Synthetic Monitoring Hives

New Features

• Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) scouts: Custom & Cloud Improved compatibility and reliability by connecting using the new Windows App Client.

Bug Fixes

• Custom & Cloud Improved the authentication process to ensure reliability and shorter connection times.

• Citrix scouts on custom hives: Test results are now reliably reported and published accurately.

• Traceroute scouts: Custom & Cloud Fixed an issue that may have caused times reported to be incorrect.

• EUC scouts: Custom & CloudFixed an issue that may have caused authentication failures for environments using DUO as the identity provider with a voice call MFA.

Bug Fixes

• Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) scouts: Custom & Cloud Fixed an issue where incorrect failure messages displayed because of a connection loss.

• Web Transaction and Site Load scouts: Custom & Cloud Fixed an issue where sites with numerous redirects would sometimes falsely trigger an error that said: ‘The site's resources and sub-resources have not finished loading'.

• EUC scouts: Custom & Cloud The parameter that enables multiple login attempts when connecting to an EUC is now applied correctly.

• Hive service: Improved the application event log to receive only relevant events from the Windows Event Viewer.

• Shell execution: Fixed an issue that could sometimes cause command-line arguments to be parsed incorrectly. This would possibly occur if more than one parameter was defined for the argument.

New Features

• The local time of the custom hive has been added to the information presented for a Synthetic Monitoring event in the Events page in the DEX platform. Now all Synthetic Monitoring events include both the UTC and the local time of the hive.

• Omissa scouts (formerly VMware): Added support for testing resources on an Omnissa Horizon Client for Windows.

Bug Fix

• Citrix scouts: Custom & Cloud Fixed an issue where sessions launched requiring GPO confirmation on Citrix Workspace App for Windows would fail to reach the ready state.

New Features

• Omissa scouts (formerly VMware): Custom & Cloud Added support for environments that require both DUO and Horizon authentication.

• EUC Scouts: Custom & Cloud Added DUO voice call for multi-factor authentication (MFA) support.

Bug Fixes

• Citrix scouts: Custom & Cloud Fixed authentication failures in Entra ID-based environments caused by double gateway loading.

• Omissa scouts (formerly VMware): Custom & Cloud Fixed random authentication failures caused by an HTML element being obscured during the login process.

• Custom Hive: Improved the stability of the Scoutbees Hive service to prevent it from stopping unexpectedly.

• Web transaction scouts: Custom & Cloud Fixed an issue that caused random failures when using the Switch-tab step during a transaction.

New Features

• Omissa scouts (formerly VMware): Custom & Cloud Added support for environments that require both DUO and Horizon authentication.

• EUC Scouts: Custom & Cloud Added DUO voice call for multi-factor authentication (MFA) support.

Bug Fixes

• Citrix scouts: Custom & Cloud Fixed authentication failures in Entra ID-based environments caused by double gateway loading.

• Omissa scouts (formerly VMware): Custom & Cloud Fixed random authentication failures caused by an HTML element being obscured during the login process.

• Custom Hive: Improved the stability of the Scoutbees Hive service to prevent it from stopping unexpectedly.

• Web transaction scouts: Custom & Cloud Fixed an issue that caused random failures when using the Switch-tab step during a transaction.

New Features

• Omissa Workspace One scouts: Custom & Cloud Added custom authentication support that validates and applies an additional user name when it is required by the identity provider authentication.

Bug Fixes

• Citrix scouts:

  • Custom & Cloud Enhanced desktop session authentication to reduce session login failures.

  • Fixed false ready-state failures for sessions monitored by Citrix Workspace App for Windows.

• Traceroute scouts: Custom & Cloud Fixed max and average packet loss calculations to ensure accurate packet loss reporting.

Bug Fixes

• Siteload scouts: Custom & Cloud

  • Fixed an issue causing certificate transparency errors (ERR_Certificate_Transparency_Required) that prevented some websites from loading.

New Features

• Citrix scouts: Custom & Cloud Added logoff monitoring for tests using the Citrix Workspace app for Windows client.

Bug Fixes

• AVD scouts: Custom & Cloud

  • Improved GPO handling for desktop sessions

  • Refined calculations for connection and ready-state duration metrics

Bug Fixes

• VMware Workspace One: Custom & Cloud Fixed a bug that caused authentication failures when logging in with Entra ID.

• Citrix: Custom & Cloud Fixed incorrect calculations of session timing metrics.

• Citrix: Custom & Cloud Fixed authentication failures caused by a customized Entra ID login flow.

New Features

• EUC Scouts: Custom & Cloud Added support for Ping Identity as an Identity Provider (IdP), allowing users to log into EUC scouts using Ping Identity for authentication.

