Latest software version: 1.5.20241031

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MD5 hash: e0388f02e0b1b1b449db649a867412a5
SHA256 hash: 3cc46af4bbcc870bf751f1c503413614756a7066e398f7adfed1eff623bf05ec

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Download Server Check v1.5.20241031 (ZIP archive - 16.28 MB)

MD5 hash: 8e631e19e46b9ceff1ccea5e77cdc587
SHA256 hash: 0bda5b45c1b0ae99237d1e33d36b966a391036941bd184b390f42f6ccb8893fd

1.5.20241031 (2024/10/31)

+ Added number of threads to text in option to set number of threads (CPU Thread Performance)

1.5.20241030 (2024/10/30)

+ Added start-up check for file write permissions - Server Check will not run correctly if it does not have write permissions inside the installation directory

1.5.20241029 (2024/10/29)

+ Improved accuracy of monitors being checked when system time is changed

1.5.20241028 (2024/10/28)

+ Added option to unregister (deactivate) software license
+ Added option to set number of threads (Thread Performance - low, medium, high or maximum)
+ Added "ms" (milliseconds) label to y-axis of charts
+ Improved reliability of zlib compression library for HTML GZIP decoding
+ Fixed an issue with monitors not being checked when system time is changed

1.5.20240429 (2024/04/29)

+ Added local web server check to the Internet Connection test (requires external WAN port to match the port set in web server settings)

1.5.20240428 (2024/04/28)

+ Fixed various miscellaneous issues with error handling

1.5.20240427 (2024/04/27)

+ Fixed an issue where monitors using the HTTP HEAD request method sometimes did not respect the HTTP response status code
+ Fixed a speed issue with the Internet Connection test

1.5.20240426 (2024/04/26)

+ Improved reliability of monitor backup routines
+ Improved reliability of web server IP address auto-ban routines

1.5.20240425 (2024/04/25)

+ Added option to restart the application if an error is detected
+ Added option to send error and crash information to the software developer
+ Added option for HTTP monitors to follow 301, 302, 307 and 308 redirects
+ Added Internet Connection test to check which internet services the application can access (e.g. to test for firewall issues)
+ Updated compression library to zlib and removed use of gzip.exe
+ Improved accuracy of HTTP monitor timing results
+ Improved monitor set backup file management - backup files are now saved to a separate directory
+ Improvements made to thread reliability
+ Fixed an issue with some temporary files causing an occasional crash

1.5.20240123 (2024/01/23)

+ Added option to encrypt monitor set save files

1.5.20240113 (2024/01/13)

+ Fixed a further issue with email failure reports not being sent in certain cases where a valid failure has occurred

1.5.20240111 (2024/01/11)

+ Fixed issue with email failure reports sometimes not being sent

1.5.20240107 (2024/01/07)

+ Added option to highlight chart for currently-selected monitor for time specified or indefinitely
+ Added option to scroll to chart automatically when monitor is selected
+ Added display of selected monitors only to GUI monitor report
+ Improvements made to thread reliability
+ Improvements made to failure report processing speed
+ Fixed minor issues with table sort feature in HTML summary reports
+ Fixed occasional error when adding monitors to maintenance mode

1.5.20230823 (2023/08/23)

+ Fixed potential crash of some threads when application receives Windows shutdown messages

1.5.20230821 (2023/08/21)

+ Added option to automatically close on-screen alert panels after specified amount of time
+ Added option to automatically close on-screen alert panels when monitor status changes back to healthy
+ Added option to specify the amount of time until a parent monitor becomes "stale", causing the parent monitor to be re-checked before a child monitor is run
+ Added report range options: 1 day, 2 days, 5 days
+ Improvements made to shutdown routines of threads when application receives Windows shutdown messages
+ Fixed a timeout issue with HTTP monitor GZIP decompression

1.5.20230605 (2023/06/05)

+ Added HTTP HEAD request method to HTTP monitor type
+ Fixed issues arising from specifying an HTTP status code other than 200 OK
+ Fixed handling of HTTP/x.x 100 Continue server response

1.5.20230531 (2023/05/31)

+ Fixed URLs linked from Web Pages menu where the port was not a common HTTP or HTTPS port
+ Fixed URLs shown as example Unique URL links in monitor edit panel

1.5.20230530 (2023/05/30)

+ Optimisations made to thread process management

1.5.20230528 (2023/05/28)

+ Optimisations made to HTTP monitor tests
+ Added option to include or exclude time taken to send HTTP request to remote server in the HTTP response times
+ Fixed an error with licensing information shown in support information

1.5.20230521 (2023/05/21)

