68 test methods!
HostMonitor can check any TCP service, ping a host, check a route, monitor Web,
FTP, Mail, DNS servers. It can check the available disk space, monitor size of a
file or folder, check integrity of your files and web site; it tests your SQL servers,
monitors network traffic and much, much more.
But what is of no less importance is how you can manage monitoring tasks ("test
items" in our terminology). Test items can be organized into different groups (folders),
each folder has its own settings such as color palette, list of reports, different
statistic information, etc.
Tests can be performed on regular intervals (e.g. every 5 min) or on schedule (e.g.
every Friday between 6pm and 9pm); tests can be performed directly by HostMonitor
or they can be performed by Remote Monitoring Agents installed on remote network.
Some tests may depend on another, e.g. you may easily configure HostMonitor to check
10 web servers when your primary router is up, and check another (backup) server
when your primary router is down.
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30 Alert Methods
HostMonitor is a network administration software, it provides different ways to
respond on failed services. Audio and visual notifications alert people near the
machine. E-mail and pager notifications inform a wider range of remote operators.
HostMonitor can take actions that are designed to recover from a failure automatically
without human intervention (e.g. "restart service", "reboot computer" or "dial-up
to the network" actions).
Highly flexible Action Profiles allow you to start actions in predefined order depending
on the test results:
- E.g. you may start some action only when both primary and backup mail servers do
not respond.
- Or an action profile can be set up to page both the IT manager and the network administrator
during regular office hours, and to page the administrator alone the rest of the
time, while doing nothing else but writing to the log on weekends.
- Another example: when some critical service fails HostMonitor may reboot the server.
If that does not help, HostMonitor will send e-mail to the on-call technician. If,
however, the server remains silent during the next three probes, the network administrator
is to be paged until the server is brought back up.
Install HostMonitor and you will see how easy it is to implement all of the above
with even more sophisticated behavior patterns. And yes, various macro variables
allow you to use the same action profile for hundreds or thousands of monitoring
tasks (test items). E.g. If you monitor 10 different services on each of 100 servers,
you may use single action to restart any failed service on any of these systems.
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Powerful Report Manager and Log Analyzer
HostMonitor can generate test result log files and reports. HostMonitor creates
various log files using different detail levels and file formats (Text, HTML, DBF
and ODBC) and can be configured to suit your needs.
The highly flexible built-in Report Manager allows you to create and customize reports
to your liking in a variety of ways. For example, a report designed for the IT manager
might have an entirely different look and feel as compared to the one intended for
use by the network administrator. Also note that separate groups of tests may contain
its own list of reports, and each of the reports may be set up with a launching
schedule specific to that group.
Also Advanced Host Monitor package includes a Log Analyzer which can illustrate
separate information for each tested host. The Log Analyzer can collect statistical
information and show graphs of all response times for specific time periods for
all or individual servers. Using the statistical information, an administrator can
analyze request times for specific servers over a period of time.
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Remote Monitoring Agents for Windows, FreeBSD, Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD and Solaris
HostMonitor can check remote hosts directly or using Remote Monitoring Agents (RMA)
installed in another network. RMA is small application that accepts requests from
HostMonitor, performs test and provides information about test result back to HostMonitor.
RMA increases security of the network, decreases network traffic, simplifies network
administration, and allows to monitor systems that are impossible to monitor directly
from HostMonitor (e.g. using RMA HostMonitor can check a number of running processes
on Linux system).
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Web service, Telnet service, Remote Control Console
Web Service works like an HTTP server and provides web interface
for HostMonitor. Telnet Service works like Telnet server and allows
you to control HostMonitor remotely using any telnet client. These applications
allow you to check brief or detailed status of any test, start or stop monitoring
process, enable or disable alerts, change global macro variables, etc. Also you
will be able to disable and enable tests, reset statistics, force tests to execution
and even change some parameters of the tests.
RCC you to work with HostMonitor which is running on a remote system
just like you work with HostMonitor when it is started on your local system. Several
operators may start RCC on different systems and work with the same instance of
HostMonitor at the same time.
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Utilities and auxiliary applications
In addition to HostMonitor (the core of a whole package) an Advanced Host Monitor
package has the following auxiliary components:
- Log Analyser
- Replicator
- HTML Manager
- RMA
- RMA for UNIX
- RMA Manager
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- RCC
- Web Servicesx
- Telnet Service
- WMI Explorer
- MIB Browser
- WatchDog
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Probably you will say "There are dozens of programs like this"?
That is right! But please check what HostMonitor offers and compare its power and
flexibility to surprisingly low price:.
