NIC Configurator 2018 monitors and detects each of 14 network adapter connection states and alerts you via email or text message when the connection state is not listed as "Connected" so that you can remediate the network adapter.
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Similar to Group Policy in Windows, NIC Configurator allows you to set network adapter advanced settings across your Windows infrastructure based on optimization properties built into every computer network adapter such as Speed and Duplex, TCP Offloads, Jumbo Packet, and others.
The NIC Configurator client monitors network adapter connection status and these advanced properties to automatically ensure they always match your NIC policies, even if your network adapter selections spread across multiple computers and NIC brands.
When a network adapter setting does not match its NIC policy setting, and auto-configure is enabled, NIC Configurator will detect this non-compliant status and modify the network adapter properties to match the settings in your NIC policy. A notification is also sent via text and e-mail which shows the non-compliant computer, network adapter, and NIC properties.
This is also displayed on the NIC Configurator Compliance Monitor screen.
NIC Configurator uses NIC policy to standardize network adapter advanced properties across hundreds or thousands of active directory computers.
Software Updates and Fixes
DATE
UPDATE / FIX
10-21-2021
When auto-configure is enabled on a network adapter and any of the following properties are configured in the network adapter's NIC policy, NIC Configurator 2018 will ensure that TCP Chimney Offload State is configured correctly (either Disabled or Enabled) in the Windows operating system where the network adapter(s) resides.
If ANY of the following properties are enabled in the NIC poicy, TCP Chimney Offload is set to Enabled.
If ALL of the following properties are disabled in the NIC policy, TCP Chimney Offload is set to Disabled.
ARP Offload
NS Offload
IPv4 Checksum Offload
Large Send Offload v2 (IPv4)
Large Send Offload v2 (IPv6)
TCP Checksum Offload (IPv4)
TCP Checksum Offload (IPv6)
UDP Checksum Offload (IPv4)
UDP Checksum Offload (IPv6)
10-06-2021
Added support for the VMWare VMXNET3 Ethernet Adapter used in virtual machines.
09-04-2021
The below Windows network administration functions have been added in Compliance Monitor as menu options. These options appear after right-clicking a selection of rows in the Compliant or Non-Compliant sections. Clicking a menu option will perform that task on each computer in the selection and display the results on the screen for your analysis.
Disable TCP Chimney Offload
Enable TCP Chimney Offload
Display TCP Connections
Display All Connections
Display Route Table
Display IP Config
Display IP Config /ALL
Display Contents of the DNS Cache
Release IP Config from DHCP Enabled Network Adapters
Renew IP Config on DHCP Enabled Network dapters
Flush DNS Cache From Selected Computers
Register This Host with its DNS Server
Force Group Policy Updates
08-26-2021
In some cases, in the Non-Compliant section of Compliance Monitor, an empty row would appear at the top of the list and this empty row would be counted towards the number of network adapters that are Non-Compliant with their NIC policy.
As of this update, this behavior has been resolved.
06-11-2021
NIC Configurator 2018 now includes the following Power Management options, which are available to be added to a NIC policy.
Option 1: Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power
Option 2: Allow this device to wake the computer
Option 3: Only allow a magic packet to wake the computer
All options ccan be saved to a NIC policy as Enabled or Disabled.
06-06-2021
Updated NIC Configurator 2018 documentation to include instructions on how to remove the software and automatically remove NIC Configurator 2018 clients installed on remote computers.
03-07-2021
Fixed source code in Compliance Monitor that did not show all NICs on a computer as being down even though Compliance Monitor displays the computer as unreachable.
As of this update, when a computer is identified as being unreachable, all network adapters on that computer will read as being "DOWN!!!" in Compliance Monitor.
02-28-2021
On the Client Removal dialog box, when querying for computers by entering a domain name, if the domain entered was unable to be found, a "Could not find the Active Directory domain object. Please try again." message would appear, however after clicking the OK button to clear this message, another (unplanned) error would occur which exits the main dialog program, not allowing retry. This has been corrected.
As of this update, after the "Could not find the Active Directory domain object. Please try again." message appears, the program will return back to the main dialog box allowing you to try again.
If a domain name is entered to find computers to remove the NIC Configurator 2018 client, the name must be in the Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) format.
(example: vegas.myteksupport.com, or myteksupport.com).
02-18-2021
In Compliance Monitor, the "Message / Non-Compliant Property" column now shows the non-compliant network adapter advanced property(ies) by name, which makes it easier to remediate these property settings values back to your NIC policy preferences.
However, if Auto-Configure is enabled, NIC Configurator 2018 will automatically remediate the settings to match the settings in the network adapter's NIC policy.
