Version Argent Omega – All Versions Date Thursday, 27 June 2024 Summary Argent Omega uses self-signed certificate by default. Certificate is used in two areas: Communication between Generators, especially remote Secondary Generators and Offload Generators. Argent Web Reverse Proxy Service Though self-signed certificates are safe enough for most internal usage cases, customers might want to […]
Version Argent Omega 2.2A-2404-A and later Date Wednesday, 26 June 2024 Summary Argent Omega Web Defender uses a bundled Chromium browser (v88.0.4298.0) to run Web Session Rules by default Users do not need to install either Chrome or Edge browser to use the product. However, company policy might dictate a particular browser or a specific […]
Version Argent Omega 2.2A-2404-A and later Date Wednesday, 26 June 2024 Summary Password-less SSH logon is considered more secure than typical user/password logon. It is very common for Linux/UNIX administrators. It is accomplished by implementing public key authentication between Linux/UNIX hosts. Argent Omega implements public key authentication as well. It makes use of PuttyGen.exe, which […]
Version Argent Omega 2.2A-2404-A and earlier Date Monday, 24 June 2024 Summary When running a Compliance Report to report over a long period, such as one week or longer, the report can fail with SQL Query timeout error. A common case is reporting on logon activity A typical Domain Controller can generate more than a […]
Version Argent Omega 2.2A-2404-B or later Date Monday, 24 June 2024 Summary Performance Reports in Argent Reporter are usually used to display key performance counters side by side in tabular format. A typical usage is to show the latest disk space usage for all machines in the network. When there are more than 100 machine […]
Version Argent Omega 2.2A-2404-B and later Date Monday, 24 June 2024 Summary Performance Reports in Argent Reporter normally display numeric values with two digits after decimal point For example, 23.378% of Free Space is displayed as 23.38%. Sometimes users may want to display the only the integer or a number in greater precision. Argent Reporter […]
Version Argent Omega 2.2A-2404-B or later Date Monday, 24 June 2024 Summary Performance Reports in Argent Reporter normally display date/time in the format of 2024-06-23-06:05:23 Customers may want to display in a different format. For example, European customers may want to display 23/06/2024 06:05:23 instead Argent Reporter 2.2A-2404-B has been enhanced to allow specifying the […]
Version Argent Omega 2.2A-2404-A and later Date Friday, 14 June 2024 Summary PowerShell is extensively used to manage Microsoft and other vendors’ software. Examples include Azure Cloud, PowerShell Remoting, VMware PowerCLI, etc. When monitoring a remote resource, it is typical to log on and connect with the remote resource first. If doing this directly in […]
Version Argent Omega 2.2A-2404-A and later Date Friday, 14 June 2024 Summary The CMDB-X browser display can become sluggish when there are over 1,000 nodes, because the browser tries to hold all node information in memory. When memory usage skyrockets, browser performance deteriorates and becomes unstable. The new Page Mode feature has been implemented to […]
Version Argent Omega 2.2A-2404-A and later Date Friday, 14 June 2024 Summary Users can use CMDB-X Bulk Operation to select nodes and quickly apply licenses, set flags etc. The feature is available in right-click context menu. Click For Full Size In the popup select nodes; the nodes currently selected on CMDB-X are the default selection. […]
Version Argent Omega 2.2A-2404-A and later Date Friday, 14 June 2024 Summary Administrators can receive email messages with subject line ‘Task Cancelled’. The message body reads as Task (Relator: xxxx Machine: xxxx) is cancelled because previous instance has been running too long and unresponsive The Relator trace log, it shows either failed to get performance […]
Version Argent Omega 2.2A-2404-A and later Date Friday, 14 June 2024 Summary It is best practice to dynamic pool with Argent Omega Executors for better performance. Often many Relators need to be updated For example, Relators migrated from Argent AT might use ‘Spawn New Task Executor Process’, which causes less optimal performance Now the new […]
