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Updated! AutoAck and AutoAckWindow now work with OMW 8.16 and 9!. In Message Management

New! Custom Policy to compare local system time to an authoritative NTP source. In Custom Policies

New! Custom Policy to count the total number of files in multiple directories (Multiplatform as well). In Custom Policies .

New! Custom Policy to check if a group of services is running (multiple services, all must be running). In Custom Policies .

New! Audit tool (ListPolsInGroup.vbs) to list policies in a group, and sub-groups. In Policy Management.

New! Custom Policy to to compare two files for equivalence. In Custom Policies .

New! Custom Policy to detect when a message changes from Critical state to Normal state. In Custom Policies .

New! Custom Policy to monitor the size or a Directory. In Custom Policies .

New! Custom Policy to monitor if a file's time stamp has changed. In Custom Policies .

New! Custom Policy to detect changes to a specified registry key. In Custom Policies .

New! Multi-Platform, filtered, disk-space usage monitor. In Custom Policies .

New! Linux process monitor policy - stores process data in the EPC using top and a nifty(if we don't say so ourselves) perl script. In Custom Policies .

New! Hyperthreaded/Multi-Core/Physical processor inventory stored in EPC on Linux and Windows (Intel x86 -based systems only). In Custom Policies .

Updated! UberConfig - corrects some exceptions in certain runtime environments. In Configuration Tools .

Updated! Adaptive Threshold Policies, version 3! Now improved, with support for multi-instance baselines, as requested by several users. In Custom Policies .

- NEW! PortPing policy. Connects to configured TCP socket and reports if the connection succeeds or fails. In Custom Policies .

- NEW! NodeGrouper - Automatically group nodes into node groups based on service discovery information (IIS servers go to IIS node group, etc). In Automation Tools.

- Updated! ListEvents.exe now handles event log sources with multiple resource dlls. In Policy Development.

- NEW! SNVP Integrations for OVOW. Includes an update to OVSDSync and SNxml2MOF (which will no longer be updated). In the Integrations section.

- NEW! OVOWLoadHosts. Tool to upload nodes in bulk into OVOW, similar to NNM's loadhost tool. In the Integrations section.

- NEW! UberConfig - skip editing the registry, use a UI to configure dbmaint, name resolution cache, and other OVOW configuration settings. In Configuration Tools .

- NEW! Adaptive Threshold Policies. Automatic baseline calculation and alerting. Stop using hardcoded thresholding, start using automated baselines that "learn" what's normal. In Custom Policies .

- NEW! Dell Storage Manager trap policy - Supports newer versions of the Dell OpenManage Storage Management subagent. In Custom Policies .

- NEW! WebCheck - Configurable policy to test URLs and alert when they're not responding. In Custom Policies .

- Updated! MessageFlow test utility, added some better handling for multiprocessor systems.. In Diagnostic Tools.

- NEW! FileCount custom policy, that uses the new 7.5 policy parameter feature for easy configuration. (Limited to windows nodes). In Custom Policies .

- NEW! NNM Process monitor policy. Uses the new 7.5 Service/Process monitor policy type to monitor NNM (on whatever platform you run NNM). In Custom Policies .

- NEW! OVCaRP - Policy Reconciliation utility - compares server (pmad) policy inventory to node (opctemplate) inventory, and tells you about any inconsistencies - with an option to correct them. In Policy Management.

- NEW! ADSNewNode.vbs - detect newly added systems to your AD domain(s) with this script. Helpful for identification of new systems added without proper change control. In Automation Tools.

- NEW! OVOWXmlMessageWriter application. Command line tool intercepts OVO Messages and streams them to XML data files. Connect OVO Messages to any XML data consumer (including ConnectIT/ServiceCenter). In the Integrations section.

- UPDATED! Enhanced OVSdIncidentForwarder configuration to allow for dynamic message parameters to SD import mapping. In the Integrations section.

- UPDATED! Enhanced OVJobUtil to allow for cancellation of all outstanding jobs. In Policy Management.

- UPDATED! CDOSEND improvements. Numerous operational improvements made to CDOSEND. In Notification Tools.

- NEW! Heartbeat Repeat policy - configure your heartbeat polling failure messages to "repeat" themselves so they continually "nag" you. In Custom Policies .

- NEW! snXML2MOF utility - converts OVO-Unix Service Navigator XML files to OVOW MOF files. Use to take output from SNVP, Relicore, etc and import it directly into OVOW's service model. In the Integrations section.

- NEW! OVPolicyReporter Server. Taking Feedback, but its functional (and provides value), so we are making it available now. Requires the .NET runtime and ASP.NET to be installed and running first. In Policy Management.

- NEW! AutoStart Service Monitor - Monitors auto-start services and handles up/down state with message relations. In Custom Policies .

- NEW! Unmanaged Node List script for listing Unmanaged Nodes. In Node Management.

- UPDATED! ListNodes now provides a count of nodes in management server database in its output. In Node Management.