02-17-2021
In Compliance Monitor, if a computer or network adapter is listed as Down, the text and background color in that particular row will now be highlighted in a different color to accentuate the importance of remediating the network adapter status back to Connected.
The default Sort of rows in Compliance Monitor has now been set to Ascending on the Computer Name column. Previously, the default sort was Descending on the NIC Policy column.
02-06-2021
Made some cosmetic changes on the small monitor for Compliance Monitor. Added a border around the monitor portion when viewing in Full Screen mode to place the focus on client network adapter data results.
01-14-2021
Made some cosmetic changes on the Import NIC Policy dialog and on the Save NIC Policy dialog to remove double ampersigns in the display text.
Also in the Import NIC Policy dialog, we allowed more Flow Control property values to be imported from the NIC policy store file. Previously, only the Enable and Disable flow control settings were allowed to be imported, which was a mistake in that version because customers were allowed to select more Flow Control values for NIC Configurator 2018 to automatically monitor and modify. The new values added for allowable import into a NIC policy for Flow Control are as follows:
Rx & Tx Enabled, RxEnabled, TxEnabled
06-06-2020
On the NIC Configurator 2018 opening dialog box, when clicking the Clients > Install menu items and then typing a name in the Computer Group edit box, no results would be returned after clicking the Find button, even though the computer group existed in Active Directory and there were computer objects listed as members of the group.
This only occurred when the computer group in Active Directory was located outside of the Users container.
This has been fixed. As of this update, NIC Configurator 2018 will find members of computer groups that are located inside or outside the Users container.
01-11-2020
Added support for the Microsoft NIC teaming adapter (Microsoft Network Adapter Multiplexor Driver).
Added auto-configure (modification) support for the Microsoft teaming adapter via NIC policy.
NIC Configurator 2018 can automatically ensure this network adapter matches the advanced settings in its NIC policy.
01-11-2020
Added auto-configure (modification) support for the Microsoft Hyper-V Virtual Ethernet Adapter on Hyper-V servers via NIC policy.
NIC Configurator 2018 can automatically ensure this network adapter matches the advanced settings in its NIC policy.
01-09-2020
Added support for the Microsoft Hyper-V Virtual Ethernet Adapter on Hyper-V servers.
12-22-2019
Added "Buy Now" button to the opening dialog, which brings you to the PayPal Checkout shopping cart screen, when clicked, to purchase NIC Configurator 2018 + 100 Client Access Licenses.
12-22-2019
Added "View Updates" button to the opening dialog, which brings you to this page when clicked.
12-16-2019
Fixed issue with "Test Send" button generating an error when testing e-mail and text message notifications. Errors were occurring even when users were configuring e-mail and text message settings correctly.
12-16-2019
The Notification button in Compliance Monitor now gives users the ability to disable e-mail and text notifications after this feature has been enabled.
12-12-2019
Added code to the NIC Configurator 2018 client that detects when a network adapter being monitored is in the "Other Unspecified State". This was previously intentionally not noted.
NIC Configurator 2018 monitors and detects network adapter changes and displays any state other than "Connected" in the Compliance Monitor's "NON-COMPLIANT" section which can be configured to generate an automated e-mail or text message to your phone. The below network adapter changes are captured and displayed on Compliance Monitor's screen.
Software code was digitally signed on: Saturday, October 23, 2021 1:50:43 PM
Create NIC Policy for
These Network Adapter Performance Properties:
Power Management
ARP Offload
Auto Disable Gigabit
Energy Efficient Ethernet
Green Ethernet
NS Offload
Interrupt Moderation Speed and Duplex
IPv4 Checksum Offload
Large Send Offload v2 (IPv4)
Large Send Offload v2 (IPv6)
Network Address
Priority VLAN
Receive Buffers
Receive Side Scaling Jumbo Packet
Shutdown Wake-On-Lan
TCP Checksum Offload (IPv4)
TCP Checksum Offload (IPv6)
Transmit Buffers
UDP Checksum Offload (IPv4)
UDP Checksum Offload (IPv6) Flow Control
Wake on Magic Packet
Wake on pattern match
WOL & Shutdown Link Speed
Work Smarter
NIC Configurator 2018 monitors the below network adapter connection states and alerts you when your adapters move away from the "Connected" state.
Disconnected
Connecting
Connected
Disconnecting
Hardware Not Present
Hardware Disabled
Hardware Malfunction
Media Disconnected
Authenticating
Authentication Succeeded
Authentication Failed
Invalid Address
Credentials Required
Other Unspecified Status