Version Argent Omega 2.2A-2404-A and later Date Friday, 14 June 2024 Summary It is best to use dynamic scheduling when Relator includes more than five nodes to spread the load over the schedule interval so that Argent Omega Generator is less likely to be overwhelmed at any one moment. Users can run Argent Omega CLI […]
Version Argent Omega 2.2A-2404-A and later Date Thursday, 13 June 2024 Summary Performance-monitoring Relator uses the option ‘Do NOT Apply Rules In This Relator To An Inaccessible Node’ for better performance — reading Windows performance metrics is quite expensive This is especially true when a machine is offline, because the Rule has to wait to […]
Version Argent Omega 2.2A-2404-A and later Date Thursday, 13 June 2024 Summary PowerShell script can run as a command or as batch file Combined with PowerShell Remoting option, Argent PowerShell Script Action can run commands at remote machines Click For Full Size This significance is enormous. Typically, to run commands at a remote machine, the […]
Version Argent Omega 2.2A-2401-A and earlier Date Thursday, 13 June 2024 Summary When deployed, Secondary Generators periodically uploads runtime data including Relator trace log, connectivity status, network scan results, etc. to the Primary Generator The Primary Generator then updates SQL database The runtime data is compressed before uploading. The compressed files can be found in […]
Version Argent Omega 2.2A-2404-A and later Date Thursday, 13 June 2024 Summary SQL Query reports are versatile and extremely flexible to report any SQL data Argent Reporter provides built-in SQL queries for both Compliance Reports and SQL Query Reports. Compliance Reports Click For Full Size Generic Compliance Reports Click For Full Size SQL Query Reports […]
Version Argent Omega 2.2A-2404-A and later Date Thursday, 13 June 2024 Summary It is common for users to use Windows Performance Rule to check CPU usage for target machines When CPU usage is found high, users might want to know what processes pegs the CPU Argent Omega has bundled CPU and memory PowerShell Script Actions […]
Version Argent Omega 2.2A-2404-A and later Date Thursday, 13 June 2024 Summary Search function is always available for tables and grids in Argent Omega. When clicking on ‘Search’ button, it expands to allow entering keyword for searching After entering keyword, click on button to filter list. To return to the original list, click on button […]
Version Argent Omega 2.2A-2404-A and later Date Thursday, 13 June 2024 Summary Users might need to put a large batch of Relators into Production Mode, Test Mode or Suspended status Instead of doing it one by one in Web UI, users can accomplish this by running Argent Omega CLI. An option is also provided to […]
Version Argent Omega – All Versions Date Thursday, 13 June 2024 Summary When an Argent Omega installation is upgraded on Primary Generator, all Secondary Generators and Offload Generators are supposed to be upgraded to the same version automatically. When the upgrade is done, the Windows service should be restarted. However, it has been reported that […]
Version Argent Omega 2.2A-2404-A and later Date Wednesday, 12 June 2024 Summary Argent Omega keeps hardware information in CMDB-X. Node properties ‘Hardware’ contains following hardware information: Processor Type – CPU make/model etc. Core – Physical CPU cores Logical Processors – count of logic processors Memory – Physical memory in MB Click For Full Size A […]
Version Argent Omega 2.2A-2401-A and earlier Date Wednesday, 12 June 2024 Summary When auto start service exclusion in Service Rule is used, Service Rule will exclude all auto start services. As result, Service Rule will never break It is caused by a coding error. It has been addressed in Argent Omega 2.2A-2404-A Click For Full […]
Version Argent Omega 2.2A-2404-A and later Date Wednesday, 12 June 2024 Summary URL monitoring could fail with error ‘Server Certificate Verification Failed. Connection Aborted’. It happens when executing a connectivity test or running System Down Rule or Website Availability Rule. Click For Full Size This is caused by the invalid website certificate. For example, the […]
Version Argent Omega – All Versions Date Wednesday, 12 June 2024 Summary When running Argent Omega WUI on a server with no internet access, users will find charts not working The areas on the report that should show chart or graph would be simply blank. Affected modules include Enterprise View, Dashboard, Problem Preventor, Event Console […]
