Internet Server Monitor 2008 - Server Monitoring Tool
Internet, Server, Application and Network Monitoring
Internet Server Monitor is a network server monitoring tool that enables system
administrators to monitor servers and the network applications they host
for failures, recoveries, and load. Minimize downtime by configuring the
software to notify the on call system administrator when a server application fails
or system performance degrades.
When a failure, recovery, or degraded performance is detected, Internet Server Monitor can alert
you remotely by email, pager or SMS, as well as on your desktop via system
tray icon status and popup, sound, or message box. Failures, recoveries, and load
can optionally be logged to any Windows Event Log or your syslog server.
Lastly, a process can be started.
Internet Server Monitor not only checks the availability of server applications
but in most cases includes functionality to test the application performance.
For example, an HTTP or Web monitor can be created to test the availability of the server
and verify the returned URL or document contains the desired content.
Windows Server Monitoring
New in version 2008 is the ability to monitor Windows Services, CPU load, and memory utilization.
Using WMI Internet Server Monitor polls the status of Windows Services running on remote computers.
Depending on the service state, the monitor can optionally start or stop the service.
CPU load and memory utilization are polled over time and alerts fired based on averages.
Monitoring Functions
| HTTP (Web) | Checks HTTP and HTTPS servers/sites by connecting and optionally checking the URL content. Supports authentication and regular expressions. |
| SMTP (Outgoing Mail) | Checks SMTP mail servers by connecting and optionally sending an email. Supports SSL. |
| POP3 (Incoming Mail) | Checks POP3 mail servers by connecting and optionally authenticating. Supports SSL. |
| IMAP | Checks IMAP mail servers by connecting and optionally authenticating. Supports SSL. |
| FTP (File Transfer) | Checks FTP servers/sites by connecting and optionally authenticating. |
| ICMP (Ping) | Checks a remote host for availability by echoing data within a user defined timeout period. |
| TCP Ports | Checks if a port is responding and optionally checks its response against a text pattern. |
| DNS | Checks DNS servers by connecting and validating the IP address returned for a given address. |
Microsoft SQL Server
MySQL
ODBC Data Sources | Checks the availability of a database by connecting and optimally running a SQL command. |
| Windows Services | Checks the status of Windows Services and optionally starts or stops the service depending on the state. |
| CPU Load | Checks the CPU load over a period of time. |
| Memory Utilization | Checks the memory utilization over a period of time. |
| NTP (Time Server) | Checks time servers by connecting, retrieving the current time, and optionally setting the time on the local server. |
| NNTP (News Server) | Checks news servers by connecting and optionally opening a news group. |
Alert Notifications
When Internet Server Monitor detects a failure, recovery, or degraded performance, any one
or combination of the following alert notifications can be fired:
| Email | Sends an email message. |
| Pager (SMS) | Sends a text messages using Clickatell’s web email-to-SMS online gateway service or any third party email-to-SMS gateway. |
| Message Box | Displays a custom message box that stores alert history so your desktop does not fill with hundreds of messages. |
| Sound | Plays a sound. |
| Tray Icon | Updates the tray icon with the current global status. |
| Tray Icon Popup | Displays a balloon window above the tray icon that contains the failure or recovery. |
| Event Log Entry | Writes the failure or recovery to any Windows Event Log. |
| Syslog Message | Forwards the failure or recovery to your syslog server. |
| Start Process | Runs a program on the local server. |
All alert notifications can be customized using variables.
Other Features
- Includes reports that detail the availability of your servers and history of each monitor.
- Logically group monitors for easy management and report organization.
- Configure periods to automatically stop monitoring.
- System tray icon status enables system administrators to quickly see the status of all monitors regardless of the assigned alert methods.
- Logs all monitor results to a text file and, optionally, to your syslog server.
Enterprise Architecture
Internet Server Monitor is built using a Windows Service, management interface application, and tray icon application for user interface alerts.
Internet Server Monitor uses .Net thread pools enabling multiple monitors to run both asynchronously and simultaneously enabling the software to scale to hundreds of monitors per minute.
No installation requirements on remotely managed computers.
Priced Competitively
Network monitoring products are typically very expensive, however;
monitoring 50 network resources only costs $149.95 (USD) and monitoring an unlimited number of network resources only costs $199.95 (USD).
Click here for detailed licensing and pricing information.
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System Requirements
Supported Operating Systems
Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Server 2003, or Windows 2000.
Memory
512 MBs of available memory, 2 GBs suggested for large networks.
.Net Framework 2.0
The installation detects if .Net Framework 2.0 is already
installed. If not, the framework is automatically downloaded from Microsoft and
then installed.
Local administrator account
To install this software, you must have local administrator priveledges.
When scheduling the service to monitor network resources,
the service must be run with local administrator rights. The first time
the application is run, you will be prompted to assign administrator
rights to the service.
Our Customers
Corner Bowl Software has sold software to many small and large companies, not for profit organizations, educational institutions, and governmental agencies throughout the world.
Here are just a few: Microsoft, NASA, Network General, Northrop Grumman, and many more.
Click here to see a few more.