• Citrix: Custom & CloudAdded a new setting in scout creation, that allows you to indicate if a GPO (welcome screen) is configured for your monitored environment, enhancing visibility into each scout’s setup.

Bug Fixes

• VMware: Custom & Cloud Fixed an issue where the server name wasn’t displayed in test results.

Bug Fixes

• Citrix: Custom & Cloud Fixed an authentication failure caused by incorrect handling of an EPA step (endpoint analysis security check performed on the device).

• The SQLite was upgraded to version 3.50.2, and the encryption layer for SQLite (PySqlCipher) was upgraded to version 2.1.0. These upgrades improve performance and fix vulnerabilities as documented here.

Bug Fixes

• Citrix: Custom & Cloud Enhanced Citrix resource monitoring when running using the Citrix Workspace app for Windows:
  Better screenshots, logs, and post-readyState error handling.

• Custom Hive NTLM Proxy authentication: Custom & Cloud Fixed a connection failure in HiveService that occurred when using NTLM proxy authentication.

• Citrix Pre-authentication Privacy Policy Form: Custom & Cloud Fixed authentication failures during login that occurred when Citrix scouts encountered a Privacy Policy acceptance form.

• Custom Hive Service recovery: Improved HiveService recovery from network disruptions.

Bug Fixes

• Ping Scout error: Custom & CloudFixed an issue with Ping Scout failures due to character encoding errors on Windows systems using non-English language settings.

• EUC Scout authentication failure: Custom & Cloud Improved an issue of EUC scouts authenticated by Okta failing to authenticate.

• Citrix MFA fix: Custom & CloudFixed a bug in the scout’s MFA failing to properly populate the passcode field on Citrix login screens.

Bug Fixes

• Custom Hive - Improved setup experience. Enhanced background process management.

• Citrix: Custom & Cloud

  • Improved the authentication process.

  • Enhanced resource enumeration and connection.

• VMware Security Server: Custom & Cloud Improved the authentication process.

New Features

• VMware authentication - Added support for handling disclaimers before authentication.

• Citrix Scout failures - Improved error messages for better troubleshooting.

Bug Fixes

• Service scheduler - Fixed an issue that caused an unnecessarily high frequency of test runs.

• VMware tests - Fixed an issue with TOTP Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA).

• VMware tests - Fixed an issue that caused incorrect success reports when session logoff failed.

• Ping tests - Fixed an issue that prevented failure reports from being generated when tests were run from hives on non-English Windows operating systems.

• HTTP/s tests - Fixed an issue where pattern checks failed after a test configuration update.
  Note: To apply this fix, please delete and reconfigure any affected existing tests.

• AVD tests - Fixed an issue that prevented screenshots from being captured during tests.

New Features

• Citrix Scout - Added an option to bypass the Citrix receiver detection process by clicking the “Already installed” link.

Bug Fixes

• Citrix Scout - Enhanced handling of the ‘Welcome’ screen when using Citrix Workspace App.

New Features

• Added the ability to skip Storefront pre-authentication that previously required installation of the Citrix Plug-in and Endpoint Analysis (EPA) MSI packages.

Bug fixes

• Improved handling of SMS-based MFA during Entra ID authentication.

• Fixed an issue affecting the integration between Okta and VMware Workspace ONE.

• Fixed an issue where inconsistent VMware Broker URLs led to incorrect environment targeting by the scout.

• Fixed an issue in Citrix Workspace for Desktop Scout that caused "Failed to connect" and "Failed to get session ready" errors when the Remote Procedure Call (RPC) server was unavailable.

• Fixed a "Failed to get session ready" error in Citrix Workspace for HTML5 Receiver Scout, caused by failure to bypass the Welcome screen.

New Features

• Added support for HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) in HTTP/s scouts.

• Web Transactions scouts- added an automatic MFA step using SMS, Voice Call, TOTP or Static PIN authentication for tests requiring an additional security layer.

Bug fixes

• Fixed a “Failed to monitor session“ failure when using Citrix Workspace app.

• Fixed an issue that caused a custom hive service crash.

New Features

• Enabling EUC scout MFA on the new DUO interface

Bug fixes

• AVD Scout - handled window pop-up during resource connecting step

• Fixed an issue with VMware Workspace One, which caused a Runner error

New Features

• Support for an additional authentication flow in Citrix

• Support for combined authentication using Okta username and EntraID password

Bug fixes

• Fixed an issue in Citrix Scouts that caused failure during session connection

• Fixed Okta authentication in iFrame

• Fixed an issue in VMware Scouts that required re-authentication during resource connection.

