MonitorIT^® Feature Summary
 

Feature Summary

• Various dynamic status displays (See Screenshots at MonitorIT Screenshots)
   

• Total secure Agent and Console communications, using an encrypted and compressed message protocol over TCP connections, with the central MonitorIT Server for all Agent and Console communications
   

• Proactive Windows CounterWatch^tm monitors Windows Performance Counters on servers & workstations

  • Centralize the monitoring data, analysis, graphing and  reporting for performance, troubleshooting, base lining and trending, of all your Windows servers & workstations; 

  • Watch critical counters on Disk Space, Processor Utilization, Network use, and numerous other hardware/software counters and be alerted when threshold/time specifications are exceeded;

  • Reports include Graphs for each monitored Windows Counter.
     

• Monitor available disk space on all drives, as well as virtual page file / swap file space

  • Optionally be alerted when available space drops below user defined thresholds
     

• Track server availability, server reboots, and server uptime

  • Optionally be alerted when server reboots are detected or when server down is detected
     

• Tracks Hardware Configuration Details of your Windows servers & workstations, using WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation), for Display and/or Printing;

  • Optionally be alerted when Hardware Configuration changes
     

• EventLogWatch^tm monitors  Event Logs on Windows servers & workstations; 

  • Be alerted when critical Events occur; Centralize your Event Log management and reporting.

  • Flexible Report Query parameters to report on any set of captured events.

  • Integrated with Active Directory; Use Active Directory Groups to filter on Events being monitored
     

• Automatic Upload and Archive Event Log EVT files in their native format to one or more central stores, based on a flexible set of conditions and schedules.

  • Robust and efficient process to guarantee safe uploading;

  • Integrated Viewer for interactive archive searching and analysis with very flexible filters

  • Option to Print, Email, or Export to a CSV file found events based on the filters

  • Save and Reload Filters
     

• CustomWatch^tm  enhances and extends MonitorIT with user provided custom monitors;

  • Executes any user provided Windows program, command, script, or batch file executable on servers & workstations; 

  • Define a periodic schedule for the executable;

  • Be alerted when the executable Exit Code fails a comparison to your specified exit code;
     

• ProcessWatch^tm  monitors Windows Processes on servers & workstations;

  • Be alerted when critical processes stop; automatically attempt to restart the process;

  • Be alerted when rogue processes are found running, and automatically terminate the rogue processes;

  • Set CPU & Memory utilization thresholds and be alerted when the watched process exceeds the specified thresholds;
     

• WinServicesWatch^tm  monitors Windows Services on servers & workstations;

  • Be alerted when critical services stop; automatically attempt service restart.
     

• FileWatch^tm  monitors any Files for any of several specified conditions on Windows servers & workstations;

  • Watch key system files are not touched, or 3rd party application logs for specific text strings; 

  • Watch for files and alert when they are deleted; 

  • Watch for critical files such as virus definitions that should be changed regularly and alert if they are not.
     

• Monitor select Registry Keys/Values of your Windows servers & workstations;

  • Optionally be alerted when monitored Registry Keys/Values are added, deleted, or changed
     

• ServerWatch^tm proactively monitors Web, Email, FTP, DNS, TELNET, ORACLE, SQL, NOTES & other servers and network devices such as routers, switches, and firewalls, for availability, correct operation, and response performance.
   

• Complete proactive SNMP CounterWatch monitoring, including graphing, alerting, and reporting of any SNMP enabled device;

  • Parse MIBs to provide Counters that can be selected for monitoring

  • Centralize the monitoring data, analysis, graphing and  reporting for performance, troubleshooting, base lining and trending, of all your Network devices

  • Optionally use designated deployed MonitorIT Agents for remote, distributed SNMP Query/Poll monitoring to collect SNMP Counter data and forward to the central MonitorIT Server

  • Be alerted when threshold/time specifications are exceeded

  • Reports include Graphs for each monitored SNMP Counter

  • Monitor network and security devices such as routers, switches, and firewalls, including performance such as bytes and packets transferred, packet errors and discards, and bandwidth utilization.
     

• SNMPTrapWatch^tm monitors SNMP enabled servers & network devices for SNMP Traps; 

  • Parse MIBs for SNMP Trap information.

  • Monitor for critical Trap events from routers, switches, firewalls, UPSs, printers and other devices

  • Optionally use designated deployed MonitorIT Agents for remote, distributed SNMP Trap monitoring to receive SNMP Trap data and forward to the central MonitorIT Server for logging and any alert notification processing
     

• SYSLOGWatch^tm monitors SYSLOG messages received by the MonitorIT Server on the standard SYSLOG UDP port;

  • Be alerted when critical SYSLOG messages are received; Centralize your SYSLOG collection,  management and reporting

  • Optionally use designated deployed MonitorIT Agents for remote, distributed SYSLOG monitoring to receive SYSLOG messages and forward to the central MonitorIT Server for logging and any alert notification processing; optionally Archive collected SYSLOG messages to storage available to the Agent/Collector
     

• Email, Pager, Beeper, SNMP Trap, and SYSLOG options for Alert Notifications on any monitored Failures & optional Action such as Restart Service, Reboot Server, Execute a Program, Command, or Batch File, including available utilities such as 'Net Send" as alternative alerting methods.
   

• Customize Email Text and Email Group Address options.
   

• Comprehensive Reporting & Analysis based on all time-stamped monitoring results captured centrally in the included Microsoft Access, or optional SQL Server, database.
   

• Schedule MonitorIT Reports for automatic, periodic report generation with optional Email of the Report output, or a link to the output, to one or more recipients;

  • Complete flexibility on what is reported, for what time-frame and for what servers/devices, and when the periodic reports run.
     

• Exclude Time Period feature to exclude time-of-day and day-of-week periods from Report analysis to more accurately reflect your Service-Level Agreements.
   

• Access and SQL Server databases support third party reporting and data mining tools.
   

• Real-time, dynamic web-based consolidated 'Network Status' display, Memory & Logical Drive monitoring displays, and 'ServerWatch' monitoring Status & Alert displays;

  • Historic and current Graph displays; 

  • Export Graph data to a CSV file and view in Excel.
     

• Access the MonitorIT Server locally or remotely via Internet Explorer based 'console' interface for all configuration, monitoring, status, graph, and reporting displays;

  • Console connection uses a completely secure, encrypted and compressed TCP connection for all user data communications;

  • Open multiple 'console' displays from the same and/or different locations;

  • Configurable Console Security with different levels of access based on User Name logon;

  • Security options to restrict MonitorIT User's to only viewing servers/devices in their authorized Groups;

  • Report and Graph ownership to restrict these to authorized Users
     

• Global Agent Management for simple, centralized, 'One-button click' Agent service installation and update push across all your Domains and Workgroups

  • Option to pull Agent down and install to servers that due to security or geography are not available to have Agents pushed out and installed;

  • Automatic Agent update of any selected Agents over the existing Agent connection to the MonitorIT Server;

  • Agent connection uses a completely secure, encrypted and compressed TCP connection for all data communications;