+ Added GZIP encoding to HTTP monitor requests and HTTP monitor processing (this is added automatically and does not require user selection or enabling)
+ Added date into recorded hover results shown on full charts
+ Added highlight to selected chart in charts panel
+ Fixed some issues with HTTP monitor tests not processing full server response when server disconnects
+ Fixed missing average value being loaded when monitor statistics are being preserved

1.4.20230513 (2023/05/13)

+ Fixed an issue with the wrong date format being used to record time of last application update check

1.4.20230512 (2023/05/12)

+ Added option to generate configuration support information (this can be copied into an email and sent to our support team so that we can help with configuration issues)

1.4.20230421 (2023/04/21)

+ Improvements made to management and reliability of shutdown routines when application receives Windows shutdown messages

1.4.20230412 (2023/04/12)

+ Fixed issue with label values and monitor failures showing out of place when main GUI charts view was set to 24 results or 36 results

1.4.20230410 (2023/04/10)

+ Fixed further crash issue caused by log files access violation

1.4.20230409 (2023/04/09)

+ Added option to view 12, 24 or 36 results in the main GUI charts window (was previously set to 12 with no option to adjust)
+ Number of results shown within charts on web monitor info page now reflects the value set in the new option described above

1.4.20230408 (2023/04/08)

+ Fixed rare crash caused by log files access violation

1.4.20230228 (2023/02/28)

+ Added "Local Web Server URL" option for specifying the URL assigned to the built-in web server
+ Added "Web Pages" menu with links to view the various stats and report pages in a browser

1.4.20230225 (2023/02/25)

+ Added warning when moving unhealthy monitors to maintenance mode
+ Added setting for selecting the number of recent results from which to calculate the average result values
+ Improvements made to saving statistics - if enabled, previous results are now saved and loaded
+ Improvements and further optimisations made to file loading and saving routines
+ Fixed issue with some settings showing under the incorrect settings category

1.4.20230209 (2023/02/09)

+ Fixed various miscellaneous issues with file loading and saving routines

1.4.20221119 (2022/11/19)

+ Fixed issue with new "Time Between Email/SMS Failure Alerts" not working

1.4.20221117 (2022/11/17)

+ Added two new settings options "Time Between Email Failure Alerts" and "Time Between SMS Failure Alerts", allowing a time period to be specified for limiting the frequency of alerts, to prevent multiple alerts if, for example, a monitor keeps failing, recovering, failing, recovering, and so on.

1.4.20221031 (2022/10/31)

+ Fixed issue with using quotations in an HTTP monitor text search
+ Number of SMS alerts sent daily is now honoured even when application is restarted

1.4.20221030 (2022/10/30)

+ Added User Agent setting for HTTP web requests

1.4.20221028 (2022/10/28)

+ Fixed issue causing timeouts when monitoring websites with a larger HTML download
+ Added option under Tools menu to view and reset the daily SMS count

1.4.20220814 (2022/08/14)

+ Fixed issue with internal calculation of failure times when generating monitor failure reports

1.4.20220810 (2022/08/10)

+ Fixed issue with daily "failure report" email being triggered incorrectly when reports should include failures with a minimum length only

1.4.20220728 (2022/07/28)

+ Added setting Reports -> Minimum Time To Count As Failure
+ Cumulative failure totals report now allows specific selected monitors to be displayed, as well as all monitors
+ Fixed issue with showing only failures for last x days not being limited to last x days
+ Fixed issue with recorded times of failures not observing UTC offsets
+ Fixed error when restarting after applying license
+ Added license expiry information in About panel (depending on license type)
+ Tables shown in web failure reports can now be sorted by column headers
- Removed setting Web Server -> Uptime stats show 100%

1.4.20220426 (2022/04/26)

+ Minor changes to settings menu
+ Combined failure history into one report to display clearer history of all failures
+ Fixed issue causing disparity between statistics failure times and failure times presented in failure history reports
+ Fixed several issues with saved file name and save files
- Removed legacy "last/most recent failure" report type

1.4.20220414 (2022/04/14)

+ Added main menu option to show all failures for all monitors or for only the selected monitors
+ Added "All Failures" email report option
+ Added "All Failures" web report page and web URL option
+ Fixed issue with crash if CSV log files are locked (e.g. when open in Microsoft Excel)
+ Fixed issue where duplicated monitors retained the failure history of the original monitor

1.4.20220410 (2022/04/10)

+ Added name of currently-loaded monitor set to main program title bar
+ Added setting to specify whether monitor failure alerts show on-screen or not
+ Added failure history for individual monitors, accessible from the right-click monitor menu
+ Changed logs to CSV format (previously a plain text format)
+ Changed monitor set file extension to .SCM (previously .SMP, which remains compatible)
+ Fixed issue with settings.ini file sometimes not being kept up-to-date

