows and Linux.

Download SysOrb 3.6 here!

SysOrb 3.4.2 update build 4664 released

October 22nd, 2009: Bugs and problems fixed from 3.4.2 build 4648:

• Solved a Windows-specific problem with execution of Custom Alert paths
• Solved a generic problem with shutdown of broken network connections
• Solved a Windows-specific problem with error handling of UDP transmissions, as used by the SNMP stack - this problem could cause some
• SNMP checks to wrongly be reported as "unknown"
• Solved a generic problem with NetCheck scheduling on very busy systems
• Solved a generic performance issue that could cause major delays in web interface responsiveness when reverse-DNS lookups of unconfigured agent names time out or are very slow

Download SysOrb 3.4.2 here!

SysOrb 3.4.2 update build 4648 released

October 7th, 2009: Bugs and problems fixed from 3.4.2 build 4599:

• One potential problem with e-mail transmission of reports has been fixed
• A problem where some checks (SNMP and NetChecks) suddenly stopped executing has been fixed
• The content of larger e-mail alerts could in some cases be repeated inside the e-mail.

Download SysOrb 3.4.2 here!

SysOrb 3.4.2 update build 4599 released

September 15th, 2009: Bugs and problems fixed from 3.4.2 build 4593:

• The sysorb-socketio process could cause SysOrb Server shutdowns on Windows in certain situations
• Grid links would sometimes be initiated to bad port numbers on the grid peer, causing unnecessary delays in grid link establishment
• If a grid satellite and master were both configured to attempt to establish a link to the peer, a race was possible which could cause the grid logic to shut down the SysOrb Server

Download SysOrb 3.4.2 here!

SysOrb 3.4.2 released

August 31st, 2009: The main focus of SysOrb 3.4.2 has been on better accommodating larger installations. There are two main changes in this release over 3.4.1:

• A complete rewrite of the central message passing interface internally in the SysOrb Server. The end result of this is, that the server can better scale to larger setups with more agents and more SNMP devices. It also improves the scalability over multiple cores; the SysOrb Server can now better utilize multi-core servers.
• Tagging for advanced SNMP setups. It is now possible to either manually tag ports (like switch uplink ports for example) on switches and other equipment, and have the tag affect how NodeClasses are applied. The tagging can also be automatic, allowing for example the port link status check to be either enabled or disabled depending on the administrative status of the port. This allows for seamless integration of the SysOrb SNMP monitoring with vendor-provided, 3rd party or in-house SNMP device configuration management systems.

Download SysOrb 3.4.2 here!

SysOrb 3.4.1 update build 4490 released

March 26th, 2009: Bugs and problems fixed from 3.4.1 build 4333:

• The nodeclass logic could erroneously flag conflicts in certain rare cases, such as a SNMP device lacking ifInOctets or ifOutOctets in one entry in the ifTable.
• Rare crash problems fixed in the nodeclass logic, in the alarm logic and in server-side agent communication code related to Agent Actions
• Fixed problems with setting non-recurring downtime
• Added emptying of serial port data during server shutdown, to prevent kernel warnings about modem data loss
• Improved handling of broken IPMI readouts from various BMCs; this solves problems on IBM servers with failing temperature readouts on non-existing CPUs and Dell servers with non-conforming ambient-temperature sensors
• Fixed report generator error wrt. leap second handling
• Extended list of recognized operating systems on the Windows agent
• Fixed problem with small agent data-loss during server shutdown
• NodeClass configuration tree did not properly handle sub-domain users
• Log rotation on the Windows agent would leak handles
• Added quarterly reporting and recurrence to the report template configuration
• Added optional User-Agent string option to HTTP checks to allow workarounds for broken site configurations
• Updated company name and copyright information

Download SysOrb 3.4.1 here!

