What's New

3.6 Rev 1 Build 7

Fix update problem of the data server status for the Alert OPC server.
Fix problem of acknowledgement/mask by DDE when a request is made before the advise.
Automatic configuration of the tag type (numeric or string) when a new OPC tag is added.
Fix update problem of the displayed list.
Management of the alarm’s group: fix status problem of the group and fix problem of transmission in redundancy / client-server.
Optimization of the exchange in redundancy.
Add traces of XML transmission of the alarm status.
Modification of the enumeration and display of the COM Port (display of the modem name obtained from the register)
Redundant items and not redundant items: always sent to the redundant Alert but only displayed according to the machine.
Alarm’s group : take the correct group at the creation of the tag
Action « play vocal message »: fix diffusion problem of the message.
Modification to accept the frame reception that contains a NULL character.
Reception of value on tags that have link failure status: don’t put the link as valid after the reception of the value. Otherwise the variable DDEFail is reset and the links aren’t ever made again. (the led supervision stays in yellow)
Vocal server: Fix problem of wrong string « Only announce unacknowledged alarms”.
Initialization of Alert: Add the version in the eventlog.
Initialization of Alert : add the information « embedding » (service or DCOM call) in the eventlog
Initialization of Alert: Add information in the eventlog for demo or registered mode.
Add the management of alias in OPC.
Add new fields displayed in the alarms’ list: name of the schedule associated to the tag and information of the non redundant variable.
Removal of the trace of masks / unmask of the tags on the remote station.
Display of the alarm’s table, alarm’s historic and call log: removal of the reinitialization of the filter on alarm or each time the configuration is changed.
New configuration : removal of the customized buttons
API: new attributes: TAG_NUMVALUE (read numeric value in double format), TAG_VALUE_TYPE (read/write value type (numeric/string)) and TAG_VALUEQUALITY (read value quality).
Add notification mediator (and OPC) when the validity of a tag has changed.
Add new language : Portuguese
Reduced duty and reset/ack message: don’t call on reset and ack in reduced duty mode when the alarm has a low priority.
Fix problem on reception of DDE notification in block mode with a wrong block format.

GSM driver (Version 2.1.0.4)
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Modification to sequence the request AT+CSQ, +CMGL and +CMGR (avoid problem of recovery)
Modification to handle the command AT+CMGL (request message received) directly in the driver and not in Alert.
Modification of the initialization of the GSM modem for the processing of previously received SMS

Module OAP : Fix problem of no more notification from the Ascom OAP central after a couple of days (28 days).

Fix problem of initialization of the OPC Thread on 2003 server.
Fix problem of compatibility old filter format in OPC AE (doubling the action of reset and acknowledgment).
Fix problem with the option “Overwrite already defined Alert properties”.
Modification to accept the attribute OPC AE that contains spaces (replace by “_”).
Fix problem of close of all the links (re initialization of OPC AE)
Getting the type of the selected variable (dialog box browsing OPC)
Treatment of the quality in the notification of the OPC server according to the state of the tag (valid or not valid).
Notification of the tag value by the OPC server according to the format of the tag (VT_BSTR or VT_R8).

Fix problem when receiving a message with a non printable character.
Fix problem of re initialization of the program and on close of the programs with an active socket.
Modification of the treatment of the SEND and RECEIVE functions with the parameter « coding=0 » for the management of binary message.
Modification of function of string’s allocation for the management of ANSI/UNICODE.
Fix problem unloading / loading of the language library.
Add tests of validity of the running program to avoid crashes.
Fix problem of multiple session logins with the Alert object.
Fix problem of string’s length with a NULL character in the function SEND.

Add the possibility to select the data type (DDE, OPC or other)
Add the possibility to import the data server

Fix problem of mask / unmask of the alarm from PCVUE to Alert.
Add the possibility to choose the way of mask (from Alert to PCVUE or from PCVUE to Alert)
Add the management of the user’s name for the acknowledgement and mask.
Fix problem with the dynamic message when the message provided by PCVUE is empty

Fix problem of importation of the synthesis alarms.

Add the reduced duty management in the schedule.
Add a status bar that displays the warning of alarms on all pages
Modification of the management of the sound to be compatible with all navigators (Before it was working only with IE).
Add compatibility with IE8.

