Clicking any of the colored dots in the display matrix will provide additional information about the status of that element. Other features include configurable warning and panic levels, notification via pager or e-mail, support for groupings of machines, support for modem monitoring, selectable paging delays, and heterogeneous network support. Version 1.4h parallelized network tests, changed dial-up hosts' local test to clear instead of purple when the log expires, fixed several bugs, and made many other improvements. Version 1.5 added availability reporting and made the program WAP-enabled. Version 1.7 contains a prettier interface and major enhancements to the notification subsystem, including the ability to view acknowledged events.
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