What We Do

Comprehensive, Scalable and Affordable Server & Infrastructure
 Device Monitoring with MonitorIT^®

^{For Small-Medium & Enterprise Businesses and Managed Services Providers}

MonitorIT from Breakout Software is a cost-effective, easy to use Web-based monitoring solution. MonitorIT provides a comprehensive set of monitoring, alerting, and reporting features for monitoring Windows servers and workstations, Linux/Unix servers and network devices such as switches, routers and firewall devices.  Includes total secure Agent and Console communications, using an encrypted and compressed message protocol over TCP connections, with the central MonitorIT Server.

Key MonitorIT Technical and Feature Items

• Complete & Robust Agent Based Server & Network Monitoring: Monitor IT is a complete, comprehensive and extensible real-time monitoring tool for Windows servers and workstations, Linux/Unix servers and network devices providing detailed server/workstation monitoring including Services, Processes, Performance Counters, Event Logs, Files, Registry, CPU, Disks, Memory, and other resources; and detailed network device monitoring with SNMP & Syslog.  Easy to use ‘Watch’ templates for creating monitoring rules by simply specifying the key criteria to be monitored and the alert actions to be taken.
  
• "Agentless" Server/Workstation Monitoring: Monitor thousands of servers/workstations from one or more distributed Agents via "agentless" monitoring for interactive User Logon/Logoff status.  Run a simple and complete User Logon/Logoff status report.  Frustrated with trying to determine User Logon/Logoff activity from the Event Logs?  Try MonitorIT's direct "agentless" server/workstation approach.
   
• Consolidated Dashboard Status Display and Reporting: From a single, central, monitoring server, MonitorIT scales to monitor over 1,000 local and remote servers/devices offering network managers a consolidated, dynamic status view on a single, secure dashboard display. Users can securely access MonitorIT anytime, from anywhere, using an Internet Explorer Web browser to view real-time monitoring data and dynamic dashboard displays, generate reports and perform administration tasks.
   
• Extensible Monitoring Programming Platform: With the “CustomWatch” monitoring option, MonitorIT provides a user the easy ability to extend and enhance monitoring with Windows scripting, and scheduled execution of any Windows executable including in-house developed or 3^rd party programs. One can script very detailed monitors for Exchange Server, Active Directory, SQL Server, IIS, and other Windows server based systems.  Various sample scripts are included with MonitorIT.
   
• Automated Remediation and Recovery Actions: MonitorIT provides alert action options to have a designated 'Program' run under a specified security context based on Username/Password credentials, with an optional ‘Working Start Directory’ for the 'Program', and an option to ‘Show Window’ for the 'Program’s' Window GUI; the 'Program' can be any Windows Batch, Script such as VBS & WMI, COM, and EXE.
   
• Comprehensive LOG Monitoring and Management: MonitorIT’s real-time EventLog and Syslog alert Monitoring and long term Archiving enable organizations to react quickly to issues and meet requirements for Sarbanes-Oxley issues, HIPAA and other IT compliance requirements for managing Event Logs and Syslogs.
   
• Multi-Tenant Platform: MonitorIT supports managing "multiple-tenants".  With optional security settings, view all tenants, or view a partitioned set of one or more tenants.
  • For MSPs, support multiple clients in a single, scalable central MonitorIT Server, with optional separate security settings based on client login and limited to viewing only the clients' servers,  workstations, devices and associated Watches on the various console displays.
  • For Medium-Enterprise Businesses, support multiple administrators and analysts, with option security settings based on their Windows login and limited to viewing only their responsible servers, workstations, devices and associated Watches on the various console displays.
     
• Flexible Licensing: MonitorIT offers flexible licensing.  Purchase licenses as needed and add licenses as requirements grow.
  • For MSPs, allocate and reallocate available licenses among clients as some clients are added and clients grow, and other clients shrink or drop-out;
  • For Medium-Enterprise Businesses, allocate and reallocate available licenses among departments and divisions as needs grow and change.
     

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Centralize Event Log and Syslog Monitoring & Reporting
^{For SOX and HIPAA Compliance}

MonitorIT provides both real-time Event Log and Syslog monitoring for alerting when critical Events or Syslog messages occur, and Event Log and Syslog archiving and retrieval when you are required to save these for compliance requirements.

Real-time Event Log monitoring and archiving now supports user specified Custom Event Logs as well as EVTX and EVT EventLog Archiving & Viewing support on Win2008 Server & VISTA.

Real-time monitor & alert, and automatic upload and Archive, any of the new Win2008 Server & VISTA Event Logs including all the new 'Microsoft-Windows-.../Operational' EVTX logs such as 'Microsoft-Windows-Task Scheduler/Operational'  and 'Microsoft-Windows-Server-Backup/Operational'.

Centralize the Remote Monitoring of Client Windows,
Linux & Unix Servers and Network Infrastructure Devices
^{For Managed Services Providers}

The MonitorIT Windows and Linux/Unix Agents support monitoring of remote client servers and infrastructure devices located anywhere in the world over the public internet.  The Agent communications with the central MonitorIT Server are totally secure, using an encrypted and compressed proprietary message protocol over TCP connections.

Enhance Server Security and Intrusion Detection
^{For Small-Medium & Enterprise Businesses}

Use the various monitoring features to enhance your server security and intrusion detection, as well as monitoring availability, performance, and reliable operation.

Suggested Security Event Log Event IDs to Monitor and Suggested Actions

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Monitor, Detect, Alert, Diagnose, Measure, Collect and Report 
Windows & Linux/Unix Servers and SNMP & SYSLOG Devices 

MonitorIT is designed as an intranet/internet based, comprehensive Windows, Linux/Unix, Network Infrastructure Device monitoring, alerting, diagnosing, collecting and reporting tool for managing availability and performance of servers, workstations, and network devices in IP based networks. 

MonitorIT requires a Windows operating system based computer for its central monitoring Server.  This MonitorIT Server supports Microsoft Access, which by default is installed with the included Access database engine, or optionally Microsoft SQL Server, for all its database configuration and monitoring information.  MonitorIT uses Microsoft Internet Explorer to provide easy, remote, secure console access to the MonitorIT Server’s built in HTTP server (you do not need IIS or any other web server software). 

MonitorIT provides a Windows Agent and a Linux/Unix Agent (for Linux, Solaris, AIX, SUSE, SCO/Unixware, HP-UX, and ESX) with built-in monitoring components to accomplish the various monitoring capabilities, and ties all the monitoring together with the central monitoring Server’s alerting, graphing and reporting components.  All monitoring, alerting, diagnosing, graphing, collecting and reporting information available at the MonitorIT Server can be accessed from anywhere with MonitorIT’s remote IE based console.

MonitorIT scales to monitor as many as 1,000 servers, workstations and network devices from a single central MonitorIT Server because virtually all actual monitoring is ‘delegated’ to the deployed Agent on each server.  The MonitorIT Server sends the appropriate monitoring rules for each server to the Agent which then monitors locally.  The Agent sends monitoring data back to the central MonitorIT Server only when conditions match the Watch rules.

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^{Start Monitoring Your Servers & Infrastructure Devices Today}  

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^{We Use GoToAssist from Citrix for Remote Support & Demonstrations}

Contact us to schedule an on-line, interactive demonstration of MonitorIT.  We can demonstrate MonitorIT features using our servers, while you observe from your desktop or workstation.  Or download the evaluation version, and we will demonstrate MonitorIT features and assist you in configuring MonitorIT directly on your server or workstation where you have installed MonitorIT.  See how easy MonitorIT is to set up, and start monitoring your servers and network infrastructure.

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