Version Argent Omega 2.2A-2404-A or later Date Wednesday, 29 May 2024 Summary Added the Summary Graph property group to both Event and SuperMaps screens to configure the appearance of Summary Graph in Argent Omega 2404-A Argent Omega 2401-A and below versions use a Pie chart for summarizing the event statistics in Event and SuperMaps Console […]
Version Argent Omega 2.2A-2404-A or later Date Thursday, 16 May 2024 Summary This KBI explains how to migrate Report Definitions from Argent Reports to Argent Reporter. Argent Reporter is the reporting facility built into Argent Omega The most important aspect of Argent Reporter is that it can take data from any database – SQL Server, […]
Version All Versions of Argent Omega Date Tuesday, 07 May 2024 Summary Offload Generators are the same as Trusted Agents in Argent AT products. Offload Generators are the workhorses who do the heavy lifting and monitoring work on a remote machine. Offload Generators can also be employed in diverse architectures where a single Argent Generator […]
Version Argent Cloud Scheduler – All Versions Date Monday, 25 March 2024 Summary When the nightly Rollover is executed at midnight, Rollover locks the scheduler (SCH) component to ensure all new jobs have been rolled over, otherwise jobs could be scheduled to run out of sequence If you have a Job that runs in the […]
Version Argent Cloud Scheduler Date Monday, 18 March 2024 Summary Argent Cloud Scheduler log zip files are not found even after running for 24 hours Technical Background Argent Cloud Scheduler log zip files are not found in the LOGS directory even after running continuously for 24 hours: Click For Full Size This can be caused […]
Version Argent Clout Scheduler Date Thursday, 7 March 2024 Summary The free Microsoft Process Explorer and the vanilla TaskMgr sometimes show the Argent Cloud Scheduler services and sometimes do not. Technical Background This is caused by the way these tools are invoked: Not Admin: not shown Admin: shown Argent strongly recommends using the far superior […]
Version Argent Clout Scheduler Date Wednesday, 28 February 2024 Summary The following Microsoft bug is logged when executing ABL350_EOS.exe: Click For Full Size The following Microsoft bug is logged when executing ABL350_EOS.exe: Click For Full Size This unstable Microsoft bug can be mitigated – but not corrected – by a server reboot Argent is investigating
Version Argent Cloud Scheduler Date Monday, 11 March 2024 Summary Found the following Microsoft bug when executing ABL350_STEP_EXECUTOR.exe The instance of ABL350_STEP_EXECUTOR.exe was missing in the Process Explorer application. When checked, it was found that ABL350_STEP_EXECUTOR.exe is prematurely exiting with the following log: Technical Background N/A Resolution N/A For further assistance, please contact Argent on […]
Version Argent Cloud Scheduler, Any Version Date Tuesday, 27 February 2024 Summary The following Microsoft bug is logged when executing ABL350_SCH.exe: The same Microsoft bug is seen when explicitly executing the query in SQL Server Management Studio: This unstable Microsoft bug can be mitigated – but not corrected – by a server reboot Argent is […]
Version Argent Clout Scheduler Date Wednesday, 28 February 2024 Summary The following Microsoft bug is logged when executing ABL350_EOS.exe: Click For Full Size This unstable Microsoft bug can be mitigated – but not corrected – by a server reboot Argent is investigating
Version Argent Omega All Versions Date Monday, 26 February 2024 Summary Argent Omega has extensive and powerful port monitoring. However this very power can inadvertently lead to being flooded with spurious alerts. This article describes the process of tagging ports on a network device to be alerted only on relevant alerts. Once tagged, this enables […]
Version Argent Job Scheduler 10.0-2401-A and above Date Friday, 23 February 2024 Summary Option to configure Exchange Web Service for Microsoft 365 in Argent Job Scheduler Following are the benefits of integrating Exchange Web Service, which includes: Effortless Email Communication Customers can send emails straight through the application with ease, which expedites their communication procedures. […]
Version Argent Omega 2.2A-2401-A and later Date Wednesday, February 14, 2024 Summary Customer might need to move Argent Omega installation to a different drive for reasons like current drive is too small. Instead of re-install Argent Omega, Argent Omega CLI can help to accomplish this task fairly easy. Customer should take following steps: Write down […]
