BixData 2.1 released

BixData 2.1 is available for download. Some of the new features include:

• SSL secure connection support for Desktop, Server and Agent
• User login and authentication
• Enhanced Situation Room shows each service check's detail
• New reports for Hard disk IO and temperature
• New drag out and drag in tabs in the Desktop
• Load and save desktop and graph layouts

Read the entire announcement for more details..

BixData 2.1 Release Notes

BixDesktop - General

• New drag & drop tab system, you can drag tabs out of the desktop and dock them again
• New login system to Desktop and Blowfish encrypted key store for saving your login usernames and password to servers and agents
• Supports SSL secure connections, shown with padlock icons in next to the server or agent name in the tab title
• Added new connection types
  • server:// tries secure connection, then open connection
  • sserver:// only tries a secure connection
  • iserver:// only tries an insecure connection
  • same as above for agent://, sagent://, and iagent://
• BixDesktop is now associated with saved desktops, and will launch when you double click .bdw files works
• Added ability to cancel changes or updates
• Stopped allowing null entries to be made in certain lists (netscan hosts/ports, etc)
• Moved database setup and added security setup to Server Setup view
• Added double click actions to most views for creating new items, and connecting to machines

BixDesktop - Situation room

• New tag icons
• Fixed problems with column width getting weird when you add tags
• Added details to tooltips which tell why a certain tag is associated with the host Drawing vertical lines to separate hosts

BixDesktop - Notification History

• Automatically sorting by time

BixDesktop - Reports and Graphs

• Showing progress
• Added cancel button

BixDesktop - Database Setup

• Added database table view

BixDesktop - Netscan

• Removing error bar when scan button hit
• Editing a host with a "-" in it like alpha-beta.org will launch an inline edit and not a range edit

BixDesktop - Graph

• Save/load graphs in .bdw files
• Can set lock graph Y axis min/max values

BixServer - Database setup

• When you select a database in desktop you can see a list of the tables in it and details of how BixData uses it
• You can set how BixData manages the size of its tables by setting Max Records and Prune Amount
• Bug Fix: Fixed a problem with edit DB

BixServer - Reports and Graphs

• New graphs show Hard disk temperature vs hard disk read/write IO, and CPU load per Hard disk models or per device
• Progress bars and the much desired cancel button
• SMART inventory reports correct serial numbers

BixServer - SQL Server support

• Microsoft SQL Server Support, works in theory... tests show that all features work but it's still a little buggy
• Other SQL DB support, for non production use, postgres works mostly and firebird to a lesser degree

BixAgent - Smartctl plugin

• Smartctl is used for getting smart data on linux without root access
• Edit the command used to run smartctl by editing agent/data/xml/dp-smartctl.xml
• Bug fix, works correctly for machines with more than one hd, data output reduced dramatically

BixAgent - SmartInfo Data Collection

• There's a new namespace for data collection on Windows called SmartInfo
• Get information on hard drive serial number, model and firmware version
• Smarctl Info -- Model reported correctly

BixServer and BixAgent Console

• BixServer and BixAgent, when run as a console application on Windows, or on Linux, allows you to shut it down by pressing CTRL+C or CTRL-BREAK