ConsoleWorks 5.1

Network Level Authentication (NLA), on Graphical connections improvements

ConsoleWorks now allows for using Network Level Authentication in Graphical Connections

Large Baseline Differences viewing and including filename

Large Baseline Differences can now be configured to allow for viewing greater than 1024 Lines.

Chained Console Types

A new Connector, Chained Console Types allow users to create a Parent / Child relationship of Consoles when connections are needed for more than one machine, but those machines actually connect through another master or Parent machine.
No License change required

Graphical Gateway updates

New Platforms have been built for the Graphical Gateways. Debian 8 (Jessie), and Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS (xenial).
Have added the ability to disable / enable encryption ciphers on the Graphical Gateway to ConsoleWorks communication path. Useful in highly secure environments and when certain ciphers have been found to be less secure than required. GuiGateways 0.9.7-3 are pre-hardened to no longer accept MD5, RC4 Ciphers, and SSL protocols SSLv2, SSLv3 and SSL Compression are disabled by default.

WEF feature to retrieve Windows Events on Console reconnects

ConsoleWorks now 'Bookmarks' the date/time where it last received data from Windows Event Forwarders when a remote network goes offline, or communication is otherwise interrupted. Once communication is restored ConsoleWorks will now attempt to continue reading Windows event logs at the place that it left off rather than continuing at the most recent event.

File Monitoring Console

ConsoleWorks can now natively monitor the error file it creates when running. (). This is Console that does not consume a connection license key.
No License change required

Device and Device Type resources

ConsoleWorks now offers the concept of Devices as a collection of data streams to a managed device. Devices also support named Device Types. When employing Devices, users may add Consoles, Graphicals, WEFs etc to a Device for a more cohesive view of their monitored machines. 5 streams of data are allowed per Device.
There will be a change in licensing for existing users to transition from Connection based ConsoleWorks to Device based ConsoleWorks. Contact your sales representative if you'd like to see a Demo of Devices

Improved Backup / Restore validation

Backup and restore have had data validation improvements. ConsoleWorks does an improved job of validating data when backing up and restoring.

Online help and reference Documents revamped

The Online Help, OLH for ConsoleWorks 5.1 has been totally revamped. Many of the reference docs referred to in the OLH have been revamped as well.

CWScript Plug-in for Databases on Windows

A Plugin to allow CWScript to update / populate Databases running on the Windows Platform

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