Version Argent Omega 2.2A-2401-A and later Date Wednesday, February 14, 2024 Summary Customer might need to move Argent Omega SQL backend to a new SQL database for reasons such as rebuilding SQL Server, SQL database running out of storage, etc. To accomplish this task, customer should take following steps: Write down Argent Omega Administrative Protection […]
Version Argent Omega 2.2A-2401-A and later Date Wednesday, February 14, 2024 Summary Customer might need to rename Argent Omega Generator names. Some examples include: Secondary Generator is moved to a new server. Offload Generator is moved to a new server. Rename old Argent AT engine names after migration. Argent Omega Relators, Workflows etc. refer to […]
Version Argent WorldView – All Versions Date Monday, 5 February 2024 Summary Ad Hoc Job did not start in Argent WorldView after submitting. Technical Background Create a Job that is configured to only run one instance at a time Click For Full Size Submit that Job in 'Held' mode Click For Full Size Instance will […]
Version Chrome web browser using Argent Omega, Argent Reports, Argent Commander: all versions Date Wednesday, 10 January 2024 Summary While using the Chrome web browser to access Argent Omega, Argent Commander or Argent Reports, users may experience slow load times or errors when navigating the web user interface This KBI explains the most common cause […]
Version Argent Omega all versions Date Wednesday, 10 January 2024 Summary By default, Argent Omega retains ALL data without any limitations. Customizing your retention settings is always recommended and highly important to maintain a predictably sized repository in the long term Technical Background Configure the three primary data retention settings seen below: 1. Argent SIEM-Complete, […]
Version Argent Omega 2.2A-2401-A and later Date Monday, 25 December 2023 Summary Monitoring Group used to rely on ODBC Query to define adaptive Monitoring Group. For example, &MG_LICENSED_WINDOWS includes all licensed Windows machines. Click For Full Size However, users might not be experts of SQL query or not familiar with structure of Argent Omega SQL […]
Version Argent Omega 2.2A-2401-A and later Date Monday, 25 December 2023 Summary The Find feature on Argent Omega Home module is very useful to search static information such as screen tags, module name, folder name, screen text, etc. It is enhanced to be Super Find, which allows find any definition simply by entering the object […]
Version Argent Omega 2.2A-2310-A Date Friday, 22 December 2023 Summary When Relator is reloaded in Web UI, Option ‘Automatic Resolve Events When Rule Is No Longer Broken’ is ALWAYS off. If users check the option and save Relator, the option is saved correctly to database so that Relator will be executed properly by Argent Omega […]
Version Argent Omega 2.2A-2310-A or earlier Date Friday, 22 December 2023 Summary When migrating Argent for Compliance Rules, PowerShell Script Rules are skipped so not migrated at all. The issue has been addressed in Argent Omega 2.2A-2401-A. Technical Background N’A Resolution Upgrade to Argent Omega 2.2.2401-A or later. For further assistance, please contact Argent on […]
Version Argent Omega — All Versions Date Saturday, 23 Dec 2023 Summary To get a production key for Argent Omega, you will need to provide some information about the machine that you will be installing Argent Omega on. A key request will then be submitted using the information you provided. Once the key request is […]
Version Argent Omega 2.2A-2310-A or earlier Date Friday, 22 December 2023 Summary When running System Down Rule using Windows NetRemoteTOD API option against offline or non-existent machine, Argent Omega could report the erroneous up status once or a few times for every 24 hours. It results in mistaken condition corrections and system down alerts immediately […]
Version Argent Omega 2.2A-2310-A or earlier Date Friday, 22 December 2023 Summary Scheduled Task screen shows all currently scheduled tasks and their executed instances. When refresh happens, either automatically or manually, the current row selection of task list (upper one) might go off screen or is simply lost. This is more likely when there are […]
