We're very excited to announce some changes to our CheckCentral subscription plans that are rolling out today. We're doing away with the old tiered plans, and moving to a system where you only pay for the checks you need, as you need them. Getting started with CheckCentral has never been easier or more affordable!

Starting today, you'll be able to add or remove checks in groups of 10, with each group costing $5. In addition, all paying customers get access to all of our Enterprise features, including unlimited users, API access, and custom dashboards! We’re also removing the limit on the number of groups that can be configured. Our discounts for pre-paying quarterly or yearly are still available as well.

For our existing customers, you will be grandfathered in at your current subscription rate, and you can easily change the amount of checks on your account via the Subscription page.

If you have any questions or comments about these changes, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with us.

I'm an existing customer. How do I make changes to my check allotment?

After logging in to your CheckCentral organization, click the Subscription link in the top menu. At the top of the Enterprise plan column, there's a slider you can drag left or right to decrease or increase the number of checks you're paying for. The updated monthly subscription cost will be displayed immediately.

I'm a new customer. How many checks do I get during the 60-day free trial?

As many as you like! On the Subscription page, you can adjust the slider to increase or decrease the number of checks at any time during your trial.

What do I do if I'm not sure about these new plans?

Contact us with any questions that you have and we'll be glad to help out!

Save the attached file (checkReplication.ps1) to a directory on the Active Directory server you'd like to monitor. You'll need to schedule it using Task Scheduler. If you haven't changed the execution policy on that server yet, you can do so by opening PowerShell and entering the following:

Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted

In Task Scheduler, create a new basic task.

• Name can be 'Check Replication' or something similar
• Trigger can be daily (you can tweak that later if you'd like to check more frequently)
• Action is going to be 'Start a program'
• Program is powershell.exe
• Argument is -File "C:\scripts\checkReplication.ps1" (update with the actual location you saved the PowerShell script).

Ok! Next step is creating the check in CheckCentral. Add a new check and use the following settings:

• Frequency: scheduled
• Schedule Type: regular interval
• Emails are expected: every 24 hours
• Set as failed when an email is late: after 90 minutes

Copy the email address that is displayed here and update the checkReplication.ps1 script with it (it's the $msgAddress variable)

• Default Status: Failure
• Success Rule: check the Condense Whitespace box, and Body Text - Complex Match - "0 / 5"{4}

Complex matches are pretty powerful, and in this instance we're telling CheckCentral to look at the output of the command and to count how many times "0 / 5" shows up, and to only mark the check as successful if that string appears exactly 4 times. Now, this is just for two Active Directory servers. If you have more in your environment, just open up a command prompt on an Active Directory server and run repadmin.exe /replsummary and have a look at the output. When I run this, I want to make sure there are 0 / 5 errors for each of the entries listed. In this particular environment, that's 4 times, and that's where the {4} comes from above. If you have more servers, that number is going to be higher, so just enter that in instead.

Save your check, and try running your scheduled task. If all is well, an email should show up under Recent Activity, and hopefully the dot is green!

We've rolled out a site-wide update to the look and interface of CheckCentral. The updated design places more emphasis on your organization's information, as well as facilitating future development and improvements. We hope the new look will provide a cleaner, more readable experience. Please let us know if you have any feedback!

In addition, we have updated the email processing system to further improve CheckCentral's stability and reliability.

We're pleased to announce the release of on-demand PDF report generation! You can now save snapshots of your organization's status for record-keeping or distribution.

You can save a complete dashboard view from your Manage Dashboards page or directly from the dashboard itself. The Manage Checks page provides links to save a snapshot of the current state of a group or an individual check.

PDF reporting is available on paid subscriptions, and Enterprise organizations will receive PDFs with their own organization branding, suitable for distributing to customers. Look for the icon on your Dashboards and Check pages to download your PDF reports!

To help configure your CheckCentral account, we've added the ability to send yourself a test notification. On the notifications page, click the "Send Test Message" button to make sure your notification service is properly set up without having to wait for a Check to trigger an alert.

iOS Notifications

As well, we've released updates to Apple push notifications to improve the reliability of alerts on iOS.

We're excited to announce customizable dashboards for CheckCentral! With this update, you can select which elements you would like to see on your custom dashboard. You can also enable a publicly accessible dashboard view suitable for displaying your organization's status in a simple format. We are planning to extend the capabilities of custom dashboards in the future, so please let us know if you have any comments or feedback!

Please note that custom dashboards are only available on Enterprise Subscriptions. Contact CheckCentral Support with any questions.

Email Processing

As well, we have made significant improvements to our email processing system. It can queue and process incoming emails in greater numbers and with greater speed than ever before.

We've added a new option for CheckCentral subscriptions. If your organization could use more than a standard Enterprise Subscription offers, you can now purchase subscription Add-On Packs. These provide additional checks, groups, and SMS notifications on top of your existing subscription limits. Organization administrators can set up Add-On Packs on their subscription management page.

If you need something more specific than Add-On Packs can provide, please contact sales@checkcentral.cc for information about custom plans.

Email Parsing

Along with some interface adjustments and performance improvements, we made some updates to our email parsing. HTML email parsing is now more reliable, and CheckCentral can handle malformed messages more robustly.

We're excited to announce that you can now integrate CheckCentral with Slack! You can receive all your regular notifications directly in Slack, including your daily digests and check status updates.

As well, you can use slash commands to request up to date information about your organization, from a full daily digest report to the status of a specific check group.

We use Slack as part of our daily workflow, and having updates posted in Slack provides a convenient way to keep on top our notifications. Organization administrators can configure Slack for their team by visiting their notifications page to get started!

Mobile Two-Factor Security

To compliment the release of Two-Factor Security, we've also added support for Two-Factor login in CheckCentral Mobile.

We've added the option to secure your account with two-factor authentication. This helps to secure your account by preventing unauthorized access by requiring a second level of security in addition to your password. To log into your account with two-factor security you will need to enter a code sent via SMS to your mobile phone. Visit your User Account Page to enable two-factor security!

Check Updates

Checks can now be set up with more precise overdue thresholds. We've reduced the 30 minute minimum overdue time to 5 minutes, with additional options for 10 minute and 15 minute intervals.

As well, each Check now has a link at the bottom of its recent activity to view its extended activity history.

Caching and Performance

This week we also added a new caching layer to the CheckCentral backend. With the new cache layer we'll be able to process and report on all your emails with continuing efficiency and flexibility! Using a shared caching layer common to all our backend services will help ensure that your data is always available and up to date.

When displaying email messages, we always use the @mycheckcentral.cc email address as the "To" address. However, if an email is automatically forwarded to CheckCentral, its original "To" address isn't shown. We've updated this so that for new messages we will now display the original "To" address as well as the address used by CheckCentral. This will only be displayed if the addresses are different.

Matching Extra Whitespace

We've added a new option for configuring your checks. With "Condense Whitespace" set for a group of rules, CheckCentral will ignore any extra whitespace in the message when matching against the each rule. This is particularly useful for HTML formatted emails, which often have extra line breaks and tabs in the document that aren't displayed.

Other Updates

We've also made a number of performance improvements behind the scenes, particularly with regards to sending out daily digests, as well as some minor bug fixes and usability improvements