Evalesco på ICT / INTERNET EXPO, 13-14 Januari 2009

November 28th, 2008:
13-14 Januari 2009, Svenska Mässan Göteborg

SysOrb 3.4.1 released

February 27th, 2008: New features:

• Comments on downtime, acknowledge, reset score. The operator now has the option of assigning a textual comment to these operations.
• This comment will be included in emails sent to other users, as well as put in the Incident Log
• Ad-hoc multichecks. A powerful feature allowing the user to select a number of checks on any overview page, and have the graphs of all these checks shown in the same coordinate system.

Improvements:

• Improved support for VmWare ESX
• SNMP queries on arbitrary port
• Custom check scripts run in separate process group
• Bounded memory use on SysOrb agent

Bugfixes:

• The SysOrb agent no longer wrongly detects SCSI drives in some IBM backplanes as inactive.
• Fixed memory leak in agent.
• Ability to create SSL NetChecks using NodeClasses
• Better flow control of bulk data from satellites

Download SysOrb 3.4.1here!

SysOrb 3.4 is now available!

May 10th, 2007: New features and improvements:

• New agent platform: Debian 3.1 (and later) on 64-bit x86
• Added SSL support to relevant NetChecks (HTTPS, IMAPS, POP3S)
• Simplified the Windows package install process
• Server package for Windows now includes a simple web server for easier installation
• SmartArray support on HP Proliant servers running Windows and Linux based operating systems
• Added support for hardware/environment monitoring via. IPMI on Windows and Linux based operating systems
• MultiChecks allow for displaying multiple checks in one graph
• Significantly improved zoom support on graphs
• Improved unit presentation and number scaling in continuous graphs
• Allow publicly-editable views
• Improved usability in views editing; persistent tree browsing
• Improved grid master performance in multi-satellite setups
• Allow adding custom logos, headers and footers to reports
• Allow adding the domain path to the alert message subject
• Associate agent actions with agent checks for quick intuitive remedies presented with warnings and alerts
• Added search in the web interface, to allow easy searching for nodes, nodeclasses and domains
• Improved entry of unexpected downtime
• New view presentation functionality; view-as-alertlist and collapse
• Allow comment-fields on nodes and domains
• Allow easy display of which nodes are members of a given nodeclass
• Various web interface improvements

Download SysOrb 3.4 here!

SysOrb 3.2.2 is now available!

November 14th, 2006: New features and improvements:

• Option to display alternative units on checks, e.g. Bytes or bits, Celsius or Fahrenheit etc.
• Simplification of the installation procedure on Windows platforms
• Support for dynamic SNMP tables
• Configuration of time zone per user
• Extension of the available check types on Novell NetWare
• Zoom feature on graphs (zoom in on and display a certain period)
• Option for including the AlertPath logging in the Incident Log on the nodes
• Performance improvements and optimizations
• Usability improvements
• New OS platform: SysOrb Agent for Windows 64-bit on Intel Itanium
• New OS platform: SysOrb Agent for FreeBSD 5/6
• New OS platform: SysOrb Agent for NetWare 6

Bugs fixed in relation to 3.2.1 and earlier:

• Acknowledgement is now always enabled on LogChecks
• Bug fixes and optimizations in relation to SysOrb Satellites
• A bug that meant that SysOrb did not immediately discover changes to Alert Groups

Download SysOrb 3.2.2 here!

SysOrb 3.2.1 is now available

April 12th, 2006: New features:

• NodeClass "must-have" option, to ensure that member nodes have the specified check

Improvements:

Significant grid synchronization speedups
• Time series database performance improvements - improves performance on servers with large numbers of checks
• Improved "move node" performance
• Various small optimizations in the database query engine and the connection handler
• New index introduced in the database which significantly improves the response time on certain common queries
• Performance metering interface in the SysOrb server (accessible via. the sysorb-tool utility), to assist in performance tuning and troubleshooting

Download SysOrb 3.2.1 here!

SysOrb 3.2.1 released

April 12th, 2006: We have now released SysOrb 3.2.1, the first release of significant improvements after 3.2. Read more about the new version here!

