In addition to additional hardware support and performance improvements,
BotzWare 2.3 introduced the following new features and enhancements:
- New Configuration Wizard: This configuration wizard, which runs
automatically when the Advanced View is used to access the appliance after
installation, guides the user through all the steps necessary to get their new
appliance up and running.
- Camera Settings Enhancement — Interactive Mode Limit: Specifies the
maximum image resolution that will be made available to users that are using
the appliance interactively (such as viewing images from the Cameras View in
the Advanced View). This can be used to limit the performance impact that can
be caused by multiple clients with high image resolution settings accessing
your appliances interactively.
- Advanced Device Crawlers Enhancement — Delete SNMP Sensors if Not
Found: Allows the user to automatically remove previously defined
SNMP-based sensors on a target when, after a successful scan, the sensors are
found to no longer be present (no longer defined, unavailable, and so forth).
If the sensors are not deleted, they will be displayed with sensor reading
values of “N/A” or “null.”
- New Picture Export Formats feature for Send E-Mail and Send Data to FTP
Server Alert Actions: Appliances that have the BotzWare Premium Software
Module 2.3 installed can now send images captured by the appliance cameras as
JPEGs, M-JPEG AVI Files, or Signed M-JPEG AVI files. M-JPEG AVI files are
motion picture that can be played using standard media player software (such
as Windows Media Player). Signed files provide proof that the generated images
have not been tampered with or altered in any way, and are therefore more
likely to be admissible as evidence in legal proceedings.
- Block Out Masking Functionality: Appliances that have the BotzWare
Premium Software Module 2.3 installed can now configure cameras so that
specified areas of the image cannot be seen. For example, an administrator
could place a Block Out Mask over the area of the image that shows a monitor
image, thereby preventing users from seeing the information that is shown on
the monitor.
- New "Scan Now" Device Crawlers Functionality: Enables SNMP target
in Device Crawlers to be scanned on demand.
- Additional NetBotz 320 Functionality: Camera Motion Sensor and
Basic Device Crawlers are now supported by default on NetBotz 320 appliances.
- Save Audio from Alerts: Audio from alerts can now be saved in both
WAV and OGG formats.
BotzWare 2.3 also corrects the following issues:
- The BotzWare enclosureStatus OID (1.3.6.1.4.1.5528.100.2.1.1.2 + Instance
= NetBotz Enclosure Status) previously did not not return any values for
NetBotz 500, 420, or 320 appliances. It now returns the following values:
"Disconnected" and "Normal."
- The Serial Configuration utility no longer hangs when used to configure
appliances running older (pre-2.2) versions of BotzWare.
- On Camera Pod 120s and CCTV Adapter Pods, the Report Unplugged Errors
check box option no longer becomes grayed out if you've changed the Sensor
Value History value.
These new features complement the additional features and functionality that
have been delivered in the recent BotzWare 2.1, BotzWare 2.1.1, 2.1.2, 2.1.3,
2.2, 2.2.1, and 2.2.2 releases. These previously released features include:
- BotzWare 2.2 (released May 25, 2004):
- Support for Navigation Pane Folders: Folders enable you to create
virtual groups of pods and devices that can be used to simplify organization
of your various pods and devices for management purposes.
- Expanded Support for RAE Systems Devices: RAE Systems Sensors
Option is a license key-enabled BotzWare enhancement that enables you to use
a variety of RAE Systems toxic vapor and gas sensors with your appliances.
BotzWare 2.2 support the use of MultiRAE Plus, ppbRAE, miniRAE, AreaRAE, and
RAELink devices with your appliance.
- Support for Remote RAE Client/Server Communications: This
functionality enables you to aggregate the data reported by all of your
appliance-connected RAE Systems devices into a single interface, and to set
thresholds, monitor alerts, and graph data reported by the RAE Systems
devices on Remote RAE Clients just like any other sensor connected to and
supported by your appliance.
- “Alerting Sensors” Added to Navigation Pane: Alerting Sensors is
a new “virtual device” that appears in the Navigation Pane and that presents
a dynamic overview of all currently alerting sensors as reported by the
appliance as well as pods and other devices connected to the appliance.
- Ability to Lock Selection in the Navigation Pane: This new
functionality enables you to lock the Navigation Pane so that only a
specific device is selected. Once the Navigation pane is locked, you will
not be able to select any other devices from the Navigation pane until you
unlock the pane, and the Advanced View will automatically start with the
pane in the locked state.
- Network Interface Sensors Added: New sensors that specify the
link status of each network interface installed in your appliance are now
available when the appliance is selected from the Navigation Pane.
- BotzWare 2.1.3 (released May 5, 2004):
- NetBotz Wireless Receiver 120 and NetBotz THS-100 Wireless
Temperature/Humidity Sensor Support: Support for NetBotz Wireless
Receiver 120s and NetBotz THS-100 wireless temperature/humidity sensors.
