Log Reader with Monitoring and Alerting Capability

EventMeister Release History

For Windows XP, NT, 2000, 2003 & Vista
Version
Release Date
Description
EventMeister v3.0.1
28th April 2008
- Raised cap on notification sensitivity from 10 to 70
- Updated installer (some improvements for Vista)
EventMeister v3.0
20th February 2008
- Custom reports / Custom Outputting and Archiving Formats
- Option to Run script, batch file or executable when scheduled report or data archive is generated.
- Bulk event feed creation from an external file
- Action notifications improved - now has Run As... to launch command under specific account
- Field substitution in action notifications
- Improved aggregate definition user interface
- Hierarchical display and navigation of feed groupings
EventMeister v2.6.2
19th April 2007
- Added ability to change the text that is used to assign icons to event types.
- Improved compatibility with hardware DEP on Vista.
EventMeister v2.6.1
20th February 2007
- Changes to ensure correct icon used for German event log entries.
- Compatibility fix for certain CA products.
Event Meister v2.6
1st Dec 2006
- Vista compatibility. Please see the Troubleshooting section in the help for additional configuration steps if you are attempting to retrieve event log data from a remote Vista PC (i.e. a PC other othan the one running EventMeister).
- "Catch events as they arrive" is now the default event log retrieval method. In most cases it has the least cpu and network load.
- Added new filter rule, allowing construction of notifications and filters that require a date/time to be within the last X hours or days.
EventMeister v2.5.5
20th Sept 2006
NOTE: This release changes the format of the Notifications.dat file. We recommend that existing users take a backup of that file prior to upgrading. For more information on taking backups, please see the Help.

- Notifications can now fire when new items have not been seen within a certain time period, e.g. if a service indicates a healthy state by issuing regular information events, you can now be alerted when such events have ceased to appear.
- Fix: Prevented rapid-fire poll failure notfications for event log feeds using "catch events as they arrive" method
- Changes to help ensure correct app/svc synchronization at registration time

EventMeister v2.5.1
12th Aug 2006
- Added ability to insert placeholders for feed name, computer name etc. directly into the subject line of emailed notifications. The placeholders are replaced with the appropriate value when the email is sent.
EventMeister v2.5
29th June 2006
- Added ability to set notification assignments while creating new feeds and editing exiting feeds
- Can now force all displays and reports to use 24hr format (Configure menu)
EventMeister v2.4.1.0
2nd May 2006
Fix: Changes to ensure that the service's copy of the aggregate feed definition is always up-to-date.
EventMeister v2.4.0.0
12th April 2006

- Major changes to make filtering and notification rules more powerful and flexible
- Improvements made to reduce memory usage when handling logs that receive new items very frequently

NOTE: This version changes the format for feed definitions. Please take a backup of your existing definitions prior to installing this update - instructions on how to do this are in the Help - see the section entitled "Backing up and Transferring Settings".

EventMeister v2.3.5.0
13th January 2006
- Improved date store file handling
- Improved interface for aggregate feed creation. It's now possible to select multiple feeds to populate the aggregate definition more quickly.
- Assorted UI improvements
EventMeister v2.3.0.0
30th October 2005
- Added facility for quickly copying settings from one feed to many others.
- Now preserves German "umlaut" and other language-specific characters
EventMeister v2.2.0.0
20th September 2005

- Added automated report generation for feeds. This is available only for licensed copies of the application.
- Improved automated feed compaction
- Improved scrolling behavior in filter dialogs

EventMeister v2.1.7.0
3rd August 2005

- Tray icon now automatically re-instates itself if Explorer is restarted.
- Cosmetic changes

EventMeister v2.1.6.0
28th May 2005
- Added support for non-standard characters in connection passwords
- Improved validation for regular expressions.
EventMeister v2.1.5.0
30th April 2005
- Added new dialog for viewing all fields of a single item, similar to
Event Viewer's properties dialog.
- Added presentation of login credentials for notifications that write
to network shares/drives
- Added the ability to store the data folder in custom location - see
section of the Help titled "Backing Up & Transferring Settings" for details
- Improved handling of damaged data stores
- Reduced cpu utilization in front-end app for "catch events as they
arrive" feeds
EventMeister v2.1.0.0
31st March 2005
- User-defined grouping of feeds, with group enable/disable.
- Logs produced by notifications can be emailed automatically according
to user-defined schedule. XML logs can be converted to HTML report
format if required.
- XML type added for logs produced by notifications
- Duplicate facility for Notifications
- Full control over the text in email notifications (better for those
using an email-to-SMS service)
- Ability to easily transfer view settings (column selection, width
ordering and filtering) to multiple compatible feeds.
EventMeister v2.0.1.1
7th March 2005
- Fixed non-scrolling event log selection tree.
- List control displaying available computers now holds its current
scroll position during network enumeration
EventMeister v2.0.1.0
16th February 2005
- Installer now accepts domain accounts, as long as they're members of the local Administrators group.
- If the front-end application is launched under a different account from the service, a warning message will be displayed.
- Event Log Feed wizard now allows multiple feeds to be created in a single pass.
- WMI connection settings adjusted to improve compatiblity with domains containing XP/2003 computers.
EventMeister v2.0.0.0
23rd January 2005
- Option to run as a service.
- Configuration options for optimizing EventMeister for various server conditions (Previously optimized for servers with small to medium sized Event logs)
EventMeister v1.1.0.4
28th November 2004

- Fix to ensure that icons are retained when installation is moved to different PC or a different account on the same PC
- Adaptive timeout in Event Log Wizard when determining available log
- Added minimize to / restore from tray animation

EventMeister v1.1.0.3
19th October 2004
- Self-tuning timeout used to prevent intermittent poll failure on slow PCs/large event logs.
- Status bar feedback improved. Installer includes latest version of gdiplus.dll from Microsoft to counter jpeg vulnerability (Microsoft Security Bulletin MS04-028)
EventMeister v1.1.0.2
23rd August 2004
- Some changes made to WMI connection parameters to work around problems reading event logs on some Win 2000 server installations
EventMeister v1.1.0.0
10th August 2004
- First Public Release

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