SysOrb 3.2 update build 3353 released

December 19th, 2005: Bugs and problems fixed from 3.2 build 3341:

• SysOrb 3.2 build 3353 contains all bugfixes from SysOrb 3.0.3 up to and including build 335
• The init-script configure option now detects duplicated servers
• Improved diagnostic output of the agent configuration test utility
• SysOrb Server would not start on Debian 2.2 (Potato)
• Fixed agent auto-configure on Debian 3.0 (Woody)
• Improved reload and caching of PNG images (Internet Explorer specific)
• Fixed report selection problem (Internet Explorer specific)
• Fixed report check name sorting
• Improved usability in the Windows installer
• Improved usability of the POSIX systems agent test and configure options
• Corrected height of tabular graphs in reports
• Fixed accidental removal of the plain-text view in the web interface
• Fixed problem with sysorb-alert shutting down in certain cases involving alert path deletion
• Fixed 'acknowledge' from the alert list

Download SysOrb 3.2 here!

SysOrb 3.2 has been released

December 7th, 2005: We have now released SysOrb 3.2, the next major version after the 3.0 series. Read more about the new version here!

SysOrb 3.2 is now available

December 7th, 2005: New features:

• Support for dependencies among nodes and checks (avoiding alerts from netchecks behind a backbone router if the backbone router is down)
• More flexible notification; 'back to green' and other options
• Dynamically updated Alert View
• Server discovery support (for LANs) during agent configuration

Improvements:

• General usability and performance improvements in the web interface
• Easy configuration of new previously-nonconfigured agents in the web interface
• New graph type for discrete (eg. process presence, SAFTE enclosure disk slot status etc.) and 'uptime' type time series
• Significant re-work of the alert subsystem to improve message handling and messaging performance

Download SysOrb 3.2 here!

SysOrb 3.0.3 has been released!

July 25th, 2005: We have now released SysOrb 3.0.3, an update to 3.0. Read more about the new versionhere!

SysOrb 3.0.3 is now available!

July 25th, 2005: New features:

• Support for RAID disk enclosure monitoring on Windows and Linux
• Monitoring of per-processor statistics on Linux
• Alert if satellites loose contact with central grid server

Improvements:

• Various speed optimizations in SysOrb server
• Allow deselection of Incident logs in availability reports
• Improved HTTP NetCheck support
• Manual assignment of NodeClasses to multiple nodes at once

Bugfixes:

• Ability to put check accumulations in custom views
• SysOrb web interface crashed when viewed in some PDAs
• Problems with copying nodes which belonged to NodeClasses
• SysOrb agent gave faulty readings on 64-bit version of AIX
• Various issues with XML im-/ex-porter

Download SysOrb 3.0.3 here!

SysOrb 3.0.2 is now available!

May 11th, 2005: New features and improvements:

• Addition of options on Views - shorter text, full-screen option, and customization of graphs
• Performance improvements at database level, making the web interface react/run faster
• Improvements of the java tool-applet for launching third-party tools
• Design changes to the web interface in general

Bugs and problems fixed from 3.0.1 and earlier:

• Problems in copying and adding Cumulation checks on network interfaces
• NodeViews, acknowledgement and downtime setting did not work
• Problem in monitoring more than 2GB Memory on Windows
• Missing check boxes in the "Check conflict" screen
• Upgrade of SysOrb Server on Windows would remove settings for GSM modem
• The SNMP process could "hang" in rare cases
• The SysOrb Agent for Windows could "hang" if scanning a removable disk

Download SysOrb 3.0.2 here!

SysOrb 3.0.1 has been released!

February 14th, 2005: We have now released SysOrb 3.0.1, an update to 3.0, introducing features that are especially interesting for large installations and xSP's. Read more about the new version here!

SysOrb 3.0 is now available!

