Enhancements and Fixes

This is a major release:

• Added a summary dashboard page that now provides a view of the current state of an organization’s monitored endpoints, with the ability to quickly drill-down to more information as needed.
• Rebuilt the appliance rules. ShadowControl now manages rules via Rules Policies, which permit endpoint status to automatically reset to “Good” when the endpoint is no longer in violation of a rule. This greatly reduces the effort needed to monitor and clear notifications related to rule violations.
• Added additional monitoring and reporting of ImageManager installations, licenses and job status. (Requires ImageManager 6 or newer.)
• Added a Manual option to the Appliance's auto-update feature for those who want to use existing tools to manage the endpoint update process (for v2.0 EndPoints or later).
• Added support for the Windows standard to store ShadowControl program data in the \Program Data folder.
• Added the ability to easily re-subscribe an endpoint to an appliance by preserving one file--MachineID--to retain the EndPoint's history on the appliance for possible reinstall of the ShadowControl agent.
• Added additional ImageManager monitoring to better track replication and verification status.
• Added a Report REST API that lets organizations extract data from the appliance to include in other reporting or monitoring systems.
• Added additional logging to aid in troubleshooting.
• Added a new STCCMD parameter that sets the log level: stccmd settings –l [debug, info, warning, critical]
• Added a new STCCMD parameter that sets the endpoint importance: stccmd settings –g [normal, semi, critical] Introduced a new MSI installer that facilitates bulk installs using scripts.
• Improved the endpoint subscribe/unsubscribe process to help prevent duplicate endpoint entries in the appliance.
• Improved communication allows the appliance to more accurately monitor endpoint state (online vs. unresponsive), and collect more accurate endpoint data. Improved and simplified endpoint data collection to help eliminate excessive resource utilization by the endpoint agent.
• Improved reports, and updated layout to reflect new rules paradigm.
• Improved notifications related to endpoint status changes to make them less “noisy”.
• Fixed an issue where the appliance agent would sometimes become unresponsive.
• Fixed an issue where some users could not apply a custom logo in their email settings.
• Fixed an issue where reports would sometimes incorrectly report the size of backup image files, and storage statistics.
• Fixed issues where the endpoint details page and reports sometimes reports that ShadowProtect is installed when it is not. Fixed an issue where the appliance sometimes displays date/time stamps using the wrong timezone.
• Fixed an issue from CMD 1.3.0 which was missing a manifest file needed to properly install the Virtual C++ runtime components.
• Fixed an issue where the appliance database could grow to sizes over 50MB or more, which in rare cases prevented a restoration of the database.