New features

• Silent Install enables you to deploy, custom hives across multiple hosts (desktops or servers) using automation tools or proprietary scripts. These tools or scripts distribute a Custom Hive Installer (an executable file) to the hosts without requiring user interaction, saving you time and effort (see Silent Install for Synthetic Monitoring Custom Hives ).

Bug fixes

• Fixed an issue of network child scout not running for Storefront EUC scout.

Bug fixes

• Fixed an issue with executing the network test as part of the running HTTP/S and EUC scouts on custom hives.

New Features

• Support for the Mail Application Scout (seehttps://support.controlup.com/docs/mail-scout).

• Support for the Switch Tab step in the Web Transaction Scout.

Bug fixes

• Fixed a delay in getting to session-ready state in VMware and Citrix Scouts.

• Fixed an issue with the configuration of CVAD credentials in the Hive Configuration window under the Enrichment Credentials tab.

New Features

• Added support for application logoff in VMware Horizon Scout.

• Added support for Entra ID authentication in VMware Horizon Scout.

• VMware Horizon Scout can handle more session warning dialogs.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue with the desktop session logoff in VMware Horizon Scout, that caused session disconnect instead of logoff.

• Fixed an issue with the HTTP/S Scout that failed to perform on custom hives.

New Features

• The VMware Workspace One Scout can now handle more session alerts and notifications that might appear when signing into a session.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue causing EUC, Web Transactions, and Site Load Scouts to show black/cropped screenshots when viewing test results.

• Fixed an issue causing the Microsoft Teams Scouts to fail when running from Custom Hives.

Fixes

• Improved the encoding handshake for the HTTP Scout. An encoding issue sometimes caused Scouts to report failures when the resource was available.

• Improved detection of authentication failures for Citrix Scouts. Authentication failures were sometimes incorrectly reported as resource enumeration failures.

New Features

• VMware Workspace One Scouts now support gateways that use Microsoft Entra ID for authentication.

Fixes

• The reported total duration for Citrix Scouts was sometimes incorrect when using a TOTP code for MFA.

• The Site Load Scout was sometimes incorrectly identifying text when using the Look for a string in the response setting.

• EUC Scouts that use Entra ID for authentication can now handle additional dialogs for browser selection during the login process.

• Improved logoff methods for AVD Scouts to prevent failed logoffs.

New Features

• Support Client Encryption Mode for the Horizon Unified Access Gateway EUC scout.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue with the Site Load and Web Transaction scouts that reported false failures when attempting to load the first page of the websites they were monitoring.

• VMware and Microsoft Entra ID (previously known as Azure AD) scouts no longer fail if the test was interrupted and disconnected before it completed.

New Features

• Updated third-party components in the Custom Hive for generally improved performance and stability.

Fixes

• Site Load Scouts were falsely reporting a timeout error

• Improved support for Citrix Scouts using NetScaler OTP.

• Citrix Cloud Scouts can now test gateways that require the user to accept a EULA before signing in.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue when using two-staged authentication with different sets of credentials for Citrix-based EUC Scouts.

• Fixed an issue with distorted screenshots in EUC scouts.

• Fixed a bug in the screenshot timing when using Citrix workspace application.

• Fixed an issue with enumerating published resources for Citrix Storefront scout.

• Fixed an issue that caused HTTP/S scout malfunction on Custom Hives.

Fixes

• The Web Transaction Scout now focuses on the correct element before taking a screenshot.

• Fixed an issue with resolving nameservers on Cloud Hives for DNS Lookup Scouts.

• Fixed an issue identifying credential fields for Citrix EUC Scouts.

• Fixed an issue with Custom Hive registration keys.

• Fixed an issue with page load redirects and timeout.

New Features

• Citrix Scouts can now test gateways that require two-staged authentication with different sets of credentials. You can add the second set of credentials in the Scout’s additional parameters.

Fixes

• Fixed an AVD Scout issue that caused wrong identification of session ready and session logging off.

• Improved screenshot capturing for all relevant Scouts.

• Fixes a resource enumeration issue for Citrix Scouts using Azure AD authentication.

• Fixed an issue that caused connection failures when using a proxy.

Fixes

• A change in the server authentication interface caused Citrix Storefront Scouts to stop working.

• Using static PIN MFA for EUC Scouts was not working correctly.

• The DNS Lookup Scout was using the default DNS server of the Hive instead of the server specified in the optional parameter DNS Server.

Fixes

• Applied updates to third-party components in the Custom Hive. Upgrade your Hives for improved general performance and reliability.

New Features

• Support for Web Transactions Scout GA - We've made many improvements to the Web Transsactions Scout during the beta period. Upgrade your Hives to to use the latest features!

Fixes

• Fixed an issue causing Citrix EUC Scouts to fail to login.