December 19th, 2004: New features and improvements:

• NodeClasses configuration - define your checks per NodeClass to easily monitor multiple similar nodes
• SysOrb Satellite, enabling you to setup a Satellite on a remote network in order for it to monitor locally and report back data to the central
• SysOrb Server - authenticated and encrypted. Ideal for xSP's or companies with multiple remote locations.
• Views based on NodeClasses - easily set up and maintain a View showing all the nodes of a certain NodeClass
• Icons for NodeClasses - also insert your own icons to supplement the default icons
• Configuration Report - new report type that lists the configuration of any combination of nodes, in order to more easily review existing configurations
• Report editing - a new option to the report generator that enables you to insert your own comments etc. to reports before you publish/send them to users
• Change log to report templates - track who changes report configurations, when reports are generated and to whom they are sent
• AlertPath log - track the usage of individual AlertPaths to see when they were used etc.
• Summary in e-mail header - in the subject line of an alert e-mail, the number of entries in the alert summary (if any) will be shown
• PDA web interface improvements - polished interface and shorter download times
• Tool applet improvements - the java applet for launching third-party tools has been improved and polished
• Option to export only NodeClasses
• Web interface improvements - more short-cut buttons, and graphical design has been polished
• General performance improvements to the SysOrb databases
• Auto-Discovery no longer automatically sets up checks on discovered nodes
• New OS platforms: SuSE 8.2/9 now supported out-of-the-box - both Server and Agent

Bugs and problems fixed from 2.6.2 build 2914 to this build:

• None

Download SysOrb 3.0 here!

New 2.6.2 build: 2808

August 17th, 2004:Build 2808 of SysOrb 2.6.2 fixes the following issues:

• Unintended monitoring server shutdown caused by certain HTML alert path configurations
• Multiple NetWare Agent fixes; log file scanning would in certain cases not find all existing log files, and the agent could in certain configurations
• cause an abend on the NetWare Server.
• The PDA mode in the web interface could revert to non-PDA mode during use
• Inability to specify percentage-based thresholds in the web interface

New version available!

July 20th, 2004: We have now released SysOrb 2.6.2 - you can click here to read more about this latest version.

New SysOrb 2.6.2 version is out!

July 20th, 2004: New features and improvements:

• AAddition of options in report configuration for min/max/no response, and display of incident log entries
• Support for uptime measurement on SNMP units and its ports/interfaces
• Option for configuring threshold values in percentages rather than in absolute numbers (eg. 20% disk space)
• QuickLinks in the web interface (for manuals on SysOrb)
• Option to add your own QuickLinks
• Increased information from SysOrb Agents on NodeClasses - in connection with an Auto-Discovery process
• Display of configured downtime in the summary and results pages for a given node - increases overview
• Addition of 30- and 45-minute intervals to Unexpected Downtime configuration
• Explanation of Availability calculation in reports
• Minor usability improvements in the web interface
• New SysOrb Agent: Tru64 (from 4.0f and on)

Bugs fixed in relation to previous releases:

• Problems in deleting intervals in Scheduled Downtime
• HTML-problems in e-mails for Unexpected Downtime
• Lack of scanning/reading of certain performance counters on local-language versions of Windows
• Inappropriate availability calculation, if a process presence check is included, and the process is not supposed to run
• At manual addition of a process in the web interface, the Agent was not properly re-scanned
• Problem with proper functioning of Custom Alert Paths on Windows
• The report type "severe events" was not displayed correctly
• Using a View with "view-in-view", the box status color did not change to yellow and red, respectively

Download SysOrb 2.6.2 here!

SysOrb 2.6.1 is now available!

March 26th, 2004: New features and improvements:

• "Silence check" on LogChecks - be alerted if e.g. a LogCheck is silent for more than 24 hours
• Forward-rule for LogChecks, so as to divide LogCheck on one log file (e.g. Event Log) into several types (e.g. per application)
• Option for displaying miniature real-time graphs in the View boxes = much improved overview
• Option to add one View to a box in another View, thereby building a hierarchy of Views
• Node Info improvements - addition of info on IP-number, MAC addresses etc.
• Support for un-attended installation of SysOrb Server and Agent on Windows platforms
• Cookie-based login in web interface - avoid having to log in when clicking on links in alert e-mails
• Certain HTML commands in the comments field on checks
• Improvement of performance during "Move Nodes" operation
• Compression of XML imports/exports
• Support for PDU format when sending SMS notifications
• Monitoring of the SNMP counter 'Uptime' with snmpChecks
• Option to add a label to SysOrb Domains
• New report type: Text-only report
• "Worst case" availability figure for Domains/Nodes/ Checks in reports

Download SysOrb 2.6.1here!