Version Argent Omega 2.2A-2401-A and later Date Friday, 22 December 2023 Summary When user research events in Argent Omega Event Console, he might decide to see the definition of related Relator or Rule. In earlier versions, a user might have had to write down the Relator or Rule name, then opens Control Information tree, and […]
Version Argent Omega 2.2A-2401-A and later Date Friday, 22 December 2023 Summary Argent Omega control information is arranged in tree structure. Folders can be big and deep. For example, Relator folder can have several levels and more than a hundred Relators in total. It becomes difficult to find a Relator by name. Search function is […]
Version Argent Omega 2.2A-2310-A or earlier Date Friday, 22 December 2023 Summary When defining a Windows Service Rule, users might use ‘Browse Computer’ option to select one or multiple Windows Services from the list. However, users might encounter ‘Access Denied’ error when doing so. The feature has been implemented in Argent Omega 2.2A-2401-A. Technical Background […]
Version Argent Omega 2.2A-2310-A or earlier Date Monday, 18 December 2023 Summary SQL Query Rule in Argent Omega for SQL Server generates alerts randomly. Events might be automatically resolved in the next runs. However, when testing Rule interactively in Web UI, correct results are always returned. The issue has been addressed in Argent Omega 2.2A-2401-A. […]
Version Argent Omega 2.2A-2307-A and earlier Date Monday, December 4, 2023 Summary Creating a Rule works and returns value of the Used Disk space but when you try to go to Top X to see the variable or formula (CUsedMB) Technical Background The variable CUsedMB is not available in Top X to create a graph […]
Version Argent Omega all versions Date Monday, 13 November 2023 Summary This document explains how to associate unique connectivity credentials to a single device when monitoring with Argent Omega The unique credentials also allow Argent Omega to monitor devices in a different domain Technical Background By default, Argent Omega will store the Active Directory credentials […]
Version Argent AT and Argent Omega — All Versions Date Wednesday, 22 November 2023 Summary This article lays out a more streamlined and optimal process for migrating a customer’s Argent AT environment over to Argent Omega. Ensure you have a clean, freshly set up test environment with the latest version of Argent Omega installed for […]
Version Argent Solaris Queue Engine all versions Date Wednesday, 15 November 2023 Summary In environments using Solaris Queue Engines where there may be large number of Jobs being submitted and executed at a time, users may notice large numbers of read and write events in their audit logs being captured for one or more of […]
Version Argent Omega 2.2A-2310-A and later Date Wednesday, 8 November 2023 Summary Network printer is represented as Printer Queues in Windows network. Printer Queue has various statuses such as online, offline, no paper, paper jam, etc. Printer Queue also has queued jobs. A lengthy queue could indicate an unhealthy state. Printer Queue’s intrinsic name is […]
Version Argent Omega 2.2A-2310-A and later Date Wednesday, 8 November 2023 Summary Node in CMDB-X can have one or several Credentials depending on whether it is a SNMP managed device or it is hosted in some virtualization environment. Nodes in CMDB-X are organized with Network Groups. It is convenient to define default Credentials at Network […]
Version Argent Omega all versions Date Sunday, 5 November 2023 Summary Argent Omega monitors VMware using PowerCLI. It used to be a separate setup package downloaded from VMware web site (www.vwmare.com). Now PowerShell CLI can be installed as PowerShell module. To do so, run Windows PowerShell as administrator, then issue following command to install: Install-Module […]
Sunday, 5 November 2023 Summary When running Windows Compliance Rule against target machine with limited or disabled remote access to WMI, WMI audit failure events can be generated. It could be annoying as it pollutes the real audit failure events. It is caused by Windows Compliance Rule tries to check whether system audits are enabled. […]
Version Argent Omega 2.2A-2307-A and earlier Date Sunday, 5 November 2023 Summary SQL Query Rule failed to resolve automatically when the Rule is no longer broken. Though Azure SQL Management Instance can be discovered or manually added in CMDB-X, only Argent Omega Baseline can be licensed. Without Argent Omega for SQL Server license, majority of […]