1.3.20220117 (2022/01/17)

+ Improved search to highlight both monitor and chart, if the relevant windows are open

1.3.20220113 (2022/01/13)

+ Optimisations made to monitor set loading and saving

1.3.20220105 (2022/01/05)

+ Fixed issue with monitors not respecting a newly-applied check interval when using batch edit

1.3.20220102 (2022/01/02)

+ Added search bar to both selectors in the Maintenance Mode panel
+ Added description in the Maintenance Mode panel
+ Web links from "Monitor Stats" page to extended monitor information pages now open in a new tab

1.3.20211231 (2021/12/31)

+ Changes to "Enable Monitor" and "Disable Monitor" buttons (previously "Monitor On" and "Monitor Off")
+ Added Maintenance Mode panel to allow temporary suspension of individual monitors without disabling them (in order to keep them listed as healthy/active on stats dashboards etc.)
+ Adopted HTTP POST instead of HTTP GET for several internal admin connections
+ Fixed issue with program sometimes crashing when using the sort function on the "Status" column
+ Fixed issue with HTTP monitor editing panel "Test" function not correctly distinguishing between GET and POST selection

1.3.20211124 (2021/11/24)

+ Added option to reset failure statistics for single or selected monitors
+ Minor cosmetic improvements

1.3.20211123 (2021/11/23)

+ Added option to set which IP address the web server component uses to listen for incoming connections

1.3.20211118 (2021/11/18)

+ The number of CPU cores on the Server Check system is now used during the first run to calculate how many threads to launch
+ Added option to send failure reports by email only when a failure has occurred since the last report was sent
+ Added right-click menu in white space of monitor window for adding new monitors
+ Fixed issue with summary windows statistics becoming corrupted when editing a monitor that has already failed
+ Fixed issue with blank lines and entries in log files
+ Fixed crash when restarting program after applying a software license
+ Server Check is now Windows 11 compatible

1.3.20210805 (2021/08/05)

+ Fixed issue with incorrect display of some failures in the statistics panel

1.3.20210804 (2021/08/04)

+ Fixed issue with report emails not being sent and causing crash

1.3.20210803 (2021/08/03)

+ Added option to prevent failure reports being sent by email if there have been no monitor failures within the "Report Range" timeframe
+ Added workspace layout "save" and "recall" functionality to allow a custom window layout to be saved and later recalled
+ Added statusbar messages and log messages for some operations that did not previously show such messages
+ Fixed incorrect monitor numbers and statistics being shown when some statistics are reset
+ Fixed window layout not being saved upon Windows shutting down, restarting or logging off

1.3.20210801 (2021/08/01)

+ Fixed issue with some monthly statistics not showing after using the option to reset monitor failure statistics - to reinstate these statistics simply install this update and run the option to reset monitor failure statistics again

1.3.20210731 (2021/07/31)

+ Changes to monitor statistics reset options

1.3.20210730 (2021/07/30)

+ Added monitor type "NTP" for checking Network Time Protocol servers
+ Added monitor type "TLS" for checking for valid Transport Layer Security connections/certificates
+ Added "Any Response Code" option to accept any reponse code (e.g. 200, 404, etc.) for HTTP monitors
+ Added "Report Range" selector in "Monitor Reports" settings panel to restrict report statistics to specified time only
+ Added "Last Failure" statistic to display how long the most recent outage lasted

1.2.20210703 (2021/07/03)

+ Fixed issue with report emails not displaying correctly

1.2.20210702 (2021/07/02)

+ Changes to system information displayed in About panel
+ Minor change to ".bak" file names
+ Fixed issue with report emails not being sent and causing crash
+ Fixed issue with monthly statistics being incorrectly calculated in monthly uptime stats web page

1.2.20210606 (2021/06/06)

+ Fixed issue with status bar not displaying path of saved monitor sets correctly

1.2.20210531 (2021/05/31)

+ Enhanced "Scroll To Chart" feature to highlight the monitor after the scroll
+ Added/corrected keyboard shortcuts in monitors panel: "C" or "F" = show full chart, "S" or "G" = scroll (go to) chart in charts panel

1.2.20210510 (2021/05/10)

+ Added "pause" symbol to status bar when Server Check is paused
+ Added "Scroll To Chart" shortcut in monitors panel by pressing "c" when a single monitor is highlighted
+ Fixed issue with log window losing content when resetting all window panels

1.2.20210509 (2021/05/09)