Updated build for SysOrb 2.6 is now available

March 26th, 2004: Known bugs fixed in build 2638 of SysOrb 2.6:

• When Auto-Discovering existing nodes, existing NetChecks are reset
• The fixed y-axis settings seemed to not work in some cases
• When displaying NodeViews, there were no buttons for short-cuts at the bottom
• Auto-Discovery with SNMP enabled listed all IP's in the range, even unused ones
• Auto-Upgrade of Windows SysOrb Agents didn't work when not on C:\
• Unknown status of some checks, although they actually were OK (green)
• A problem related to cluster recovery (for SysOrb ServerClusters)
• Performance too slow when rescanning the snmpChecks on a node
• Using 'percent' as the unit on Custom AgentChecks did not work
• The report generator could in some cases cause the SysOrb Server to restart
• A deletion of a report selection could return the error message 'unimplemented'

Download SysOrb 2.6 build 2638 here!

SysOrb 2.6 is now available!

January 30th, 2004: New features and improvements:

• Auto-Discovery - scan a given IP range and detect nodes
• NodeClasses - group your nodes across the hierarchy
• Option for moving nodes between SysOrb domains
• More flexible display and setting of real-time graphs
• More flexible setting of alerting options
• More precision in the setting of alert notification
• Links to AgentActions from the Overview section
• Info-box on which user you are currently logged in as
• Check Label - option for adding a text label to each check
• Links to resetting the ScoreKeeper score, and to Unexpected downtime from the Overview section

Download SysOrb 2.6 Here!!

Tip: Integrating to your Help Desk system..

December 16th, 2003: Did you know that you can use the SysOrb e-mail notification for integrating events into your existing Help Desk system?

Read more here!

New service update for SysOrb 2.4.4 available

December 15th, 2003: We have now released build 2481 of SysOrb 2.4.4 that contains a couple of bug fixes from the official SysOrb 2.4.4 release, as well as a number of performance-related improvements.

We recommend upgrading to this new build.

New version: SysOrb 2.4.4

November 24th, 2003: New features and improvements:

• Cumulative accounting checks - e.g. MB's transferred month-to-date etc.
• Custom Alert Path: Command line tool integration
• Comment field on individual checks, for easier identification
• Optional min/max values display on graphs
• Performance improvements
• New SysOrb Agent: Solaris 8/9 for IA32

Download SysOrb 2.4.4 now!

New version: SysOrb 2.4.3

September 26th, 2003: New features and improvements:

• HTTP-content NetCheck - get alerts if the content of your URL changes!
• CSV-file export - for exporting data to external tools
• Various web interface usability improvements
• Important database performance improvements

Download SysOrb 2.4.3 Now!

Tip: Using SysOrb as a 'sub-supplier'

September 5th, 2003: Did you know that you can use SysOrb as a supplier of monitoring for event notification to your existing management framework?

Read more here!

New version: SysOrb 2.4.2

August 27th, 2003:

New version: SysOrb 2.4.1

June 27th, 2003:

• PDA-optimized web interface
• Improved LogCheck feature - consolidate your log file scanning
• Java applet for integrating third-party tools
• Alert acknowledgement option
• Improved Alert messages
• New OS platforms: Solaris 2.6 and Windows 2003/XP

Download SysOrb 2.4.1 now!

SysOrb 2.4 is now available!

April 14th, 2003:

• Enhanced monitoring of Windows servers, through Performance Counters, Event Log, Custom Checks and more...
• New and improved SNMP monitoring
• AgentActions facilitate management
• Enhanced reporting capabilities
• Improved Web User Interface
• New OS platforms: SuSE and Mandrake Linux

Download SysOrb 2.4 now!

SysOrb 2.4 pre-release now available!