- UPDATED! OVSdIncidentForwarder so you can disable the sending of SD Incidents against the WMI Path (August 16). In the Integrations section.

- UPDATED! OvSDIncidentForwarder now supports the outage node group in OVIOutage. Nodes in the outage group won't get forwarded to OVSD. In the Integrations section.

- UPDATED! Enhanced outage state determination OVIOutage. In Node Management.

- NEW! AutoAck now has a companion tool, AutoAckWindow.exe, which allows for auto-acknowledging message older than a set time, but newer than another set time. In Message Management.

- UPDATED! InOutage now returns a nonzero result code if a node isn't in an outage state. In Node Management.

- UPDATED! PingNodeGroup tool now sends "up" messages, and includes an OPCMsg Policy to start with. In Agentless Monitoring.

- UDATED! FederatedMOM now sends service ID's correctly to higher-level OVO instances. In Manager of Managers (MoM).

- NEW! Liebert UPS SNMP Trap Interceptor. In Custom Policies .

- UPDATED! AutoAck now automatically acknowledges "owned" messages. In Message Management.

- NEW! ReparseMon. Monitors drive space usage on both local drives (C:\, D:\), but also filesystem Reparse points. In Custom Policies .

- UPDATED! OvSdIncidentForwarder. New OpenView Service Desk incident forwarding solution from OVOW. In the Integrations section.

- NEW! OvSdIncidentForwarder. New OpenView Service Desk incident forwarding solution from OVOW. In the Integrations section.

- NEW! SCMPingNodeGroup. Similar to PingNodeGroup, but connects to the Service Control Manager (SCM) and checks the status of the Eventlog service to verify that the node responds to RPC. In Agentless Monitoring.

- NEW! AutoManage Solution. Automatically moves "Unmanaged Nodes with Agents" to "Managed" state, based on Regular Expression Pattern Matches of OS Type, FQDN and IP Address. In Automation Tools.

- NEW! RegPingNodeGroup tool. Similar to PingNodeGroup, but does a registry connection instead of a ping. Handy for detecting hung RPC services. In Agentless Monitoring.

- NEW! PingNodeGroup tool. Pings all the nodes in a specified node group and sends messages if the ping fails. In Agentless Monitoring.

- Updated! ClusterMon formatting changes. In Agentless Monitoring.

- Updated! ShareMapper now works properly with node groups that have less than 5 managed nodes in them. In Agentless Monitoring.

- Updated! ClusterMon now sends messages for resource group moves. In Agentless Monitoring.

- NEW! OVOWService command line tool to build OVOW Service Maps. In Automation Tools.

- NEW! OVJobUtil command line tool to list/restart failed jobs. In Policy Management.

- NEW! DeploymentVerify tool and associated whitepaper explaining policy auto-deployment within OVOW. DeploymentVerify checks to make sure all associated (assigned) policies are deployed. Also check to make sure unassigned policies are not deployed. In Policy Management.


- Updated: ShareMapper tool enhanced to handle 100’s of remote shares in the configuration file. In Policy Development.


- NEW! Cascading OVO-Unix Service Maps tool, similar to Federated MOM, but for OVO-Unix. In Manager of Managers (MoM).


- NEW! Stateful Microsoft Cluster Monitor tool. Monitors MSCS clusters and sends OV Messages to OVO whenever a resource or resource group status changes or moves. In Policy Development.


- NEW! OVMessageWeb Web Service. Send Messages via a SOAP or HTTP POST from anywhere to your OVO Server. In .NET Development.
- NEW! SQL Server Log Monitor tool. Reads SQL Server Log File, and sends log entries to OpCMsg. In Policy Development.
- NEW! Policy Inventory Script that lists all nodes and all policies installed (and version) to each node. In Policy Management.


- NEW! ShareMapper remote share mapping tool. Connects to remote shares to test connectivity, response time and speed. In Policy Development.
- NEW! HungProcess detection. Enumerates processes on windows boxes, and detects ones that are "not responding". In Policy Development.
- NEW! OVServiceModify, a .NET managed code assembly to manipulate the OVOW service map programmatically. In .NET Development
- NEW! OVService webservice. Manipulate the OVOW service map programmatically through SOAP. In .NET Development
- NEW! Scheduled, Multi-Process Status monitoring policy for Windows. In Custom Policies .
- NEW! SQL Server Database Space Monitor. In Custom Policies .


- NEW! Policy Audit Trail Reporter. Report all policies on your management server, all versions, who modified them, when they were modified, and what nodes they're currently deployed to. In Policy Management.
- UPDATED: OVIOutage in Node Management. Application now utilizes a dynamic thread pool to increase performance.
- UPDATED: MessageForwarding in MoM Tools. Application now utilizes a dynamic thread pool to increase performance.
- UPDATED! AgentTest to only warn on drive mapping failures. In Diagnostic Tools.


- UPDATED! ClusterXML to correct a setting in MSSQL Clusters. Update in Node Management.


