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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NIC Configurator 2018 allows you to monitor network adapter connection status and automate the configuration of network adapter advanced settings on thousands of network adapters across groups of computers using NIC policy. You can create a policy for properties such as speed and duplex, flow control, jumbo packet, and many others.
NIC Configurator monitors these properties and can automatically modify the
settings to 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 2018 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 2018 Compliance Monitor screen.
NIC Configurator uses NIC policy to standardize network adapter advanced
properties across hundreds or thousands of active directory computers.
Software
Fixes & Updates
DATE
FIX / UPDATE
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 the following 14 network adapter states 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.