Version Argent Omega 2.2A-2307-A and earlier Date Thursday, 2 November 2023 Summary SQL Query Rule failed to resolve automatically when the Rule is no longer broken. It has been corrected in Argent Omega 2.2A-2310-A. Technical Background The issue is caused by coding error. Resolution Upgrade to Argent Omega 2.2A-2310-A or later. For further assistance, please […]
Version Argent Omega 2.2A-2310-A or later Date Thursday, 2 November 2023 Summary Argent Omega reads Windows performance metrics through Windows performance counters. They are not always available. For example, Remote Registry service might be disabled on purpose for security reason; as results, no performance counters are available remotely at all. Another example, user might turn […]
Version Argent Omega 2.2A-2310-A or later Date Wednesday, 1 November 2023 Summary Both Windows Compliance Rule and Windows Event Log Rule can filter on event IDs. Some of such event ID combinations could be used in multiple Rules. For example, events 4722 and 4725 are about account enabled or disabled, events 4728,4732 and 4756 are […]
Version Argent Omega 2.2A-2310-A or later Date Tuesday, 31 October 2023 Summary System CPU usage can be very high when Argent Omega Generator monitors a significant amount of servers, or runs resource intensive monitoring tasks, such as archiving compliance data, running Web Session Rules etc. Because of that, the system could become unresponsive interactively. It […]
Version Argent Omega 2.2A-2307-B and earlier Date Tuesday, 31 October 2023 Summary When running Windows Compliance Rule migrated from Argent AT, excessive growth of Compliance database can be resulted. To verify, run standard report ‘Disk Usage by Top Tables’ in SQL Management Studio. Click For Full Size The typical result shows ARGSOFT_COMPLIANCE_LOG_ARCHIVE uses majority of […]
Version Argent Omega 2.2A-2310-A or later Date Monday, 30 October 2023 Summary Argent Omega now supports Azure SQL Management Instance as SQL backend. It is now just an option when selecting SQL database. Everything else works just as SQL Server. Click For Full Size Technical Background N/A Resolution Upgrade to Argent Omega 2.2A-2310-A or later. […]
Version Argent Omega 2.2A-2310-A or later Date Monday, 30 October 2023 Summary Argent Omega Generator sends email messages for important internal events, such as expiring license, offline SQL backend, etc. Argent Omega is enhanced to enable or suppress email messages for some or all internal events. Click For Full Size Technical Background N/A Resolution Upgrade […]
Version Argent Omega 2.2A-2310-A or later Date Monday, 30 October 2023 Summary Argent Omega Generator sends email messages for important internal events, such as expiring license, offline SQL backend, etc. Multiple email addresses separated by commas can be used now for internal events. However, a better way is to use the Email Recipient Macro feature. […]
Version Argent Omega 2.2A-2310-A or later Date Tuesday, 17 October 2023 Summary Both Argent SMS Generator and Argent AT Engine use GSM modem to send SMS messages. GSM modem is operated through COM port. Normally COM port cannot be opened by two processes at the same time. Argent Omega 2.2A-2310-A has been enhanced to share […]
Version Argent Advanced Technology 5.1A-2310-A and above Date Wednesday, 18 October 2023 Summary From Argent Advanced Technology version 1610-A onwards, Argent for Oracle is only compiled with the 32-bit Oracle 12.2.0 C++ Call Interface (OCCI) library; thus, it requires a 32-bit Oracle client to be installed on the Argent server as a prerequisite. Because of […]
Version Argent Omega 2.2A-2307-B (Build: 2.2.2310.11) or later Date Wednesday, 11 October 2023 Summary Argent Omega runs LINUX/Unix Rule through SSH or Telnet. Due to intermittent network issues, scripts might not be executed successfully. Retry mechanism is implemented to mitigate this unavoidable environmental issue. Click For Full Size Technical Background N/A Resolution Upgrade to Argent […]
Version All Versions of Argent Omega Date Thursday, 14 September 2023 Summary This document will tell you how to configure Argent Omega to use gMSA account for authentication across multiple servers in a monitored environment Technical Background The group Managed Service Account (gMSA) provides automatic password management and extends that functionality over multiple servers When […]
