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Mac Client 6.1.1 – Immediate Offline Mount reporting, new PreferencePane

Features

  • Notification of offline volumes within moments (Especially targeted to Xsan volumes on clients)
  • Updated for Genieo v2 (Malware Tests)
  • Added more Spigot components (Malware Tests)
  • Added JollyWallet (Malware Tests)
  • Added PremierOption (Malware Tests)
  • Warns when the Ask toolbar is installed
  • New PreferencePane (notes below)
  • Added percent of battery capacity warnings.

Changes

  • Improvements in Daylite Server backup monitoring
  • Minor improvements in JAMF Binary status reporting
  • Always indicate when Apple RAID Cards are rebuilding

Bug fixes

  • Improperly notified that Time Machine was unable to back up, when it was disabled
  • Improvements to CrashPlan backup monitoring.
  • Improvements to BackupMinder reporting.

PreferencePane Updates

  • PreferencePane allows for the removal of old Volume entries
  • Updates to allow proper spacing in OS X 10.10
  • Check for Updates button allows multiple checks
  • Fixed aliasing issue when clicking the PreferencePane icon
  • Updates volume monitoring interface, allows for notification of volumes
  • PreferencePane properly lists Xsan volumes, allows for notification in as little as 1 minute if they go offline.

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Linux Client

Linux Agent Now Available for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS

The Watchman Monitoring Linux agent now installs on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. Packages for both amd64 and arm64 are in our apt repository, using the same install command you already use for 22.04 and 24.04.

ChromeOS MonitoringDashboardLinux ClientMac ClientWindows Client

Monitoring Policies: Control Plugin Alerts Fleet-Wide

Today’s dashboard update adds Monitoring Policies: a named, reusable answer to the question “how should this plugin notify us?”, applied to as many computers as you like. No agent update is required. This is a server-side dashboard feature, and nothing changes until you apply a Policy. Every computer starts with no Policy, which behaves exactly…

Dashboard

Apple Business Manager Integration Improvements

Ten days ago we connected Watchman Monitoring to Apple Business Manager and Apple School Manager. Today’s dashboard update is the follow-up pass: the lists now show you every Mac instead of a sample, and the tables sort. Both Mac lists are paginated instead of truncating The enriched list and the “no agent installed” list each showed…

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