- Support for RAE Systems MultiRAE Plus: Enables the addition of a
license key-enabled enhancement that permits use of RAE Systems MultiRAE
Plus toxic vapor and gas sensors with your NetBotz 500. Designed as a
“building block” system, the MultiRAE can be configured from a simple,
inexpensive Oxygen/LEL monitor all the way to an affordable five gas monitor
for total protection in toxic environments.
- Send Custom HTTP GET Alert Action: New alert action that enables
you deliver alert notifications as custom HTTP GET commands. The URL
generated as a result of the alert action is completely user definable, and
can include NetBotz macro values.
- Support for Additional WiFi Bands, Wireless Network Adapters: In
addition to supporting 802.11b WiFi communications, BotzWare 2.1.3 supports
802.11a and 802.11g. BotzWare 2.1.3 also includes support for the following
additional multiband wireless network adapters:
- D-Link Air Xpert DWL-AG650 Tri-Mode Dualband Wireless CardBus Adapter
- Netgear WAG511 Dual Band Wireless PC Card (32-bit CardBus)
- Cisco Aironet 802.11a/b/g Wireless CardBus Adapter
- BotzWare 2.1.2 (released February 12, 2004):
- Output Control: New functionality that provides user interface
and alert notification support for use with supported digital output devices
such as the NetBotz Output Relay Pod 120 and NetBotz Power Control Pods.
- Multiple Alert Profiles: Enhanced Alert Profile functionality now
enables the creation of multiple unique Alert Profiles. This enables you to
define distinctive notification or action responses for sensor thresholds.
- BotzWare Version 2.1.1 (released December 5, 2003):
- Device Crawlers: New functionality that enables you to monitor
the critical status information of up to 48 remote SNMP targets (such as
servers, routers, and switches). If any operational difficulties are noted
on a monitored target your NetBotz 500 can generate an alert notification,
enabling you to quickly address the problem.
- Support for Advanced Device Crawlers: Enables the addition of a
license key-enabled enhancement to Device Crawlers that greatly extends your
ability to monitor the operational status of your SNMP targets. Advanced
Device Crawlers extends the capabilities of Basic Device Crawlers to provide
far more detailed device-specific information and to enable OID-specific
monitoring and alerting.
- BotzWare Version 2.1 (released October 23, 2003):
- Serial Device Support: Provides an extensible framework for the
management of serial devices. With this functionality, NetBotz 500s can
detect and manage multiple serial-class devices (including supported modems,
GPS devices, and various RS-232 and RS-485 attached devices). Supported
serial devices can be connected using the NetBotz 500 PC Card slot,
directly to a USB port, or through a number of supported USB-to-Serial
adapter cables.
- PPP Support: Provides support for point-to-point protocol network
connectivity using supported wired or GSM/GPRS modems.
- SMS Messaging Support: When used in conjunction with a supported
GSM/GPRS modem, an additional alert action is enabled that permits delivery
of alert notifications as SMS messages.
- Support for NetBotz CCTV Adapter Pods: Designed for use with your
NetBotz 500 base station and a single closed circuit television (CCTV) or
other video source, the CCTV Adapter Pod accepts multi format S-Video and
Composite Video and features DIN, BNC and RCA input jacks. This pod also
features a USB port that enables the pod to be tethered to the base station
using a standard USB cable. Using the CCTV Adapter Pod, your analog video
source is digitally converted and integrated with the NetBotz physical
security solution. Streaming audio (using the pod’s integrated microphone or
an external microphone connected to the pod) is also available.
- Support for NetBotz Particle Sensor PS100: The NetBotz Particle
Sensor PS100 enables your NetBotz appliance to monitor a location for the
presence or dust and other particulates larger than 1 micro meter.
- Support for BAE Systems ChemSentry: Enables the addition of a
license key-enabled enhancement that permits use of BAE Systems ChemSentry
Chemical Warfare Sensors with your NetBotz 500.ChemSentrys provide both
exposure level (i.e. cumulative dose) and concentration (milligrams per
cubic meter) readings for nerve, blister, blood, and interferent agents.
- Support for Supported NMEA-Compliant GPS Receivers: Enables your
NetBotz 500 to report status and readings from supported GPS receivers. GPS
receivers associate location information (such as latitude, longitude,
altitude, and so forth) with alert data, which can be useful for mobile
NetBotz applications.
- IP Filtering: Provides full support for IP-address based packet
filtering, allowing for an additional level of protection against illegal
access or denial-of-service attacks.
- Improved SSL Security: The SSL implementation used by the
NetBotz 500 has been upgraded to OpenSSL 0.9.7c, providing support for
256-bit AES with RSA and SHA1 and 128-bit AES with RSA and SHA1.
- HTTP Compression: The NetBotz 500 Basic View and Advanced View
interfaces now support HTTP compression, significantly reducing non-picture
related traffic and improving interface performance when used over slower
network interfaces (such as PPP or ISDN).