Version All Versions of Argent Omega Date Friday, 22 September 2023 Summary This document will describe both the process of updating the Argent Omega license after the product is installed and how to manipulate which parts of the license are applied to each monitored object Technical Background Argent Omega only has 1 license file that […]
Version Argent Omega 2.2A-2307-B or earlier Date Thursday, 28 September 2023 Summary When a user leverages the Argent Omega Migration Tool to import Argent AT Rules into Argent Omega, it might be found that only partial or none of Windows Performance Rules are imported. Further checking the migration logs, in Warning and Errors section, following […]
Version Argent Omega 2.2A-2307-B or later Date Tuesday, 24 October 2023 Summary Argent Omega might encounter SQL error “The transaction log for database XXXXXXXXXX is full due to ‘LOG_BACKUP’”. This is caused by SQL Server running out of space for transaction logs. Argent Omega 2.2A-2307-B (Build: 2.2.2210.4) has been enhanced to periodically backup and shrink […]
Version Argent Omega 2.2A-2307-B or later Date Monday, 9 October 2023 Summary Heartbeat Events for Argent Omega allows both Primary and Secondary Generators to do the full internal checks and send email messages periodically. Product Administrators can easily tell the health of the system by simply checking the received messages. If any message is missing, […]
Version Argent Omega All Versions Date Monday, 16 October 2023 Summary Unlike Argent Advanced Technology, Argent Omega provides the facility to configure multiple instances on the same SQL Server in the CMDB-X. Use the Argent Omega for SQL Server Tool Sets to monitor these configured instances. The following sections describe how to do this. Technical […]
Version Argent Omega 2.2A-2307-A and earlier Date Sunday, 15 October 2023 Summary Argent Omega Migration Tool might fail to import some Email Alerts. The error message in log shows: Validation failed for one or more entities. See ‘EntityValidationErrors’ property for more details. The validation errors are: The field To must be a string or array […]
Version Argent Omega 2.2A-2307-B and earlier Date Friday, 13 October 2023 Summary When running Connectivity Rule and VMware Rules against VMware objects, such as ESX host, Virtual Machines, Datacenter, etc., Rules can randomly fail. Following lines can be found in ArgentOmegaExecutor*_Log.txt: Runtime Error: You have modified the global:DefaultVIServer and global:DefaultVIServers system variables. This is not […]
Version Argent Omega 2.2A-2307-B and earlier Date Friday, 13 October 2023 Summary Using the Easy Automator, Argent Reporter can be configured to automatically send Reports to recipient either as an email attachment or as a download URL (the default setting). However the email is sent in only HTML format, there is no option for the […]
Version Argent AT 5.1A-2307-A and earlier Date Tuesday, 10 October 2023 Summary The current checkbox text on screen G26 – ‘Fail Rule If The Data Is Not Available Or Script Error’ is misleading; in future releases the text will read ‘Script Error, Or Timeout, Or No Data’. Click For Full Size In most cases, the […]
Version Argent AT 5.1A-2207-A and earlier Date Monday, 9 October 2023 Summary When Argent AT Daughter Engine starts, it checks the installed version of Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable. It will try to install bundled VC++ 2015 Redistributable if no compatible VC++ Redistributable is found. Support of Microsoft Visual C++ 2015-2022 Redistributable was introduced in Argent […]
Version Argent Omega 2.2A-2307-B (Build: 2.2.2210.3) or later Date Tuesday, 3 October 2023 Summary Argent Alert Mechanism has a built-in SMS Generator for sending SMS alerts. However, mobile signal might be weak at the location of Primary Generator. To address the issue, an Argent SMS Generator can be installed on a separate machine, where the […]
Version Argent Omega 2.2A-2307-B (Build: 2.2.2210.3) or later Date Tuesday, 3 October 2023 Summary When a Rule failed, it could be useful to figure what has caused it. Some common cases could be as follows: System Down Rule fails to reach a device, it could be that device is offline, or an upstream switch is […]
Version Argent Job Scheduler and Argent Queue Engine 10.0-1912-A and above Date Thursday, 21 September 2023 Summary Argent Queue Engine service may drop connection with Argent Job Scheduler with a message “Argent Queue Engine service is deactivated” This issue happens when multiple Argent Queue Engines have same license key Refer the below screenshot: Click For […]