Fix problem of dongle detection.
Jericho makes now several attempts before saying that it doesn’t see the dongle. (as Alert)

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PROGTIME 1.6
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NETSENTINEL 3.4 Build 11
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3.6 Rev 1 Build 6

Modification of alarm condition treatment with string value: comparison always non case sensitive.
Correction crash when a user call is deleted during the call of another user.
Correction crash when setting the trace level for redundancy protocol with a value higher than 5.
Alarms with call disabled are no more transmitted (except through the vocal server).
Correction resource allocation issue in case of failure when creating a listen socket.
Correction display issue with event log when changing of date.
String reception: management of strings with NULL characters (binary strings).
Modification of the name of COM log files (PCOMx.log). With the old name, the system tried to open the COM port.
Correction issue when changing interface language (resource handle not updated).
Variables of type string: the conditions INFVAR and SUPVAR are removed.
Message Processor scripts with manual option: correction to be able to manually launch several scripts.
User call not acknowledged after timeout: suppression of the service messages from the message list.
RSS dialog box: fields resized to see all the labels.
Suppression of updating of the RSS file when no FTP server is defined.
Transmission of masking to the server, also when masking is delayed.
Test of file existence when attaching an audio file to a tag.
Correction enabling/disabling of button to browse for an audio file.
When creating a tag group using the button "...", the group must be first selected in the combo box.
Updating of alarm status (mapping + groups + data server) after tag modification.
Updating of tag groups: update of parent groups.
Adding traces application closure.
Vocal server: correction issue with option "unique identifier" when the numeric id of the user was not the same as its OId.

AlertX module (Version 2.0.1.1)
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Keep Alive added to maintain open session.

Correction issue when closing the driver (unusable ports).
Correction issue when receiving an SMS during the message transmission.
Deactivation of the line test for GSM modems configured with a signal min value set to 0.
Test of signal level: fault indicator is set only after having forced a CSQ request to the modem.
Modification management of CSQ request (to avoid collision issue with message transmission).

Management of re-invite added.
Adding of logs to the SIP driver.
Correction error 603 on incoming call after a modification of the driver parameters.

New driver to send messages to control centers using the SIA protocol (through a SIA modem).

File transfer flag only set for calls with file transfer.

Suppression message boxes: replaced by logs in the journal.
Correction crash when sending several alarms to several users.
Correction transmission of several attached files (file not found).

Correction issue when passing file path parameters.

Correction issue when writing watchdog.
Modification of the default value of the watchdog resource.
Modification of the function to forec a DO.
Adding message when receiving the call of clip with its name.

Management of alarm notifications with dynamic importation by filter processing.
Correction crash under Windows XP
Modification of link management (links established at initialization)
Correction problem with items having a device name containing the character ':' (device-address separator)

Correction issue with socket disconnection.
Correction of memory leaks on script program closure.
Correction crash when deleting a Messsage Processor prototype.
Correction memory leaks on application closure.
Adding a condition to process a filter.
Adding management of labels attached to numeric values (in expression definition).
Correction of the "Execute" function.

Correction problem of OPC server stopped after 20 min (session timeout).
Modification treatment when closing the OPC thread.
Correction issue of OPC links locked when closing some OPC servers.
Correction issue of aleatory Alert freezing on polling open/closure.
Correction issue when writing an OPC tag with an unknown type (VT_EMPTY). Type forced in function of the type of the written value.
Correction issue with the OPC server when receiving empty notifications.
Correction issues with OPC subscriptions and reading.
Adding a condition to process a filter.
Adding management of labels attached to numeric values (in expression definition).
Adding traces (closure of DLL instance).

Modifications for compatibility with Citect V7.10.
Implementation multi-servers redundant.
Adding a condition to process a filter.
Adding management of labels attached to numeric values (in expression definition).

Adding a condition to process a filter.
Adding management of labels attached to numeric values (in expression definition).

New mediator for Application Server (Wonderware).

Adding capability to import the tag name property.
Adding capability to import masking information (masking variable + condition).

Correction problem of WINCC link stopped after 20 min (session timeout).

