Category Archives: Breaking Changes

Version 9.0.3 is the first public version 9, which contains various improvements over version 8:

Build 14127 (07.10.2021):

• New values:
  • Operating System: Updates Pending / Reboot Pending
  • Snapshots: Information about snapshots / checkpoints of Hyper-V and VMware
  • VHD Drives: Information about virtual hard disks of VMs
  • UserLogons: Actual logons of users to devices
  • Remaining lifetime for SSDs
  • ConnectionType for monitors: Specifies the protocol used to connect monitors
  • Exchange mailboxes: LitigationHoldDuration, LitigationHoldEnabled, RetentionPolicy, MailboxItemCount, ArchiveItemCount, ArchiveSize
• New Query Editor:
  • Most important / most used properties above
  • Full-text search
  • Templates
  • Filter conditions can be displayed as text
  • Consistent handling of layouts / column orders
• New interface for creating assets: Asset Editor
• New Info Widget:
  • Graphical info
  • Multiline description texts
  • Former Journal widget integrated
  • Replaces Journal, ComputerAccount and UserAccount widget
• New Password Management: User accounts / passwords can be assigned to assets and encrypted by master password
• New Topology Editor / Viewer:
  • Ability to “live” select which types of devices are displayed in the topology
  • Saving of the arrangement, so that the same arrangement is there again at the next startup
  • Indicate what has changed since last viewing of the topology (e.g. “new” or “removed”)
  • Select which details about the devices should be displayed (e.g. not only name, but also owner, or OS, IP address)
  • Editing “unknown” devices, for which we only know the MAC
  • Search for device names
  • If necessary, store building plans or room plans to document the location of a computer
  • Completely new look
• Display of the current ping status
• Assets can be queried to see which switch they are connected to
• New: Online reading of warranty information from devices (possible for selected manufacturers)
• New Reports:
  • Switch Documentation
  • Handover Certificate
  • QR Codes Compact
• Optimized Dynamic Document: Operation Manual
• Reading group memberships of computer accounts, reading group type
• Web Viewer:
  • When updating, only the app pool is restarted and not the whole IIS
  • User specific customizations (column order, sorting, etc.) are permanently stored in cookies
• Automated cleanup of AD data possible
• Dashboards can be created / customized by users themselves and respect the hierarchy of the tree structure
• Custom Properties:
  • Sets with allowed values can be defined for custom properties
  • Sets can be generated automatically based on previously stored values
  • Extension of available data types
  • Formatting of properties possible
  • Hiding of not filled properties in the widget possible
• Exchange Scan: Multiple accounts can be assigned to the definitions
• Remote Scanner: No more error message if no Exchange server could be reached when setting up an Exchange definition
• Task service: Mail port freely selectable
• Views “Computer accounts” and “User accounts” have been abolished -> Instead view “AD Matching“
• New syntax for usernames / group names: FQDN -> allows information from multiple domains to be managed in one database
• New custom actions:
  • Uninstall software packages: Using the list of software package installations (entity: SoftwarePackageInfo), a Powershell script can be started as a custom action, which attempts to remotely uninstall the corresponding package.
  • Running Scheduled Tasks: Using the Scheduled Tasks list (entity: ScheduledTask), a command can be run that executes the scheduled task remotely.
• Multitenancy version: LOGINfo.exes are updated in all client directories on update
• Asset inventory based on Active Directory: switching between explicit and implicit node selection in OU structure possible.
• Tree structure: Reload linked nodes when master structure is changed
• Newly created reports are now directly available in ribbon menu and for tasks without LOGINventory or service restart
• VM Scan: Certain VM types can be excluded from capture using wildcards
• VMware Scan:
  • If possible, the IPs of the virtual machines are also captured when scanning the host
  • The /AllowVmNameSpaces parameter can be used to specify that virtual machines with spaces in their names should not have their names truncated after the first space.
  • If only the IP is reported as the ESXi host name via the API, the DNS record is used instead to specify the host name
• Debug files are no longer processed by the Data Service but are stored in the Debug subfolder
• Portable LMC: Data Import Option No Longer Available