In Tembria Server Monitor v5.5.3, which is currently due on or around January 21st, we have made a few updates to the administration history. Since this is a feature that is often overlooked, even by longtime Tembria users, we thought we would give it some coverage here on the blog.
The administration history shows a comprehensive list of all changes that were made to the monitoring configuration. It’s a great way to keep track of what has been modified and when, especially in environments where there are multiple network admins using Tembria Server Monitor.
A couple of issues with the administration history were reported recently and we have fixes for them coming in v5.5.3. First, the filters at the bottom of the page show incorrect information. Instead of showing user names and categories they are showing incorrect values. That’s been fixed. Also we found that there were a couple of actions in the user interface that were not being recorded in the administration history. We fixed those too.
Along the way we also updated our Active Notifications so that the actions taken through them are logged in the administration history as well. Active Notifications are another feature that deserves more attention. With Active Notifications you can reply to our e-mail notifications with instructions for the monitoring engine such “tembria pause device 5 minutes”.
Posted by Dave
We have four admins using our Tembria install. With this can I tell who made what changes to the config? Does it show the user name?
Yes, one of the columns we provide in the administration history shows the user name that made the change. There’s also the date and time, of course, so it makes for a great audit trail, for example to find out who paused a device last night.