3.6 Rev 1 Build 5

Modification establishment of OPC connections (problem of multiple connections on a same tag).
Suppression traces of tag link failure when the data server link failure has been traced.
Correction to set led connection to red when restoring connections on a data server with another data server failed (led remained yellow).
Adding initialization of mediator callback notification when activating a new mediator.
Adding management of a mediator replacement list (m_WinCC6 -m_WinCC).
Schedules: file loaded on remote command even in case of derogation (new configuration or client or redundancy).
Correction base group and relief group without team, crash on return of an active team for the base group.
GSM modem: prevent infinite loops on all the ports by managing a maximum number of connection errors before counting it as a call attempt.
GSM modem: correction problem of systematic line failure when the GSM modem doesn’t send CSQ notifications.
GSM modem: utilization of the line test cycle to perform CSQ request when not receiving CSQ notifications.
Line failure: suppression of automatic port reinitialization in order to not suppress the fault indication. To suppress the line failure indication, a line test must be performed.
Correction update of line test period (reset if test option not checked).
Before a call, when requiring for the driver availability: to specify the sub-driver.
In reduce duty: call ended for a priority alarm, correction case of priority alarm acknowledgment before calling for a non priority alarm (idem for alarm set and acknowledged in the same time)
Correction problem of socket connection from a driver (regression build 4)
Adding function "IsAvailableSocket" to test socket availability.
Alarm groups and base groups: correction group not saved and no change of base group from the tag property dialog box.
Alarm groups and associated audio files: vocal server screen, display correction.
API, function EnumObject for tags: return reference instead of multi-language name.
Restoration of line test option for GSM modem (true by default) from the Alert ini file.

Correction crash US interface (when opening the connection dialog)

Adding a parameter to define the maximum number of simultaneous communications for a
sub-driver.

Adding TEMPORARY option on email reception in order to be able to create temporary alarms.
Correction of the transmission of the instruction file in the body of the mail.

Correction transmission of a command on the last point of a D0 or A0.

Disconnection management improved (to avoid infinite ringing) with a Dialogic card.

Correction problem notification of the call acknowledgment status to the operator level.

Adding management of closure of the "Alarm Loggin Runtime" process (problem no Shutdown" notification from WinCC) to detect supervision failure.
Modifications WinCC 7 comptibility
Run-time linking with WinCC API dll (only one dll for all WinCC version)

Adding cluster management for version 7.10.
Filters: adding help management for expression definition dialog box.

Modifications managment of IP scripts IP and adding manual launching of IP scripts (except listen IP scripts).
Alert.sco: prevent infinite loops in scripts with EnumObject function, return an error if input strings and output string are the same.
Alert.sco: doesn’t change the tag type on a SetTagValue
FTPClient.sco: bug correction when browsing for a file in a sub-directory.
Filters: adding help management for expression definition dialog box.

Support versions 7 and 8.

Modification of connection treatment to avoid multiple tag connections.
Adding destructor of the OPCServer derived class in order to call virtual functions of the derived class.
Modification group disconnection and advise/unadvise management (problem "call of a pure virtual function" on the OPC server).
Adding test of null pointer after calling the function GetItemID (crash when the server doesn’t process the function without returning an error code).
Correction problem restoration of connections (reset flag)
Adding call to the OPC function "RemoveGroup" during the disconnection of the (problem with some OPC servers)
Filters: adding help management for expression definition dialog box.Wizcon mediator
Adding possibility to manage sound files in filter configuration.PcVue mediator
Correction problem tag importation with OPC option checked or alarm not managed by the mediator (DDE link).

3.6 Rev 1 Build 4

Authorization to add a tag to a data server managed by a mediator.
Retrieving tags from database with temporary flag.
Adding capability of writing a tag from a mediator.
Problem of management of tag connections with a mediator corrected.
Correction crash drivers with long names.
Correction ping-pong problem in history display with comments.
Do not transmit in redundancy ACK or NAK as explicit call acknowledgment: risk of call acknowledged and group warned before the disconnection, so risk of alarm acknowledgment on the redundant station with vocal communication still active on the main station.
Transmission call status in redundancy: transmitting the list of alarms broadcasted during the acknowledged calls (to avoid new calls after switching for calls already acknowledged).
Adding call functions MedSetLinkEx after MedSetLink for mediators that manage the both.
Event log display: correction selection of the date after tab change. Refreshment forced for the current day if the list is locked.
Correction schedule update before display: to avoid the suppression of modifications when selecting a team in the tree view.
Modifications connection treatment and setup dialog boxes in English/German.
Modification of treatment to close connection with tags (problem of multiple PostThreadMessage)
Modification management of IP sockets (trace connection/disconnection, reading address of the connected socket, memory management...)
Vocal server setup dialog box: max number of Id digits set to 9.
Adding format string parameter to only encode control characters or all the special XML characters (problem " encoded as <QQ in traces)
Modification management script launching (Init button and menu command)
Modification management of port logs to extend to all ports
Correction problem activation/deactivation plug-in
Modification management notifications tag value (OPC...) to avoid using the Windows message queue.
Redundancy: bidirectional watchdog. Correction the case where the main thread of Alert is blocked and redundancy doesn’t switch.
Correction problem of change of listen socket port when reciving a connection request.
Adding option trace socket connections/disconnections ("TraceSocket" in "Options") to validate the trace display (not validated by par default).
Correction closure of connections when no tag is advised in a station.
Adding redundancy failure when the watchdog of the remote station is no more received.
Modification socket management to wait for connection from the Message Processor (notification connection OK or not)
Adding AsyncSelect(0) before closing a socket derived from AsyncSocket (problem trace in event log).

