SimpleSoft is pleased to announce the following new releases of its
SimpleSleuth product.
SimpleSleuth Ver 2.5 Release Notes (July 21, 2005)
These notes describe the new enhancements made to the SimpleSleuth since
Version 2.0.
IPv6 Support
The SimpleSleuth now supports communcation via Internet Protocol
version 6 (IPv6). An IPv4 or IPv6 entity address can now be specified.
The application will automatically recognize the address type and initiate
the appropriate communication scheme. Both agent and manager tests are
supported.
For management application testing, the
SimpleSleuth will open the appropriate agent socket based on the IP
version specified by the user.
SimpleSleuth Ver 2.0 Release Notes (May 3rd, 2004)
These notes describe the new enhancements made to the SimpleSleuth since
Version 1.1.
Command Recorder
With the Command Recorder feature, test sequences carried out
using the graphical user interface get recorded into a command file.
This command file can then be used to carry out the same
tests in command line mode, without the GUI.
The command recorder automatically creates the corresponding
command file making it easy to use the SimpleSleuth in an
unattended, automated manner.
HTML Test Summary Reporting
The Test Summary file can now also be created in HTML format
where the test results are displayed in an easy to read
tabular manner.
Links are also provided to the actual test results so that
you can easily drill down to get additional information.
Dongle Key Support
The hardware dongle key is now also supported in addition
to the software license key, for user convenience. Both
parallel and USB keys are now supported.
Agent Reboot Detection
Sometimes, the agent crashes, reboots and is up again in
time to respond to the good SNMP queries done to check if
the agent is still alive. To detect fast agent reboots,
SimpleSleuth now supports the retrieval of sysUpTime before
and during the tests and checks if the sysUpTime value is
getting larger.
Port Closure Detection
In the case of Manager testing, there are no specific checks
being made by SimpleSleuth to detect if the manager is
still alive. In ver 2.0, SimpleSleuth adds the detection
of port closure error messages in Windows to detect if there
is no longer an application that is listening to the remote
port. This can indicate that the application (for example
a trap receiver application on port 162) has crashed and is
no longer available to listen to incoming traps.
MIB Browser Support
A new MIB browser application that can be resized is now
included in the product. It has the ability to do multiple
varbind SET requests.