Version Argent Omega 2.2A-2307-B (Build: 2.2.2310.2) or later Date Monday, 2 October 2023 Summary System Command Rule can test exit code and output of CLI process. However sometimes the user might require more complicated logic. Following are some examples: Rule is broken if output contains some strings but no other strings Rule is broken if […]
Version Argent Omega 2.2A-2307-A and earlier Date Monday, 2 October 2023 Summary CPU usage can spike constantly when running Relators with SYLOG Message Rule. It is especially obvious with a busy network with more than a hundred SYSLOG messages received every minute. The issue has been addressed in Argent Omega 2.2A-2307-B (Build: 2.2.2310.2) Technical Background […]
Version Argent Omega 2.2A-2307-A and earlier Date Monday, 2 October 2023 Summary When running Argent Compliance Automator Rules, user may find that the ‘ARCHIVE_DATA’ folder accumulates thousands of pending ARC files. File time can be hours or days old. Other symptoms include empty Compliance reports, high CPU and memory usage of SQL Server process, etc. […]
Version Argent Omega all versions Date Sunday, 1 October 2023 Summary After upgrading Argent Omega to a new version, user might encounter warning message ‘Old version UI is used (Current engine: vxx.xx.xx.xx). Please Clear Browser Cache And Restart UI’. This is by design, not an error. To address the issue, take steps shown as follows: […]
Version Argent Omega 2.2A-2307-B (Build: 2.2.2309.30) and later Date Sunday, 1 October 2023 Summary It could be useful to refer to built-in keywords and CMDB-X node properties in PowerShell Action Script. There are built-in menu items for the purpose. Click For Full Size A sample Rule and test result are like following: Click For Full […]
Version Argent Omega 2.2A-2307-B and later Date Sunday, 1 October 2023 Summary Using Rule parameters is very useful to make Rule generic and reduce accidental mistake by end user. For example, using threshold parameter in CPU Rule allows checking the performance metric for different scenarios. Take following steps to add parameter. Step 1: Clicking on […]
Version Argent Omega 2.2A-2307-B (Build: 2.2.2309.29) and later Date Friday, 29 September 2023 Summary Node Extended Properties in CMDB-X allows to define any key/value pairs as custom properties. User is no longer limited to product predefined node properties. This greatly enhances the usefulness of CMDB-X as enterprise inventory. Node Extended Properties can be for the […]
Version Argent Omega 2.2A-2307-B (Build: 2.2.2309.29) and later Date Friday, 29 September 2023 Summary Argent Omega supports Keywords for customized alert context. The feature enables alert context customization to suit any need. User might need to include server or device properties in alert text. The following example shows how to display server domain, operating system, […]
Version Argent Omega 2.2A-2307-B (Build: 2.2.2309.29) and later Date Friday, 29 September 2023 Summary Argent Omega supports Keywords for customized alert context. The feature enables alert context customization to suit any need. Example of keywords is shown below. Click For Full Size The following Agent Omega Alerts support Keywords: Email Event Log Network Message System […]
Version Argent Omega 2.2A-2307-B (Build: 2.2.2309.28) or earlier Date Friday, 29 September 2023 Summary When using the Argent AT Migration Tool to import ArgentWhen installing Argent Omega, setup program might only show the status ‘Failed’ when prerequisites are not met for specific Tool Sets. A sample screen might look like following when PowerShell module ‘Active […]
Version Argent Omega 2.2A-2307-B (Build: 2.2.2309.27) or earlier Date Thursday, 28 September 2023 Summary When using the Argent AT Migration Tool to import Argent AT Rules into Argent Omega, it is found that only a partial set, or none, of the Windows Performance Rules are imported. Furthermore, when checking the migration logs under the Warning […]
Version Argent Advanced Technology All Versions Date Tuesday, 26 September 2023 Summary To support both 32-bit and 64-bit Oracle database server environments, Argent for Oracle requires 32-bit Oracle 12 client libraries and 32-bit Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2013 needs to be installed in the Argent Server There are two ways to install and […]