B*Nator 2.1.8 (2007-12-21)
Hot fix:
- Reload Traffic Push: B*Nator Traffic Info Channel has been
reloaded from the B*Nator server. Now the pushed page is used to show
the B*Nator Traffic information on the device. /XPl 3958
- Navigation Update Problem fixed: The navigation was reloaded, although a reload request was already active. /XPl 4082
- Improved database connection handling
B*Nator 2.1.7 (2007-11-27)
New functionality:
- Support for GroupWise Blackberry User Administration Service added./XPl 3412
Hot fix:
- MS SQL Information has been fixed and shows up detailed information about software version on the corresponding MS SQL Server page. /XPl 2961
- List of Services on the Server detail pages are now sorted alphabetically. /XPl 2964
- Fixed an issue when trying to delete BES SQL Servers with BES user groups still referring to these SQL Servers. /XPl 2967
B*Nator 2.1.6 (2007-09-26)
Hot fix:
- LDAP search in Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 did not show any results, now it does. /XPl 1621
- http properties for Java configuration in B*Nator properties file will now stay the same after an update. /XPl 1620
- B*Nator Traffic Push gets lost after deletion of device cache.
Now a URL is added to B*Nator traffic push, to reload traffic
information on request. Therefore the URL of mobile B*Nator user self
service has to be added in B*Nator menu Administration/Settings. /XPl
1954
B*Nator 2.1.5 (2007-08-15)
New functionality:
- Sending notifications for failed Enterprise Activation can be deactivated in B*Nator menu Administration/settings/send EA problem notifications. /XPl 1513
- Search BlackBerry users by IMEI in B*Nator menu BES users/search is now available. /XPl 1442
Hot fix:
- Memory usage of B*Nator modules MailboxinformationMonitor and HostMonitor reduced. /XPl 1443
- Operating speed of B*Nator module AgentLogParser increased,
so that this module is able to parse the log entries that are produced,
in time to the B*Nator Server. With this option on the B*Nator web
interface the recent BES log entries are displayed. /XPl 1445
- Enhancement of user search for Domino Users: Username and email address are not case sensitive anymore. /XPl 1508
- Memory usage improved and operating speed increased of B*Nator module BESDBParser to avoid out of memory errors. /XPl 1509
- User mailboxes that are bigger than 2 GB will now be displayed with correct mailbox size. /XPl 1511
- Avoiding Exception in B*Nator module AgentLogParser, during message tracking process, caused by unknown format of date in the BES log entries. /XPl 1514
- Problem in B*Nator module AgentLogParser, while processing log lines about Enterprise Activation, is now fixed. /XPl 1515
- Avoiding exceptions for entries of non existing BES in BES Mgmt table MDSConfig. /XPl 1516
- Permission for B*Nator user to view BlackBerry VIP users is now fixed. A B*Nator user that is not allowed to view VIP user will not see VIP users in the BlackBerry user lists of B*Nator anymore. /XPl 1517
- Enhancement of LDAP search for Domino users. Now LDAP search is possible for different LDAP types. In B*Nator menu BES user/add user the search results are displayed with display name and user name. /XPl 1618
- Avoiding exceptions in B*Nator module AgentLogParser for users that have a ‘ in their name. /XPl 1619
B*Nator 2.1.4 (2007-07-25)
New functionality:
- The list of servers in B*Nator menu/BES user/Add user is now sorted alphabetically. /XPl882
- New Domino Mail Servers will now automatically get a Server Host assigned. No need to add the IP address manually. 0000283/XPl886
Hot fix:
- Sending Notifications for Enterprise Activation failed . Now notification for a failed Enterprise Activation will only be sent once. /XPl1126
- The file NCSO.jar for Domino environments has not been automatically moved back from the backup folder after an update of B*Nator, now fixed. /XPl889
- Bug in B*Nator Module BES Database Parser fixed: users have been marked as deleted, even if they exit in the BES Database. /XPl
B*Nator 2.1.3 (2007-07-11)
New functionality:
- BES log files that are not stored in daily created folders, can now also be accessed by B*Nator agent. 0000305
Hot fix:
- Information about successful or failed Enterprise Activation is displayed on users’ detail page with additional information about last executed action. 0000486
- Hosts without servers will now be displayed in B*Nator menu/Administration/hosts. Now those hosts without servers can be edited or deleted in B*Nator. 0000562
B*Nator 2.1.2 (2007-06-26)
New functionality:
- B*Nator Users are now able to change their own B*Nator user password. 0000527
- Global BES Charts for user count, forwarded messages, sent messages for all BlackBerry Enterpriser Servers in the monitored environment. 0000434
- Alphabetically order of servers in server overview and for global BES Charts. 0000546
- Alphabetically order of servers in Navigation bar. 0000545
