GenWatch-TRBO 4.26.2

New Features

General

• NEW ‘Watch’ Creation – Monitor activity of interest across GenWatch Web with powerful, customizable Watches.
  • Watches can notify users in the Stream, via email, or through GenWatch’s SNMP forwarding capabilities when specified criteria are met.
  • To streamline Watch creation, one-click Create Watch actions have been integrated into data grids throughout GenWatch Web, allowing users to create a Watch from the currently selected item or applied filters.
• Dark mode is now the default theme in GenWatch Web.
• Upload custom logos that replace the default logo across the application header, login screen, and report downloads.
• Email Updates:
  • An email cooldown that is configurable. Behavior is set to send an initial immediate email and batches subsequent alerts into a single summary email sent at the end of the cooldown window.
  • Support for OAuth 2.0 authentication for Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace email accounts on GenWatch Web and GenWatch thick client Trigger module.
• Support Entra authentication for logins.
• SQL Express 2025 is Bundled with TRBO Installs.

Activity

• Added the ability to quickly create a Watch from Activity.
  • From the Activity view, create a Watch using the currently selected Packet and Resource Filters.
  • From the Packet Details view, create a Watch using the selected packet values.

Dashboard

• Introduced Dashboard Replay functionality:
  • Automatically capture PNG snapshots on a designated template every 15 minutes.
  • “View Dashboard Replay” page added where users can browse, view, and download historical snapshots using date range filters, a scrollable timestamp list, and persistent zoom controls.
• Enhanced the Snapshot functionality to allow dashboard snapshots to be taken on demand as a PNG.
• Enhanced the “Add Widget” dropdown selection to allow search and show an instant preview fly-out panel that displays a sample image, title, and description when hovering over any widget option in the selection dropdown.
• Added the ability to configure optional custom titles for any dashboard widget directly within its settings panel.
• Added the ability to quickly create a Watch by right clicking on specific activity on a grid-based widget.
• Clicking the Connected Subscribers widget opens a detail list of the subscribers in the section of the donut chart.
• Added a KPI Chart plotting radio and group counts in the Default dashboard.
• The Call Activity widget that was previously available only on the Site Drilldown page, is now available as a Dashboard widget, titled Talkgroup Call Activity. Displays call activity across all talkgroups or a custom selection of groups.

Map

• Introduced Points of Interest (POI):
  • Create a point of interest anywhere on the map to identify locations that should be marked for reference or informational purposes.
  • Import/export functionality for updating/adding bulk POIs.
  • Group points of interest by icon and alias the groups.
  • Toggle off and on the individual layers to focus relevant layers.
  • Added click-to-zoom functionality to navigate directly to a selected POI within a group.

SAM

• Added the ability to quickly create a Watch from one or more alarms or events of interest.

Security

• System administrators now have access to unlock users in an active login cooldown period from invalid attempts.
• Added a forced password reset workflow that requires new local users, or users whose passwords were reset by an administrator, to update their password upon their next login.

SNMP

• Proactively log SNMP gaps that we identify during processing in the Event Viewer.

Stream

• Added a dedicated “Watches” tab within the Stream module to view and manage existing watches.

System Map

• Added the ability to quickly start a Watch based on RSSI values from the main grid.
• Added the ability to quickly create a Watch from one or more alarms or events of interest from the peer alarms view.

 

Improvements/Fixes

General

• Improved handling of user sessions to prevent unexpected logouts.
• Added the GenWatch version to the Login screen for GenWatch Anywhere users.
• Added a Login page gate that displays if the GenWatch Anywhere version does not match the On-Prem GenWatch version. Also logs to health monitoring.
• Updated the notification and emergency badges to cap the display at “99+” when unread alert counts exceed 99.
• Add “Alias” values where previously only “ID” was present.
• Resolved a memory-growth issue in GenWatch Anywhere that degraded performance over time.
• Side-by-side selectors now display loading indicators.

Activity

• Activity now displays timestamps in the browser’s local format.
• Improved reconnect logic.

Alias

• Subscribers without an agency are now automatically assigned to Root instead of requiring manual assignment.
• Agency import no longer shows an error message when a range hasn’t changed.

Dashboard

• Fixed blinking labels on the Connected Subscribers widget.
• Group Monitor now works correctly on TRBO systems.
• Prevented saving invalid options on the New Subscriber widget.
• Active Diagnostics widget no longer includes unlicensed systems on TRBO.

GenWatch Thick Client

• Client installer no longer incorrectly attempts to create a synonym.
• Fixed a syntax issue that caused GenWatch to crash on domain-configured PCs.
• Fixed a service crash caused by Trigger definitions timing out.
• Improved exception logging on GenWatch’s RID tables.

Quick Search

• Quick Search results now load faster.
• Quick Search subscribers now load even when an agency is missing.
• Quick Search results no longer omit subscriber locations until the service is restarted.
• Fixed Quick Search stored procedures that could duplicate radios across different Omni systems.
• Quick Search now displays loading indicators while results are retrieved.
• Quick Search results now clear from view when a user logs out.
• Quick Search affiliation and registration timestamps now match report values.
• Reduced KPI/CPU load caused by Quick Search stored procedures.

Map

• Improved performance of dynamic markers and site widgets.
• Subscribers now move on the map without requiring a refresh.
• Prevented a race condition when zooming on an emergency.
• Corrected map licensing that incorrectly applied System Map restrictions.
• Map widgets now retain their position and can no longer move outside the map bounds.
• Fixed missing visual channel updates caused by incorrect slot state handling.
• Coverage layer now loads on initial load.
• Site Widget number chart now sizes dynamically.
• Moving a map widget no longer highlights headers and values.
• Corrected an incorrect tower icon reference.
• Map widgets do process Dimetra control channel utilization data which improves performance.
• Fixed the map losing its connection after running for an extended period.
• Corrected an inconsistent display format for location timestamps.
• Do not show the “add subsite” option in the map menus.
• Corrected color map legend for data types for TRBO.
• Corrected widgets incorrectly displaying slot use and control channel slots.
• Corrected high water mark on the widgets.
• Sites now add to the Map without requiring a fresh.

Reports

• Restored the ability to copy a cell’s value in data grids.
• Reports now log failures instead of failing silently.
• Fixed the TRBO report Site parameter incorrectly opening the Subscriber side-by-side selector.
• Users are now prevented from applying invalid report schedule settings.
• Fixed report date picker issues with end-of-month dates.
• Resource selectors now load faster.
• Moving a report column no longer prevents downloading.

Security

• Security Activity now logs messages when users log in.
• Permissions can now be edited after an email address has been added.
• Users with Map-only permissions no longer see more than intended.
• AppSettings.json credentials are now obfuscated/hashed.

SNMP

• SNMP gap logging no longer reports 0 missing while still logging a gap.