We’ve also decided to sneak in some additional features to more fully round out this latest version. In addition to the features announced previously, we are pleased to be able to announce the following enhancements to the Device Manager.

1) Improved Server Metrics
Now, summary information is presented along with the device view, and additional metrics such as Disk I/O activity is tracked and graphed.

2) Monitor alarm snoozing.
Doing maintenance on a customers infrastructure? A particular server? Want to put it into ‘maintenance mode’ for a few hours to that alarms don’t go off while service is interrupted? Go ahead and snooze the monitor during your maintenance activities.

3) Syslog integration
Many of our DE customers utilize syslog extensively. The 1.6 version of Ubersmith comes with a basic syslog module that will allow you to integrate Ubersmith with an external syslog server (such as php-syslog-ng).

4) General SQL speedups
With each release, Ubersmith is being used by larger and larger organizations. We’ve made some improvements and optimizations that help Ubersmith run faster for people with thousands of devices.

The bad news is that with these additional features and final testing, we’re going to be pushing our public release date back by two weeks. While we realize that this is frustrating since we haven’t put out a new release in a while, we hope the wait will be worth it, and we’re confident that it’s the right decision. We want to make sure that the latest and greatest from Ubersmith will still be as stable and bug free as our customers have come to expect.

Ubersmith DE 1.6 will now be publicly available to new customers on June 16th.

We will be contacting existing Ubersmith DE customers to coordinate upgrades starting June 12 2008. Further, starting June 2nd, private previews will be available to existing DE clients who want to get a sneak peak of what’s coming down the pipeline.

For any additional questions on new features, bug fixes, or to schedule your preview of the new feature set, please dont hesitate to contact us at 877-438-8237, or shoot us an email at support@ubersmith.com.

Bug Fixes and Tweaks

Client Manager

• When generating a manual invoice, if automatic credit card charging has been disabled, the interface will no longer offer it as an option.
• The quantity of a service will be listed in the services list in a client’s account page allowing for more accurate views of products with multiple quantities.
• Improved error handling when adding SSL certs.

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If you are not a current user and would like to check out the new release, you can sign up for a two week free trial of Ubersmith Pro here and Ubersmith Lite here.

While this is a stable release, there may still be small bugs present. Please let us know any issues you run into by emailing support@ubersmith.com.

As always, we thank you for your support of our little program. We know it has been a long wait in between releases but we hope that you will find that it was worth it.

Features/Updates to be added will include but are not limited to:
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• Support Manager Database Overhaul
• PDF Invoice Overhaul
  - Remove Dependencies on External Applications
  - Allow Emailing of PDF Invoices
  - Improved Invoice Formatting
• Server Performance Metrics Monitoring
• New Report: Sent Invoices

Enhancements

• Improved support for eNom ’specialty TLDs’
• Automated domain renewals
• Weather Goose ‘WXGOOS 2′ Support
• Improved Default Monitor Settings
• Add Support for CyberSource Gateway
• ‘Download as CSV’ for Some Reports
• Add ability to flag metadata fields as ‘required’
• Sort child services under their parent on invoices
• Add support for pre-billing quarterly, semi-annual and annual services 1 month in advance
• Add ability to charge credit card on invoice due date
• De-associate any devices and return IP address space when a client is deactivated
• Send ‘payment received’ notification to client when a payment is made via scheduled/retried charge
• Support CDGCommerce QuantumGateway for credit card processing

Bugfixes

• Properly handle cPanel 11 XML-API
• Correct PayPal payment handling issue
• Prevent clients from attempting to pay an invoice twice via the ‘quick pay’ link in invoice notifications
• Correct issue where invoice detailed items showed incorrect date range
• Fix graphing issues when switch labels contain spaces
• Correctly log deletion of client comments
• Correctly determine $PATH when running under php-cgi
• Expand information stored when logging device edit/deletion