+ Cosmetic changes to status bar
+ Added "Scroll To Chart" option in monitors panel right-click menu
+ Fixed issue with unique URL example sometimes not showing
+ Fixed issue with incorrect monitor name displaying on the status bar after adding a new monitor

1.2.20210428 (2021/04/28)

+ Fixed issue with display format of time picker in some versions of Windows
+ Server Check now runs on Windows startup by default (new installations only, and can still be disabled in settings panel)

1.2.20210427 (2021/04/27)

+ Fixed some timeout issues with network communication

1.2.20210425 (2021/04/25)

+ Minor cosmetic improvements to user interface

1.2.20210424 (2021/04/24)

+ Fixed license data entry issue with erroneous blank spaces before or after the entered license key

1.2.20210423 (2021/04/23)

+ new HTTP monitors are now set to HTTPS (port 443) by default

1.2.20210422 (2021/04/22)

+ Fixed issue with chart colour selection
+ Minor cosmetic improvements to user interface

1.2.20210416 (2021/04/16)

+ Changes to thread lifetime/inactivity time
+ Fixes to thread timing and stability
+ Optimised monitor deletion
+ Fixed several minor bugs when duplicating monitors
+ Improved error information within monitor edit panel

1.2.20210411 (2021/04/11)

+ Added "notes" field to each monitor

1.2.20210410 (2021/04/10)

+ If not specifically defined when creating a new monitor, the monitor name is now automatically inserted based on the hostname
+ Added Response Code selection for HTTP monitors, allowing checking for response codes such as 302, 401, 404, etc.
+ Added optional authentication username and password for HTTP monitors, allowing sites with basic authentication to be monitored

1.2.20210313 (2021/03/13)

+ Added "Generate" button to the unique URL code field in the monitor editing panel

1.2.20210219 (2021/02/19)

+ Monitor statistics pages can be viewed using unique URL code without client having to log in (if web authentication is enabled)

1.2.20210218 (2021/02/18)

+ Added customisable "Unique URL Code" to monitors, allowing remote (web) viewing of specific monitors (separate multiple codes using a comma)

1.2.20210208 (2021/02/08)

+ Changes to loading and displaying monitors and charts in their respective windows when scrolling
+ Changes to monitor set .bak files to distinguish between manual saves and auto-saves

1.2.20210207 (2021/02/07)

+ Added notification when using SHIFT-Click to select multiple monitors - use ALT-Click and CTRL-Click instead
+ Current monitor set is now backed up to .bak file every time the user saves the monitor set or an auto-save takes place
+ Added log file caching system to reduce number of individual log file writes
+ Added log file clean-up option for cleaning up old log files - NOTE: log files created with earlier versions of Server Check will need to be deleted manually

1.2.20210116 (2021/01/16)

+ Fixed an issue with the cursor when a monitor is missing required information and the "Test" button is clicked

1.2.20210115 (2021/01/15)

+ Minor updates to SMS alert system protocol

1.2.20201230 (2020/12/30)

+ Fixed issue with sleeping monitors being checked upon program startup

1.2.20201206 (2020/12/06)

+ Fixed missing Chart Settings options in Settings panel

1.2.20201205 (2020/12/05)

+ Fix to the way failed monitors are handled and updated when they (or their parent) are sleeping

1.2.20201201 (2020/12/01)

+ Improvements to the way failed monitors are handled and updated when they (or their parent) are sleeping

1.2.20201124 (2020/11/24)

+ Added option to automatically install updates (some security updates may still be installed automatically even with this setting disabled)

1.2.20201121 (2020/11/21)

+ Added indicator to show when a monitor is sleeping due to parent sleeping
+ Fixed monitor status not always updating in monitor and statistics panels

1.2.20201109 (2020/11/09)

+ Added weblink to claim FREE 10-monitor license when selecting restricted monitor types

1.2.20201030 (2020/10/30)

+ Added option to enable/disable resizing of individual main GUI panels when main GUI is resized
+ Fixed issue with updates sometimes freezing and failing

1.2.20201029 (2020/10/29)

+ Added table sort function to table headers on certain HTML web pages generated by Server Check

1.2.20201026 (2020/10/26)

+ Added bulk monitor editing panel to allow changes to be made to all or multiple selected monitors at once
+ Added optional "Auto Unpause" setting to allow a paused system to be automatically unpaused after specified time
+ Changes to monitor edit window size consistency between monitor types
+ Improvements to handling of licensing server connection failures
+ Fixed issues and conflicts with some anti-virus software
+ Fix runtime error with tray icon at program launch
- Removed individual bulk email and SMS edit options (now part of the bulk monitor editing panel)

1.1.20200820 (2020/08/20)

