In September 2023, Pulseway started a major project to migrate all customers hosted in our current North American data center to a more resilient and robust data center. As part of the move, we enhanced our security position by removing support for TLS 1.0 and 1.1.
The main impact of this is that machines running Windows XP and Windows server 2003 will no longer appear online in Pulseway.
For customers who still wish to monitor Windows XP and Windows server 2003 machines, here is a workaround using a Proxy server.
This solution requires a Windows server 2016 or higher to use to setup a Proxy server. XP and Server 2003 machines can connect to this proxy server using TLS 1.0 and 1.1 and it will forward the requests to our servers using TLS 1.2.
Setting up Proxy Server
1. Install Free Proxy Suite on Windows 2016 or Higher Download Free Proxy Internet Suite from the below link.
https://www.softpedia.com/dyn-postdownload.php/cfa689069739da91da086c29bb0cdedb/64ef96dc/2efe/4/2
2. After Downloading the application, double click on the setup.exe and you will see the following welcome screen.
3. Next you will have to accept the License Agreement so click "I accept the agreement" and click next and follow the On-screen Prompts.
4. Once the Free Proxy is installed you will have to start the service
- Navigate to the Services Page (Windows Search type Services) and Set the Free Proxy Service to -Automatic and Start.
5. Open Free Proxy Control Centre by clicking on the icon in your start menu
6. Configure Proxy server in this example Port 8080 with HTTP Proxy is beng used. You can use Local Binding with a network adapter, or No Binding based on your requirements.
7. Click on Permissions and Add Permissions and enter the IP Address range.
Now that the Proxy Server is ready on Windows 2016 Server or above. you can navigate to a windows XP or the Windows Server 2003 that requires to be connected using a Proxy
8. Launch the Pulseway Manager on a Windows XP or Server 2003 and add the Proxy settings
As an alternative to enabling via Pulseway manager you can also choose to run this via script (Make sure to test the script on 1 of the machines before running on all XP or 2003 machines.)
Set-ItemProperty -Path "HKLM:\Software\MMSOFT Design\PC Monitor\" -Name UseProxyServer -Value "1"
Set-ItemProperty -Path "HKLM:\Software\MMSOFT Design\PC Monitor\" -Name ProxyServerPort -Value "ADDPORTNUMBER"
Set-ItemProperty -Path "HKLM:\Software\MMSOFT Design\PC Monitor\" -Name ProxyServerName -Value "ADDTHE IPADDRESS"