Igiko Management Tools 5.4

New features

Action Log

• To open it, click your user name in the top right corner and select Action Log.

• The log records both successful and failed actions, including:

  • Successful and failed sign-in attempts

  • 2FA: enabling, disabling, and entering an incorrect code at sign-in

  • Creating, editing and deleting users, groups and their permissions

  • RDP, PowerShell and File Manager connections

  • Actions on hosts and virtual machines

  • Other actions, listed in the filter drop-down

• Regular users can open the log too, but they see only their own actions. This includes sign-in attempts made with their user name.

• Old entries are removed when the service starts and every hour after that.

  • By default, entries are kept for 30 days.

  • To change this, set ActionLogRetentionDays in Igiko.exe.config to the number of days entries should be kept.

Dashboard

The Events tab is hidden if the user has no permissions on any host.

Hosts and Virtual machines

Added a button that resets the grid layout.

Virtual machines

If a virtual machine's performance charts are empty, administrators now see a link to run diagnostics on that VM, which checks for performance counter problems.

Virtual machines → Diagnostics

To open it, click Settings in the bottom menu of the Virtual machines page.

Performance counter diagnostics are more thorough. Igiko now checks that both the counter categories and the individual counters exist, and suggests how to fix any problems it finds.

Permissions → Hosts

• Added a button that resets the grid layout.

Permissions → VMs

• Added a User column that supports filtering, sorting and grouping.

• Grouping by VM is now off by default. To turn it back on, drag the VM name column to the grouping area at the top of the grid, next to the Type grouping.

• Added a Host address column. It is hidden by default. To show it, click the icon in the top right corner of the grid and select the column.

• Rows can now be expanded with the arrow on the left to show the permissions that are granted.

• In the new permission dialog, virtual machines are grouped by the host they run on.

• Added a button that resets the grid layout.

Remote console

• If no object is selected, all tabs are hidden and a message asks you to select one.

• The RDP, PowerShell and File Manager tabs each appear only if the user has the matching Remote Access permission on the selected object.

Settings → Alert rules

The Hosts and VMs tabs appear only if the user has permissions on at least one host or VM, respectively.

Settings → Users

• Invitations: an administrator can create a user and set up their permissions, and the user then sets their own password and 2FA by following an invitation link. 2FA can be made mandatory.

• Invitations also work for existing users. Sending an invitation to an existing user locks their account and resets their password and 2FA. The user then has to follow the invitation link to set them again.

• You can send the link yourself or have Igiko email it. To have Igiko email it, configure SMTP with the Edit SMTP button on the Users tab.

Main menu

The Virtual machines item is hidden if the user has no permissions on any virtual machine.

Page scrolling

Page scrolling no longer gets stuck when the mouse pointer is over:

• Dashboard widgets

• The contents of the Alarms, Events, System Log and Hyper-V Log tabs. To scroll inside these tabs, click them first.

Other changes

• SMTP settings can now be reset.

• The sign-out button has a new color so it is easier to find.

• An empty Quick menu now shows a message saying that it has no items.

Bug fixes

Dashboard

Online VM and host counts now include only the objects the current user has permissions on.

Settings → Alert rules

The bottom menu now updates correctly for a user who has no permissions on any host.

Hosts and Virtual machines

Each user now keeps their own grid settings when several users share the same browser.

Permissions

• Grid settings for host and VM permissions are now kept after a page reload.

• Edit, Pause and Delete permissions for virtual machines are now displayed correctly.

Quick menu

• The menu now opens for a user who has no permissions on any host.

• Each user now has their own menu when several users share the same browser.