+ Changes to accuracy and number of "failed" results recorded and displayed on monitor charts

1.1.20200813 (2020/08/13)

+ Fixed "out of memory" software update crash issue
+ Renamed software update executable

1.1.20200810 (2020/08/10)

+ Fixed issue with system performance not being calculated

1.1.20200809 (2020/08/09)

+ Optimised executables and program folder
+ Added quick find to monitor types in summary panel - e.g. click red "Failed" section to cycle through all monitors that are currently failing
+ Fixed system performance being updated every few seconds when a monitor has failed
+ Fixed monitor changes being made live when editing a monitor with invalid parameters
- Removed full path from monitor set filename when confirming to overwrite an existing file
- Removed double error notification when using incorrect SMS format in monitor editor

1.1.20200805 (2020/08/05)

+ Fixed some security issues with installer and program executable

1.1.20200726 (2020/07/26)

+ Improved stability of software update mechanism
+ Added file backup routine when an opened monitor set exceeds the licensed number of monitors to allow recovery of the full monitor set once a license is applied or upgraded

1.1.20200720 (2020/07/20)

+ Updated to latest version of network communications library "LBNet32.dll" (previously called "SChannelWrapper32.dll")
+ Added number of monitoring threads to the system performance information
+ Added "Clear All" option on bulk edit email and bulk edit SMS panels

1.1.20200705 (2020/07/05)

+ Added Request Method option to HTTP monitors - GET or POST HTTP request method can now be selected in the HTTP monitor add/edit panels

1.1.20200704 (2020/07/04)

+ Added option to use Server Check Mail System for sending all emails as an alternative to using own SMTP server - available for licensed versions of Server Check only (including the free 10-monitor registered version)
+ Added search bar to toolbar - searches monitor label, hostname/IP, alert email address and alert SMS number fields
+ Improved error information when testing a monitor via the "Add Monitor" and "Edit Monitor" panels
+ Added "Page Loading" screen to all web stats and report pages

1.0.20200621 (2020/06/21)

+ Improved performance of monthly uptime stats page
+ Added "Page Loading" screen to monthly uptime stats page
+ Power alerts are now generated and sent when mains power fails and battery power takes over
+ Added optional "Update Available" emails and SMS messages to the automatic update check

1.0.20200613 (2020/06/13)

+ Modified automatic daily update check time
+ Fixed incorrect monitor information showing in monitor/failure reports
+ Added summary window vertical layout option

1.0.20200604 (2020/06/04)

+ Improved error messages and detection for contact telephone numbers which should be in E.164 format
+ Added optional automatic daily update check
+ Added 100% uptime threshold to uptime HTML reports, which allows a value of 100% uptime to be displayed even if actual uptime is less than 100% but greater than the specified threshold

1.0.20200602 (2020/06/02)

+ Fixed issue with Server Check performance speed not showing correctly after a license key is applied or changed
+ Fixed issue with web server where web headers were conflicting with some HTML assets
+ Fixed memory issues with log window and optimised display of logged items
+ Added links to menus for purchasing license and SMS credits
- Removed earlier external dependencies optimisations

1.0.20200529 (2020/05/29)

+ Added SMS Credits check to display number of remaining SMS credits in account
+ Added Low SMS Credits alert (default: 5)
+ Improved system tray icon recovery if/when Windows Explorer restarts or tray icon disappears

1.0.20200525 (2020/05/25)

+ Fixed issues with resizing, closing and opening some windows
+ Fixed performance issue related to window resizing
+ Improved software license activation for security
+ Added Minimise To Tray option

1.0.20200520 (2020/05/20)

+ Fixed issue with splash screen disappearing during update check on program startup
+ Optimised external dependencies memory usage

1.0.20200517 (2020/05/17)

+ Fixed issue with Instant Double-Check option causing Server Check to stop responding
+ Cleaned up thread registry entries and log entries
+ Optimised thread relaunch routine
+ Cosmetic changes to About dialog

1.0.20200514 (2020/05/14)

+ Changed update notification to be less intrusive when Server Check starts with Windows
+ Added Start/Pause function to system tray icon right-click menu
+ Optimised some system tray icon operations

1.0.20200510 (2020/05/10)

+ Cosmetic and functional improvements made to system tray icon menu

1.0.20200508 (2020/05/08)

+ Thread management improved
+ Cosmetic changes to Settings panel

1.0.20200506 (2020/05/06)

+ Thread management improved
+ Clicking on a single chart now scrolls to that monitor in the monitors window

1.0.20200505 (2020/05/05)

+ Improved thread performance
+ Added thread refresh at midnight
+ Fixed some memory management issues

1.0.20200428 (2020/04/28)

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