March 18th, 2003:

• Enhanced monitoring of Windows servers, through Performance Counters, Event Log, Custom Checks and more...
• New and improved SNMP monitoring
• AgentActions facilitate management
• Enhanced reporting capabilities
• Improved Web User Interface
• New OS platforms: SuSE and Mandrake Linux

Download the pre-release of SysOrb 2.4 here!

SysOrb 2.4 pre-release, known issues

March 11th, 2003:

Known issues in this pre-release:

• The official documentation has not yet been released
• Forecast graphs cannot be viewed
• Reports are very scarce on content, and sending HTML e-mail reports is currently not functional
• Historical data are not properly resynchronized in SysOrb ServerCluster configurations

Download the pre-release of SysOrb 2.4 here!

SysOrb 2.2.1 is now available!

July 5th, 2002: SysOrb 2.2.1 includes the following improvements over SysOrb 2.2:

• Agent for SuSE 7.3
• Agent for Novell NetWare 5.1
• Usability improvements like "copy" configuration from one node to a range of other nodes

Launch of SysOrb 2.2 at CeBIT 2002!

March 6th, 2002: The new SysOrb 2.2 will be launched at the CeBIT 2002 fair in Hannover, Germany. Read the press release for more information on added features.

New release: SysOrb 2.0.1 is out!!

November 6th, 2001: Check out the latest version of the SysOrb Network Monitoring System with Test Drive or download the free 30-day Trial License!
SysOrb 2.0.1 includes new features like:

• Support for SMART IDE disk monitoring.
• Checks of DNS, POP-3, IMAP and FTP
• Support for HP-UX 11 via SysOrb Agent.
• Now also Solaris 8 support on the SysOrb Server.

New company name, design profile and web site!

November 6th, 2001: Our new company name, Evalesco Systems, reflects the dedication of the company. The word "evalesco" is latin and means: To grow strong, to prevail, to have value.

We are dedicated to:

• Delivering substantial value to our customers, assisting them in growing even stronger,
• Providing our employees with an environment that allows them to prevail and grow strong in their careers and their lives in general,
• Further increasing the strength and value of our products through a focused development effort, and
• Establishing strong, valuable partnerships with our customers and partners.

Through our dedication, we shall grow stronger!

To underline this dedication we have implemented a new corporate design profile and web site. If you have any comments on this or other issues, please contact us.

SysOrb 2.0 is finally out.

May 7th, 2001: SysOrb 2.0 is available in the form of build 1184. Main changes since last:

• Linker and compiler induced problems in the RedHat 6.2 server build has been cured
• Solaris 8 on UltraSPARC is now supported (not with the SysOrb Server yet though)
• Various small communication-related bug-fixes in the clients on all architectures
• A very hard to trigger bug that could happen when running servers in a clustered configuration has been fixed
• A few more check types have been added (interface throughput and I/O queue length)

Also, we would like to draw your attention to our License Manager from where you can purchase and download SysOrb licenses to suit your needs.

SysOrb Milestone VIId is released

March 20th, 2001:This release includes the following fixes:

• Fixed the problems with the SysOrb Server refusing connections on
  Linux 2.4 kernels.
• Fixed problem where all the SysOrb Servers could sometimes die during a
  re-synchronization.
• Under very special circumstances the client would refuse to connect to the
  SysOrb Server. This is also fixed.
• The server and client logs have been cleaned up, so less diskspace
  should be required.

SysOrb Milestone VIIc have been released

March 15th, 2001: Changes in this release include:

A possible crash on Windows, especially when running with a lot of clients, have been fixed.

• A socket leak in the clients, when a server was down have been fixed.
• The FreeBSD packing should be very much improved. We've also moved from FreeBSD 3.4 to FreeBSD 3.5,and from FreeBSD-4.0 to FreeBSD-4.2.
• The client uses a lot less diskspace for it's logfiles.
• Other small bugfixes.

