Active SMART

ActiveSMART Release Notes

Version 2.62 released July 25, 2008

• Improved ActiveSMART service management
• Added multy-user mode for ActiveSMART agent module
• Added S.M.A.R.T. log size limit and rotation
• Added support for custom SMTP server ports (for example mail.server.com:port)
• Fixed error with grayed out preferences
• Fixed service crash while notification
• Fixed minor bugs

Version 2.6 released July 20, 2007

• Windows Vista compatible
• Application structure rewritten, now it's completely service based
• Added SSL authentication for the Email notifications
• Fixed bug with custom notifications
• Fixed some minor bugs

Version 2.51 released November 1, 2006

• Completely rewritten GUI. Now it's more graphical and user friendly
• Added Hard drive Health indicator
• Added Hard drive Performance indicator
• Added Hard drive Temperature indicator
• Added Disk Summary Status
• Added Disk Status description
• Added Temperature logging
• Added Temperature history chart, so the user can check the past hard drive temperature
• Added Attribute detailed information window
• Added built-in Attribute description information, attribute flags information, and attribute status
• Added attribute lifetime chart simulation
• Log file can be saved as CSV file and analyzed using Microsoft Excel
• Fixed bugs

Version 2.42 released August 9, 2004

• Added emergency shutdown (hibernate) option
• Added a subject line to e-mail setup
• Added support for Fahrenheit for temperature display
• Added option to test notification settings
• Fixed the wrong path to the event log messages file
• Fixed bug with wrong default critical temperature
• Fixed bug with wrong program startup path in some cases

Version 2.41 released January 15, 2004

• Added full support for the Large Fonts mode (120 dpi)
• The disk check interval now can be set from 1 minute to 240 hours
• When the program pops up with an advisory that a value has changed, it leaves an AsmartCore.exe process (only in Windows XP). This bug is fixed
• Fixed some visual apearance bugs while using Windows XP themes

Version 2.4 released December 10, 2003

• Added new S.M.A.R.T. attribute names
• Added resizing to the main window
• Added the SMART Raw data viewer to view the raw value of the SMART attributes (Disk Info tab)
• Added the disk serial number to the log file to distinguish hard drives with identical model names
• Added the baloon tooltip for the Active SMART system tray icon with the brief results of the last SMART check
• Added support for hard drives that larger then 137 Gb
• Added support for Windows Server 2003
• Added authentication support to the internal SMTP client
• Added a checkbox to enable/disable logging for particular attributes (Custom notification settings window)
• Active SMART supports up to 12 IDE drives
• The most recent events of the log file (Log tab) are shown first now
• The string "When value equals" changed to "When value below" (Disk Info tab)
• Improved internal SMTP client
• Fixed bug in the Email notification feature
• Fixed bug inside SMTP client that resulted in error "Failed to connect to SMTP server"
• Fixed bug inside SMTP client - email feature sometimes didn't work in the background mode
• The program crashed on some systems when the SMART Info tab is opened - this bug is fixed
• The Pop up mode did not work in case of Critical notification mode - this bug is fixed
• Minor bugfixes

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