Known Problems

EventSentry Patch Download

The following problems are known problems with the latest official release (v2.91). You are encouraged to update to the latest build (2.91.0.86) at your earliest convenience.

Patches are always incorporated into the latest installer, as such you do not have to apply a patch if you have just downloaded the latest installer.

Please note that this patch only applies to 2.91 level releases.

• Download EventSentry_Patch_v291n.exe (Installation Instructions)
  
  SHA-256 Checksum : 91A6783704BDB37F1BB1201CBE6E27A70C1911C819443AE6949F1C1FF9B7258E

• Management Console would not start on Windows 2000
  
• EventSentry agent would not accept evaluation licenses on Windows 2008 and higher
  
• Computers with maintenance schedules would be skipped with remote update
  
• If a service is removed during a reboot and service monitoring is configured to write to a database, then EventSentry service could crash
  
• The EventSentry agent would crash on some systems processing a large number of events
  
• The EventSentry agent would not start one some systems when H/W inventory was configured
  
• Creating user accounts with passwords linked to Active Directory could result in those user accounts not requiring a password
  
• A Spanish translation to the web reports has been added
  
• Some events on Vista and later would not render correctly when viewed through the built-in event viewer on a remote machine
  
• Fixed UAC prompt in EventSentry Light
  
• List of filtered services would not apply to added or removed services/drivers
  
• Real-time monitoring of software and patches would not work on Server Core under some circumstances
  
• Built-in event viewer would not show event details for event sources only registered on the remote machine
  
• Network status would not properly display with patched Internet Explorer v8
• Resolved problem where some evaluation licenses would not work
  
• EventSentry management console would not work correctly on 64-bit Windows 2008 Hyper-V systems
  
• Performance monitoring of OS-counters would not work correctly on 64-bit Windows 2008 Hyper-V systems
  
• Moving event sources between custom event logs would sometimes not work
  
• Resolved problem with SNPP action
• Subject in emails would be include additional tab characters, or space characters would be truncated, when subject length exceeds 80 characters
  
• Compliance tracking features were tweaked for improved speed
  
• Fixed problem with process action for event log entries that contain CR/LF characters
  
• Fixed problem where negation would not work properly in event log filters
  
• Directory monitoring would only work if disk space monitoring was selected in the same package
  
• Tweaked service monitor to ignore case-sensitive changes
  
• File Access Tracking: Fixed bug where sub directories were monitored, even when configured not to do so. Also resolved problem where edit dialog would hide the directory field.
  
• Improved character set handling for email actions
  
• Hardware Inventory: Fixed stability problems that would cause agent to terminate
  
• Event Log Monitoring: Fixed problem where agent would not correctly re-open a previously cleared event log under some circumstances on Windows 2008 and higher
  
• Event Log Monitoring: Fixed memory leak that would affect Vista and higher operating systems
  
• Software Inventory: Fixed WMI handle leak
  
• Licensing: Fixed bug where licenses would not be calculated correctly with certain heartbeat configurations
  
• Improved database code to result in fewer connections to the database
  
• Improved database code to only use one database connection per agent
  
• Fixed problem when running agent on systems with more 32 or more (logical) processors