Lansweeper 4.1 RC 1(updated 27/01)

[Hemoco]

Beta testing is closed!

Please post problems and bugs in this forum.

Changes (27/01)
-Fixed https security warning in IE.
-Several small lsmanage.exe bugs fixed.
-Fixed toner reports.
-Fixed "scan now" button for devices with an empty scan server.
-Fixed several small installer issues.

Changes (19/01)
-Added chrome plugin installation to installer.
-Manual plugin install: http://www.lansweeper.com/kb/custom-actions-in-chrome.aspx
-Fixed a problem with wrong eventlog dates in some time zones.
-Fixed a timeout problem in the configuration tool.

Changes (13/01)
-Fixed a problem which caused the CPU to take 100% when doing IP range scanning
-Fixed IP scans that hung on FTP/HTTP scanning
-Fixed several installer bugs
-Installer can now run on workgroup computers with empty passwords.
-Fixed time-out issue on event viewer web page.
-Increased scanning aborted from 30 to 60 minutes.
-Fixed crashing of lsmanage.exe when browsing for OU's.
-Fixed several small bugs in lsmanage.exe.
-Fixed "Mailing Operator '=' is not defined" problem when upgrading.
-Fixed "Row cannot be located for updating" problem.
-Fixed: Computers not being reset to active.
-Added "configuration summary" to web interface, this can detect some common configuration issues.
-Fixed a problem with duplicate eventlog records when servers are in different time zones.
-Fixed: lsclient does not save logon history.
-Several small bugfixes in the web interface.
-Updated database documentation.


What's new (29/11)

Updated documentation

Service
-New and faster scan engine (less database hits)
-File scanning now scans files last changed dates
-Printer toner volume, printed pages, serial number scanning
-Optional Success and Information eventlog scanning & reporting
-IPnumeric: numeric ip address field which can be used for report sorting
-Support for %programfiles(x86)% in file scanning
-Active scanning for workgroups

Configuration tool
-New design
-Support for antivirus reports
-Batch rescan computers & devices
-New cleanup option: remove disabled users
-New cleanup option: remove or make non-active disabled computers
-Support for SMTP server authentication
-Support for grouping by ip range (IP locations)

Web interface
-Computer & Device hover box
-Lasttried field added to computer scanning.
-Rescan & Full scan computers & devices from the actions page
-Rescan and full rescan buttons for all computers in a report
-Full history timeline of changes
-Timeline of changes per computer
-SMBIOSAssetTag search
-added {mac} as a device action parameter
-Added support for yyyy-mm-dd date format
-Ip Location naming based on subnets

New reports
-List of all software applications installed on each computer
-All workstations with anti-virus software
-All servers with anti-virus
-All workstations without anti-virus software
-All servers without anti-virus software
-Software changes in the last 24 hours
-Software changes in the last 7 days
-Servers by type (enterprise,R2,...)
-Computers by install date
-Computer: New computers found in the last 7 days
-Computer: New computers found in the last 24 hours
-Device: New devices found in the last 7 days
-Device: New devices found in the last 24 hours
-Computer: IP Address list
-Device: IP Address list
-Device: Printer status
-Device: Printer out of toner
-Device: Printer Toner level
-Device: Printer almost out of toner
-Computer: Memory changes
-IP Location: IP Address list
-Services: Non standard accounts
-Users: All user pictures

[Hemoco]

blackg wrote:

Faulting application Lansweeperservice.exe, version 4.1.0.1, time stamp 0x4cf3846a, faulting module ntdll.dll, version 6.0.6002.18005, time stamp 0x49e0421d, exception code 0xc0000374, fault offset 0x00000000000aef37, process id 0xb5c, application start time 0x01cbada65ee7c77a.

Can you post the last part of the errorlog.txt file right before the crash please.

[Ingraham2]

Upgraded from 4.X (second last prod version) to the Beta. My Lansweeper Service kept failing. I am running on Windows 2008 server and have a SQL 2008 x64 database on a separate server.

The upgrade went great.

2 issues though.

1) Over the Holidays the Service stopped and I have set the configuration to mark computers as inactive after 14 days. My entire site went inactive. After the upgrade the scanning logs show it is re-activating the PC's but it is not showing in the summary on the main Dashboard. Therfore all my info is on the 630 or so machines that are active..the remaining 5000+ don't show in the reports etc.

2) The lansweeper service constantly crashes. I have set the service recovery to restart but not a good solution.

Going to reboot the server (although was not required after upgrade) and will report back.


P.S. I noticed in the log that it cancelled a scan after 30 minutes. Can that be changed? If It can't scan a machine in 5-10 minutes, move on. 🙂

Thanks

[Hemoco]

blackg wrote:

1) Over the Holidays the Service stopped and I have set the configuration to mark computers as inactive after 14 days. My entire site went inactive. After the upgrade the scanning logs show it is re-activating the PC's but it is not showing in the summary on the main Dashboard. Therfore all my info is on the 630 or so machines that are active..the remaining 5000+ don't show in the reports etc.

Problem confirmed: the "make active" is not always working, will be in the next update (soon)

[Hemoco]

2) The lansweeper service constantly crashes. I have set the service recovery to restart but not a good solution.

Do you have an error in event viewer about the crash (or in the errorlog.txt file)?
Is the scanning server a windows 2008 R2 server?

P.S. I noticed in the log that it cancelled a scan after 30 minutes. Can that be changed? If It can't scan a machine in 5-10 minutes, move on. 🙂

There is another thread asking to increase the time to 60 minutes.

[Anonymous]

I've sent you the log files.

I would say I'm quite impressed with the overall of the features added if I didn't know your great job since I started using Lansweeper! Really great work!!

[Hemoco]

Can you mail us your install.log file please.

[Anonymous]

No.

[Hemoco]

Did the service detect the previous version and asked to upgrade?

2) this is a bug and must be fixed.

[Anonymous]

Great new features! Until now everything looks stable.

I've installed the webserver part in a virtual machine and copied the files from there to my current IIS server directory.

[Anonymous]

Just a few thoughts during my upgrade:
1 - the password stored in the file "Lansweeperservice.exe.config" is reset so the service won't start properly until I re-set it manually
2 - I have a Webserver where I have the service, I'm prompted for the IP scan, since I only install the web part, this does not make sense. I was not prompted for this on the Service installation part.
3 - I just want to upgrade the files structure and do not mess with IIS pools or IIs, so this is not ideal for me. Can you add an option "copy web structure to directory" or something similar?