SysOrb Milestone VIIb is released

January 29th, 2001: SysOrb Milestone VIIb is released. This version fixes a bug in the Windows version of SysOrb which could cause the server to crash, when deleting a host. It also fixes a small logfile problems on Windows, where entries wasn't appended to the logfile, when the server was restarted.

Milestone VIIa released

January 17th, 2001: The new version of SysOrb is now uploaded to the server. It is Milestone VIIa with the build number 1002 (it still presents itself as Milestone VII).

Milestone VII has been released

January 15th, 2001: This version will hopefully become the final version in a few weeks.

• FreeBSD 4.0 port.
• Improved navigation in the web-interface
• Bugfixes

As this Milestone will probably become the final version, we are very much interested in hearing about bugs and misfeatures.

If you need to test SysOrb in a larger enviroment than the default license allows you, please contact us.

Debian packages available.

October 3rd, 2000: We finally got the Debian-packages building, and they are available from our download section.

Finally, the Milestone V release is ready!

August 14th, 2000: A number of stability and usability problems with the Milestone IV release has been addressed, besides that, the major news in this release are:

* New Web interface
* Client/server mutual authentication

Get missing shared library.

May 30th, 2000: Oops, someone forgot to upload the base shared library for the server / cgi packages for the Linux port :-) Sorry...

On the development side, we are moving towards the Milestone IV release, but there really is a lot of work in getting everything stabilized and in shape for a release. Feature-wise it is looking very promising though. Expect news here again in about a week.

SysOrb Milestone III postponed

April 19th, 2000: We postponed the Milestone III release because we wanted to fix a number of problems and include some specific features.

But now it is here, and you can get it from the download page. We encourage everyone to try out this release and tell us what you think.

There is now some preliminary documentation available as well, and an errata documenting the currently known problems. We will appreciate any feedback we can get on this release.

Work will start on the Milestone IV release as soon as the dust settles from the Milestone III release. The next milestone will feature, among other things,

* Mirroring support for multiple servers / distributed database
* Graphical User Interface, to supplement the Web Interface
* I2C support in the Linux client (for fan speed monitoring etc.)
* A number of fixes to problems mentioned in the errata.

SysOrb Milestone IIIb released

May 10th, 2000: A bugfix release to the MilestoneIII release is out now. It is build 419, or Milestone IIIb.

There is not much new in this release, except quite a few bugfixes and improved debugging capabilities to help us trace bug reports.

The Milestone IV release is progressing nicely, and we look forward to present you with 07.07, GSM 07.05 compliant serial devices.

The linux client can check software RAID devices in addition to fanspeed and temperatures using I2C with lm_sensors. (Requires patch for 2.2 kernels.) This release should be the last before the final release of SysOrb. We will now focus on bugfixing, and the final release should not contain any new features.

SysOrb Milestone II released

March 30th, 2000: Yet another bugfix and feature improvement to the MII release is out.

This time it is MIIc, aka. build 274. This release fixes a bug that could lead to crashes if hosts were removed from the monitoring system. Besides from that, the release includes numerous other bugfixes and the addition of various small features and enhancements.

Development is progressing well on MIII, which we plan to release on April 10th.

SysOrb Milestone II fixes release

March 17th, 2000: There is a bugfix release out for the MII release. This new release has build number 239, and the old plain MII release was Build 225.

This release fixes bugs mainly in the database backend and in the socket handling code for the clients.

We are now beginning work on MIII which will finally add SNMP support to the SysOrb product.

Finally SysOrb Milestone II is out.

March 13th, 2000: After a month of hard work, we are finally ready to present to you, the SysOrb Milestone II Release.

Some major changes have been made in the code, to pave the way for changes that are coming in the next Milestones. The two really big changes in this Milestone are:

• We now have our own database backend
• Most of the server infrastructure has been ported to NT

The new database backend allows searching the device and service histories, and is overall a lot faster than the old backend. Furthermore, it saves you the trouble of installing PostgreSQL if you do not have it on your system already.
We had hoped to have an NT version of the SysOrb Server ready for this release, but this port has been delayed. We hope to have a NT port out in a week or so.