- Subject heading for B*Nator notifications with server name. 0000365
- Charts can also be displayed as a table in addition to existing pie charts. 0000385
- Alphabetically order of email domains in B*Nator menu/BES users/all users. 0000535
Hot fix:
- Non working B*Nator agents will now be detected within 5 Minutes and a notification will be send, if an agent does not respond for 10 Minutes. 0000559
- SRP connection: downtime is now displayed correctly, uptime is no longer displayed. 0000419
- SQL Connection problems are now fixed. 0000553
- Notifications for failed Enterprise Activations will be sent. 0000543
- Message- and traffic charts have not been displayed
correctly for a selected time frame of a billing month, in case there
were data missing in B*Nator data base. Both charts have not been reset
to zero at the beginning of a new billing month. Now fixed. 0000534
B*Nator 2.1.1 (2007-05-30)
New functionality:
- Option to disable B*Nator gathering information via SNMP service in B*Nator menu Administration/Settings/edit host/checkbox
to deactivate SNMP monitoring. SNMP service is activated by default. In
case there is knowingly no SNMP service installed on the appropriate
server and the checkbox is marked deactivated, the status information
about SNMP service will no longer be displayed on the detail page of
the respective servers. 0000526
- B*Nator Traffic Limit can be deactivated by setting traffic limit to “0”, which means “no traffic limit” in B*Nator menu Administration/Settings/traffic parameters. 0000530
- Option to enable or disable traffic limit warnings: Sending of traffic limit warnings to users can be enabled or disabled in B*Nator menu Administration/Settings/traffic parameters. With this option the sending of notifications to BlackBerry users and B*Nator Administrators are separated. 0000529.
Hot fix:
- Stopped B*Nator modules will be restarted automatically after a problem in module manager occurred. 0000533
B*Nator 2.1.0 (2007-05-16)
New functionality:
- Restart Apache Tomcat and B*Nator monitor service via Button on request after an update. 0000115
- Day of month as start of billing month can be set for every
single user. Traffic and message chart information on users detail page
will be set to 0 at the beginning of the billing month. 0000215
- SQL version information is displayed on SQL server detail
page and added to BES information form for RIM escalation report:
hostname, database name, version, date of creation. 0000257
- Free configuration of BES detail page: the column where an information block on the BES Detail page should appear can be configured in menu B*Nator Administration/BES detail page 0000269
- Settings for Active directory can be set in menu B*Nator Administration/Active Directory:
host, port, namespace, account, password and domain. The Active
Directory information is necessary to log in to B*Nator
UserSelfService. 0000294
- Adapt B*Nator for Domino Servers: Additional information is
requested via DIIOP and B*Nator UserSelfService uses DIIOP interface
for login. The B*Nator menu Administration/Hosts has been expanded to
DIIOP-Settings for Domino servers. 0000299
- Domino Parser: adapt and expand database and web interface to display additional information about domino servers. 0000300
- B*Nator UserSelfService: Log in for every single BlackBerry
user via web front end to view information and administrate his own
BlackBerry account, as far as the permissions are set by the B*Nator
administrator. Log in via Windows account and Active directory for
Microsoft Exchange Server or via Domino account and DIIOP interface for
Domino servers. 0000306
- B*Nator UserSelfService available via BlackBerry handheld: at the bottom of the B*Nator traffic push page: link to B*Nator UserSelfService. 0000474
- B*Nator Agent - automatically update service: After manually
installing B*Nator monitor and agents version 2.1, all further updates
of B*Nator agents will be executed automatically after B*Nator monitor
has been updated. 0000334
- BlackBerry Enterprise Server Groups: additional User list of
BlackBerry users sorted by their BlackBerry Enterprise Server group.
Information about BES group is also displayed on BlackBerry users
detail page. There also the BlackBerry user group of this user can be
changed. 0000341
- Suggestion of installation path for B*Nator depending on the
language of operating System. German: C:\programme\bnator\; English:
C:\program files\bnator\.0000395
- User administration: Set Enterprise Activation password enhanced by expiry time of password on BES user detail page. 0000399
- Server downtimes can be deleted in the list of downtimes to adjust the downtimes in the SLA report. 0000426
- User language for BlackBerry users can be set to default
language for every user or individually for a single user. Language can
be chosen between English and German. Additionally all users can be
reset to standard language in B*Nator menu Administration/Settings.