Setup: always send the full type to avoid Unicode problems.

ESPA 4.4.4 driver (1.1 build 7):

Correction problem of saving of message format parameters for sub-drivers.
TAP driver
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Adding option to truncate long messages (Alphapage problem)

Correction problem of group importation and memory management of VARIANTS
Correction problem of Wizcon disconnection

Correction problem of group importation and memory management of VARIANTS

OPCAE: Correction problem of group importation and memory management of VARIANTS

Correction problem of group importation and memory management of VARIANTS
Modification management of IP interface:
Possibility to connect alternatively to different addresses (adding functions CONNECT and DISCONNECT)
Possibility to read the address of the connected socket (adding function GETPEERNAME)
Correction bug SENDTO (parameter "coding" by default not initialized to 0)
Modification function CONNECT (socket) to wait connection OK or not.

3.6 Rev 1 Build 3

Open configuration dialog box: correction problem opening old configuration not saved as ".abf" file.
Vocal server in multi stations: on remote stations, adding possibility to be identified with a station ID to distinguish multi-station and local operators.
Correction memory leaks on DDE disconnection.
Management of priority alarms in vocal: adding priority order of user calls.
Automatic suppression of instruction files: only when deleting the tags.
Adding possibility to select the TTS user dictionary from Alert interface.
Compilation client with modifications for management of priority alarms in vocal.
Correction problem of alarm value display in client station history.
Correction problem of event log display after language switching.
Correction problem when updating value of string tags.
Correction problem management connection led with mediators.
Load only the topics of the selected day for reports.
Modification configurations with default values (acknowledgment, value, group call action) to display in grayed the current default value.
Adding a vocal option (configuration in "Usage" tab) to announce or not the acknowledged alarms.
Modification of the global variable name ("g_XXX")
Correction: flag name reversed, the password is not encrypted by default.
Adding test tag initialized during the data server connection test (problem OPCAE tags)
Adding function to test mediator active in function of the polling status of the attached data server (problem establishment of connections on discarded data servers).
Correction problem SMSC number saving (GSM).
Adding treatment CME Error (GSM) in communication to reinitialize the modem and pass to the next modem.
Modification initialization of the auto SMS format to forcing it priority in PDU format.
Adding new API function: GetSerialNumber.
Correction problem sending command to Clip driver.
Empty team and null timeout to retry group call: suppression of infinite loop.
History and priority alarms: optimization of the database management and correction (history limited to only one alarm): only on server station.
Correction management of GSM modem failures.
Correction crash when calling a relief group.
Initialization CAPI dialog box: incoming calls selected by default in vocal (not without selection).
Adding management of the progress bar for the disconnections.
Schedule screen: automatic selection of the team in function of the tree view selection.
Correction problem updating counters of data server when suppressing a tag.
AlertItem: all authorized in data server context.
Driver list: alphabetic sorted.

Correction message transmission: one port by driver, one message at a time.
Set error status only when the port is not in initial state.
Correction mass message transmission: Alert blocking and wrong message distribution due to a list not destroyed.
Rewriting message management with call progress information.
Management of several simultaneous calls.
Adding counters of message transmission attempts.
Modification event log traces: indication of the message with addressee number.
Correction 3301 with one message.

Management of dynamic keys.
Saving encrypted passwords.
Management addresses as extension with dynamic translation in the database or as IP addresses.

Correction read request in the base.
Correction bug acknowledgment on receipt of delivery report + configuration option from user interface.

Correction problem of message transmission.
Correction problem of user name transmission

Adding transmission of user password.

Orthographic corrections (dialog boxes)
Adding possibility to modify the SMTP and POP IP ports from the user interface.

Adding temporization to recover the user registration after a PABX disconnection.

Correction the message transmission to the message processor.

Modification of the default baud rate : 115200 instead of 9600.

Adding transmission of attached files.

Update code from the version 3.6
Correction problems in demo mode.

Correction crash at closure time due to a timer not deleted.
OXEPaging driver
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Adding dialnumber information for error report.

Correction problem importation of user fields in static.
Correction problem saving / restoring instruction file in filters.
Adding connection with Wizcon 7.6

Adding possibility to read XML files in UTF8 format.

Correction problem connection fault when receiving the string "?E..."