- NEW! OVBootup.vbs in Node Management. Cleans an existing OVOW agent up when a node is sysprepped or renamed. Useful when using ADS, RDP or BXP to provision nodes on the fly, with the agent pre-installed.


- NEW! RestartAgent.vbs in Node Management. Restart a remote OVOW agent using the new opcragt mechanism, but this uses the node ID rather than the dns name of the remote node, for use with WMI policies.


- NEW! ProcessCreate policy, uses WMI "Polling" to query the Win32_Process table for new processes within 30 second intervals. The sample is configured to detect the creation of notepad.exe. In Custom Policies .


- New FileListExt.vbs, lists files by extension in a given folder for use in log file policies. In Policy Development.
- Updated FileList.vbs. In Policy Development.


- NEW! FindFiles Policy. Search a folder for files with a configured extension - if files exist, a message is sent to the browser. When the files are removed, the message is automatically acknowledged. In Custom Policies .


- NEW! MessageFlow diagnostic tool. Test sending of messages to the management server from an agent - and how long they take to show up in the active browser. In Diagnostic Tools.


- UPDATED: CDOSend. All we have to say is "Doh!" Now it really, honestly, does suppress outage nodes. We had simply "optimized" the change right out of the April 29th version. Thanks to SteveF for pointing this out! In Notification Tools.


- NEW! Network Node Manager on HP-UX and Solaris Integration package available in the Integrations section.


- NEW! Federated Manager of Managers has arrived. This allows for forwarding of *just* status changes to higher level managers, notification systems, or help desks. The solution does on-the-fly root-cause analysis. In MoM Tools.
- UPDATED! AutoAck.exe now handles large message volumes better. Strongly suggested that this version be used. In Message Management.
- NEW! GetInstructions.vbs. Downloads all of the instruction text into an OpCMsg template that can be uploaded to OVO-Unix. Used for message forwarding with OVO-Unix. In MoM Tools.


- UPDATED! CDOSend. Now you can override node-group lookup, and specify mail recipients on the command line. Also works with OVIOutage - mail will not be sent for nodes in the outage group. In Notification Tools.


- UPDATED! Disk Space reports to handle disks with invalid sizes.. In Custom Reports.
- NEW! getnodeid.vbs added. Script that returns the node ID (GUID) for a given hostname (primarynodename). In Node Management.


- UPDATED! autoack.exe now has a second parameter, an extended WQL query clause that lets you selectively acknowledge events based on severity, application, object, messagegroup, etc. In Message Management.
- NEW! getnode.vbs added. Script that returns the node hostname for a nodeid. In Node Management.
- NEW! Brocade Trap Interceptor Policies in Custom Policies


- NEW! Script to get Annotations from an OpenView Message, and print them out. In Message Management.


- NEW! NetApp Appliance Trap Interceptor in Custom Policies
- UPDATED! CreateSNMP.exe command line bug with invalid node group corrected. In Node Management.


- NEW! TidyScript script simulator for OVOW! Use this tool to test your complex script policies before you deploy them! In Policy Development.

- UPDATED! Disk Space reports enhanced based on user feedback. In Custom Reports.


- NEW! AutoAck application. This compiled executable performs a similar role as the older (now removed) autoack.vbs. In Message Management.


- NEW! ListEvents package, in Policy Development. Helps to build more robust Event Log policies. This tool lists all *possible* events for a given event log source to a text stream that can then be uploaded as an Event Log Policy. Document in the zip file describes its use.


- NEW! Custom Disk Space reports that utilize the EPC (Coda) FS_ object. Extends Reporter or Reporter Lite with a new set of custom reports useful for reporting the top disk space usage across all of your servers. In Custom Reports.


- Updated OVIOutage so that an OpC message is sent when a node is removed from the outage group using DelOutage.exe. In Node Management.


- Added new version of CreateSNMP that handles custom node group membership. See the readme for details. In Node Management.


- NEW - Message Forwarding/Synchronization manager in MoM Tools.
- UPDATED - OVIOutage now has an integrated MSI based installer, with full install/remove capabilities. In Node Management.


- Added OvExchStores.vbs to the policy development area for external monitor use in OVOU.
- Added .NET managed assembly to call the OpenView Agent API from within your .NET and ASP.NET applications. Use this assembly to submit messages and monitor data to the OpenView agent directly from your managed code. In .NET Development.


- Added new script to the Policy Management script archive - DeployInst.vbs. Use this to deploy instrumentation folders to nodes.


- OVIOutage is here. You've probably wondered where we have been. A native windows service, based on .NET runtime, that manages messages from nodes that are in Outage state. If a node is in outage, all incoming messages from that node (or nodes) are reclassified and acknowledged automatically. This solution integrates in with the other OVI solutions that can include/exclude node groups with notifications... (hint, hint - there's more to come in this area). You control the outage state of nodes with simple command line utilities. In Node Management.
- Added several new scripts and policies - a new dynamic logfile date script in Policy Development, and a new policy to detect Heartbeat Polling events (and gives you a mechanism to build actions for them) in Custom Policies.

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