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Mac Client 5.0.6

What’s with all the “Improved reporting”?  Where we were sending a generic error before, the errors are clearer now. In any case, by the time Watchman Monitoring reported an error, there was a problem with the computer – and we were reporting when work needed to be done!

Watchman Monitoring’s best-in-class reporting is just reporting when there are problems. Systems like FileWave, Absolute Manage, and Jamf’s Casper Suite are there for when a service provider wants to manage the computer.  Watchman Monitoring will never write information to your clients’ computer – but starting with version 5.0.6 we offer a preliminary means of integrating with other full fledged management systems.  Setup an Appointment to learn more, and we’ll post full instructions once this integration is laid out.

  • Feature Preliminary integration with many full management systems.
  • Feature Includes LightSpeed Server serial # for ease of renewal, upgrades, and third party integrations.
  • Change Added clarity in the RAID plugin, when diskutil fails Learn More…
  • Change Automatic Client ID reset when copied to a new computer
  • Change Improved clarity when reporting Time Machine errors
  • Change Would fail to alert when a battery would move to “Check Battery”
  • Change Additional logic when checking for Carbon Copy Cloner status
  • Change Improved reporting when dealing with POST Failures
  • Change Improved reporting when dealing with Hardware RAID Failures
  • Change Improved reporting when dealing with RAM Failures
  • Change No longer sends false warnings on LightSpeed Server v 3.7.  Learn More…

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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…

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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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Apple Business Manager Integration: AppleCare Dates, MDM Enrollment, and the Macs You Aren’t Monitoring

Today’s dashboard update connects Watchman Monitoring to Apple Business Manager and Apple School Manager. Once a connection is in place, the Macs you already monitor pick up their purchase history, AppleCare coverage, and MDM enrollment statedirectly from Apple. No agent update is required, and nothing is installed on the Macs. This is a dashboard feature…

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