Correction problem when the date is not provided by the OPC server (case with iFix)
Correction crash on disconnection of an OPC server.
Correction problem connection establishment
OPCAE : Correction problem disconnection server

Correction problems connections and management of Citect versions
Correction problem management of instructions file with filters

Correction password not encrypted by default.

Correction problem management of instructions file with filters

3.6 Rev 1 Build 2

Deactivation of priority alarms in vocal.
Correction crash when an alarm is set during a report edition.

3.6 Rev 1 Build 1

Adding new OEM license for JCI.
Mannagement of OEM licenses with specific resources.
Adding test validity of the alarm pointer to avoid a crash when the alarm is acknowledged after pressing 7.
Derogation: adding test to verify the derogation team belongs to the on call group.
Tag creation through API: station taken into account.
Transmission of the alarm comment to redundant/client stations.
Calls and delayed calls: when a new alarm is set during a communication, the call is performed only if the alarm message has not been transmitted.
Vocal drivers (SIP), with time stamping, return the absolute path for time stamp AND sound file.
Unicode bug: reception of alarms in DDE.
Modification of the tag type (numeric or string) for variables (neither event, nor alarms) taken into account.
Voice calls: do not take into account DTMF codes received before complete port initialization (MSG_CONNECT) else the vocal commands are enabled.
Sound repetition in local: files removed from the queue only one time.
Control number of backups: name given by the user taken into account (not only count of "Backup_" radicals).
Modification mutex protection when deleting group items
Adding a driver request message to retrieve some Alert parameters.
Adding identification option on outgoing call by unique identifier code.
Voice drivers: manage the selection of voice driver capable through a mask on the mode (not the id) of sub-driver.
Access to data servers by XML.
Tag suppression: also delete the associated alarms and calls.
Modification management of operating windows: windows deletion replaced by hidden windows to avoid crashes on AlertClient.
Adding purge alarm and call history lists when they are not displayed.
Correction problem of periodic DDE request + update counter on request.
Getting status of a tag audio file: returns 2 if audio file synthesized, 1 if native sound file, -1 if waiting for end of synthesis, and 0 if no sound data.
Adding counter max time between modification updates.
Adding system button for progress loading dialog.
Correction crash when executing a command that generate an alarm that itself activates a new command.
Correction problem covered buttons in connection dialog box.
Correction problem time connection establishment (counter display).
Correction problem display initialization (tabs).
Correction problems display reinitialization on tab change (event log...).
Correction problem reinitialization of OPC connections.
Correction problem initialization timeouts after connection establishment.

Report modifications of 3.6 builds

Adding possibility to manage a header of MTY message.

Adding management of Alert parameters.
Send SDP requests for INVITE without offer.
During incoming calls without SDP offer on INVITE: precise the payload to use.
Welcome message in SIP: adding capability to send the synthesized message.
Adding possibility to have several sub-drivers.

Adding test driver availability before opening the port.
Test initialization of the CAPI object.
Test empty queue only for the concerned port.

When no short message is defined for OXEPaging, it is replaced by the truncated long message.
Returns of call and alarm acknowledgments: coded in hexadecimal. For reset, the alarm id is not sent to avoid alarm acknowledgments on telephone response.

Correction for UNICODE compatibility.

Adding request to call manager to retrieve the IP addresses of the telephone sets.

Correction problem mapping restoration.
Adding double-click management on mapping list.
Correction validation of the "Options" button if the dialog box is multi prototypes.
Correction bug importation multiple on-call groups.
Adding management of multi-stations users.
Adding possibility to import on-call group with a call delay.
Adding possibility to import audio files.
Correction problem importation of acknowledgment and reset messages.
Correction problem update field after edition.

Adding management of on-line help.
Run-time linking with Citect library.
Compatibility version 7.0

Correction crash when closing OPC connections (regression)
Notification to OPC server of alarm call status: option added to notify or not the reset of call status.
OPC AE: Correction crash when OPC server is not defined in the filter.

Adding coding "Ansi coded Unicode" (nCoding = 2) in functions SEND and SENDTO to be able to send binary strings coded in a Unicode string.
Correction of the operation "string addition" to accept strings with null characters.

Report of modifications of version 3.5 rev 3.
Cimplicity mediator
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Creation of alarm condition: management of type string / numeric.

Management of station display.
The Alert logo is now customizable.
The access rights to visualize the history are now applied.
Transmission of the user name when masking/unmasking.
Correction crash if several groups with same id.
Correction problem opening instructions files when there is no virtual directory.
Management of alarm reset for DATI alarms
Image button not displayed for not DATI alarms
Suppression of comments on inactive and acknowledged alarm.