0000427
- OutOfCoverage information also on users detail page: Status light indicates, if last contact time exceeds the “minimum minutes out of coverage” that can be defined in B*Nator Administration menu /Settings /out of coverage parameters. 0000438
- Telephone book: Telephone number of users is added to BES user list of all users. 0000469
- Global charts for all BlackBerry Enterprise Servers: user count, sent messages, forwarded messages. 0000496
- Option to disable B*Nator gathering information via WMI service in
B*Nator menu Administration /Settings /edit host/ checkbox to
deactivate WMI monitoring. WMI service is activated by default. In case
there is knowingly no WMI service installed on the appropriate server
and the checkbox is marked as deactivated, the status information about
WMI service will no longer be displayed on the detail page of the
respective servers. 0000515
- CSV export: Option to export all BES user lists to .csv files with one click on a button. 0000147
- FailOver: option on BES detail page to move BlackBerry users
from first to second BES in case they both access the same BES data
base. This option is only visible for a BES, if there is at least a
second BES in the environment that accesses the same database as the
first one. If there is three or more BES that access the same data
base, the target BES can be chosen from a list of available BES. 0000203
- Application Module - Live Communication Server: Monitoring of Server and services. 0000468
- General host information: name, OS version, B*Nator Agent
version, last contact time to B*Nator-Agent, IP-adress, status of WMI
service, average ping time and total downtime.
- Monitoring of Services: Live Communications Server.
- Monitoring of free disk capacity on hard disks: free/total disk space.
- Application Module - Idokorro Mobile Admin: Monitoring of Server and services: 0000337
- General host information: name, OS version, B*Nator Agent
version, last contact time to B*Nator-Agent, IP-adress, status of WMI
service, average ping time and total downtime.
- Idokorro information: serial number, version number, number
of users (link to access user list with usernames), number of managed
hosts/number of available hosts (link to host list with host names).
- Monitoring of Services: Idokorro Mobile Admin, Idokorro Controller Service.
- Monitoring of free disk capacity on hard disks: free/total disk space.
- log entries: log file contains information about username
of Idokorro User, hostname of host managed via Idokorro, BES user name
of Idokorro user, name of managed service and log entry text
Hot fix:
- Page numbers added for multi-page pdf-reports in footer of document. 0000004
- Units on charts have been adapted and added, where they were missing. 0000076
- Adapt list of servers in navigation bar to users’ permission: all servers, that the user is not allowed to view, appear in light grey and they are not clickable. 0000252
- Reporting with only one BES available adapted to fixed choice of BES and option „full report” has been removed. 0000295
- Services that were deleted from a host have not been deleted
from the B*Nator database. As long as this service is marked as a
needed service, the status of this service will be set to “missing” and
a red light indicates the problem. When the service ought to be
deleted, the property needed service has to be disabled. 0000374
- Incomplete mail server configuration for Domino mail servers: empty fields will not be displayed anymore. 0000382
- Adjust time space for traffic and message charts on user detail page: the last 30 days will be displayed by default. 0000406
- Navigation bar is reloaded automatically every 10 seconds, but not the whole page. 0000444
- BlackBerry Enterprise Server reports for B*Nator users with
permissions on certain servers now only can select the BES servers from
a list of the servers he is allowed to see. Other servers will not
appear in that list. 0000450
- Users detail page of BlackBerry users is now also available for B*Nator first level users. 0000455
- Message Tracking is now also available for B*Nator first level users, in case the B*Nator administrator has activated this option in B*Nator Administration menu /Settings /first level users are allowed to... 0000460
- WMI and SNMP status lights are now yellow, in case these services are not configured. They have been red before in this case. 0000478
- Manually adding mail servers is now possible, even if there
are no BlackBerry users on the mail server. With this option further
mail serves can be monitored by B*Nator. 0000482
- Additional Information on BlackBerry users detail page: name of BlackBerry Enterprise Server and mail server are displayed. 0000487
- Status of B*Nator modules is now displayed in detail: missing, scheduled, sleeping, stopped and working. 0000504
- B*Nator module Maintainer will be started automatically
after longer downtime of B*Nator monitor server to collect queued
information and keep B*Nator monitor running accurately although
B*Nator Maintainer is never running at predefined time at 3:00 am.
0000513
- Improved Out of Coverage Reporting: Name of home network is now listed in ascending order. 0000497
- PDF report in BES user menu/all users: only the first page
has been displayed in the document, even if it was a multi-page
document. Now all pages will be displayed. 0000498
- BES User Detail page: modules and applications sometimes
appeared several times with the same version number in the list of
installed modules or installed applications. Now this won’t happen
again. 0000326