For more information about specific NetBotz appliances, select the desired
model from list below:
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NetBotz is proud to announce the availability of the NetBotz Web Services
Interface Toolkit. BotzWare Web Interfaces are intended to provide a set
of common, programmer-friendly APIs to 3rd party product and solution
developers, as well as end customers. For more information about the BotzWare
Web Services interfaces and to obtain your own copy of the toolkit please go
check the
NetBotz Web Services Toolkit forum.
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BotzWare 1.3.9, the latest BotzWare release for use with 310/400 Series
NetBotz appliances, is now available. BotzWare 1.3.9 is a maintenance release
that includes performance improvements and minor bug fixes.
Issues Addressed in this Release:
- IBM Global Services security scanner no longer causes web authentication
issues (resulting in appliance reboots or inability to authenticate a web
login) on NetBotz appliances.
- Appliances now correctly handle multiline response messages from mdaemon
implementations (such as NetSilicon mail client). Appliances will now properly
read response lines (i.e read until end-of-line, check for continuation
character, keep reading lines until no continuation character, and so on).
- NetBotz 310C models can now generate images quicker than once every 20
seconds without Enhancements Add-On.
- Camera Motion settings on 300/310 model appliances with Surveillance
enabled are no longer lost
- "Alert cleared" notifications are now sent to those who have received
alert notifications for a given alert
- Added a textual SMS macro for Advanced Device Crawlers data
- The Advanced View now behaves correctly when used with authenticated HTTP
proxies.
- Proxy Hosts can now be un-set.
- Added a label field to help identify the internal temperature sensor when
one or more external temperature sensors have been connected to the appliance.
- E-mail fields for SNMP targets can now accept more than 66 characters
- Alert macro configuration for some alert macros no longer will cause an
"unsupported" error after submitting.
- Return to Normal Notifications are no longer sent for 3rd alert level
recipients if the return to normal occurs after the 3rd level recipients have
been notified.
For more information about specific NetBotz appliances, select the desired
model from list below:
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When used in conjunction with your NetBotz 500 and one or
more THS-100 Wireless Temperature & Humidity Sensors, a Wireless Receiver 120
can be used to monitor the humidity, temperature, and dew point in locations to
which standard wired sensors cannot be deployed. THS-100 Wireless Temperature &
Humidity sensors also include packet loss sensor data, providing valuable data
for deployment of your sensors and also enabling you to monitor your sensors for
unexpected interference. A single NetBotz 500 can host multiple Wireless
Receiver 120s, and can receive data from up to 100 THS-100 sensors total.
THS-100 Wireless Temperature & Humidity Sensors and Wireless Receiver 120s are
designed for use only with the NetBotz 500
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NetBotz Power Control Pods, when used in conjunction with BotzWare 2.1.2's
Output Control functionality, enable you to control the power supplied to
devices. Power control actions can be executed manually through the Advanced
View and Basic View interfaces, or can be configured as automatic alert actions
in response to a threshold event. The following NetBotz Power Control Pods are
available:
- Power Control Pod 115 (controls 5 outlets @ 115VAC)
- Power Control Pod 235 (controls 5 outlets @ 230VAC)
- Power Control Pod 110 (controls 1 outlet @ 115VAC, 15A)
- Power Control Pod 230 (controls 1 outlet @ 230VAC, 15A)
NetBotz Power Control Pods are RS232-based devices, and come complete with a
USB-to-serial port adapter to add serial ports to your appliance and a
female-to-female null modem cable for connecting the pod to the USB-to-serial
port adapter. Power Control Pods are designed for use only with the
NetBotz 500 and the NetBotz 420.
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NetBotz Output Relay Pod 120s, when used in conjunction with BotzWare 2.1.2's
Output Control functionality, enable you to use your NetBotz 500 to turn a
variety of devices on or off. Relay output actions can be executed manually
through the Advanced View and Basic View interfaces, or can be configured as
automatic alert actions in response to a threshold event. Up to 4 NetBotz Output
Relay Pod 120s can be connected to the base station, enabling you to control up
to 64 relay-based devices. Output Relay Pod 120s can be connected directly to
the USB port using a standard USB extender cable, or connected to a powered USB
hub that is connected to the USB port. The Output Relay Pod 120 is designed for
use only with the NetBotz 500 and the NetBotz 420.
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The CCTV Adapter Pod 120 is designed for the customer who wants to utilize
CCTV cameras with the NetBotz physical threat monitoring system. This enables
images from CCTV cameras to take advantage of NetBotz 500 capabilities such as
motion sensing, alert image capture settings, and alert customization. The CCTV
Adapter Pod provides images of up to 640x480 resolution, 24-bit color, and up to
30 frames per second (color and resolution may be limited by CCTV video source).
The CCTV camera connects to either the BNC, RCA, or S-Video input connector on
the pod; video source input can be NTSC, PAL, or SECAM format. The pod has a USB
port to connect it to the NetBotz 500 base station, and also has external
microphone, speaker, and door switch jacks. The CCTV Adapter Pod is designed for
use only with the NetBotz 500 and the NetBotz 420.
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