MonitorIT 8.0 Highlights

MonitorIT 8.0 Highlights

• MonitorIT 8.0 is fully compatible with all earlier MonitorIT versions
   
• 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
   
• Now, you can optionally configure remote, distributed SYSLOG and SNMP Trap & Query monitoring using one or more deployed MonitorIT Agents running on a Windows machine as a service, and all transparently integrated with the central MonitorIT Server and MonitorIT's standard Watches, Displays, and Reports using MonitorIT's Internet Explorer based console.
   
• Groups enhanced:
   
  • new 'Secondary' Group concept where a server/device can belong to multiple 'Secondary' Groups; original Groups are now designated as 'Primary' Groups.
     
  • Watches and CounterWatch Reports can be assigned to the original 'Primary' Groups and the new 'Secondary' Groups; servers/devices assigned to Groups automatically pick up the Watches and CounterWatch Reports that are assigned to the Groups.
     
  • designate 'Default' Secondary Groups so that any new Agents are automatically assigned to one or more 'Default' Secondary Groups and thus automatically pick up the Watches and CounterWatch Reports.
     
• Active Directory Integration:
   
  •  In 'Configure->Security' for the MonitorIT console, you can pick from your list of Active Directory Groups or Users.  If you specify a Group, then any member of that Group is authorized.  In both Groups and Users, the authentication is done via Active Directory so you do not provide any passwords in 'Configure->Security'; the password you provide when you log on is authenticated through a call to Active Directory so the user can use the same UserName/Password as he uses for Windows.
     
  • In Event Log Watches, you can you can pick from your list of Active Directory Groups and Users for the 'User' parameter, and if you specify a Group, then any User in the Group would match on the event criteria.  This makes it easier to define an Event Log Watch rule to monitor, for example, changes to the Administrators Group.
     
  •  In the Event Log Archive Viewer as well as in the Event Log Reports->Query setup you will also be able to use the same pick list of your current Active Directory Groups and Users when defining filters for the Viewer or for the Reports making it easier to be selective on what you are filtering for reporting and viewing.
     
• Monitor Hardware Configuration for changes and optionally alert when changes are detected
   
• Monitor selected Registry Keys/Values for changes and optionally alert when changes are detected
   
• Monitor and optionally alert when server reboots/restarts are detected
   
• Significantly enhance ‘Alert Notification’ Report performance for EventLogWatch using the 'Query' and Syslog with 'Query'; in some scenarios the enhancement is as much as 50 to 1 and what previously took hours to complete now completes in minutes
   
•  Add a new 'Large Icon' option to the 'Network Status' dashboard display so that status icons are more easily viewed from a distance

See the Complete List of Changes in 8.0 in the MonitorIT Revision List

New in 7.0

• Enhanced EventLog View/Archive & Report function with a flexible, interactive Viewer for Events in Archived Event Logs, in the MonitorIT database, and/or in current Event Log files on selected servers/workstations; option to Save & Load Filters; option to Print, Email, or Export to CSV file the Event View results; option to set the "MaxFileSize" parameter for any or all Event Log files on any or all selected servers/workstations

• Archived Event Log files now saved compress in a GZIP format

• New Archive option to archive when an Event Log file exceeds a specified percentage full

• New Import features in Configure Servers/Agents & Devices and Configure Groups to import and add from a comma-delimited list

• New “Watch Templates” feature in Configure Watches/Alerts with predefined parameters for various Watch types

• New “RegistryWatch Monitoring” feature to monitor and display select Registry values for all servers/workstations

• Change maximum “Status Interval” in Network Status Display to 120 hours (5 days)

• New ‘self-monitoring’ auto-restart feature for the MonitorIT Server component; it now sends a ‘keep-alive’ signal to the MonitorIT Server service once per minute, and if not received within 15 minutes; the service terminates and restarts the MonitorIT Server component

• Enhanced Agent / Server ‘keep-alive’ exchange and Agent check for Agent connectivity; Server now echoes back an Agent ‘keep-alive’ and Agent now checks for the response; attempts reconnection on failure to receive echoes; Server insures Agent successfully logged on before accepting ‘keep-alive’

• Agent fixed to include an Event’s Description parameters even if the Event’s Message file cannot be found to resolve the description text

  New in 6.0

• New Auto upload & archive Event Log EVT files to a central store based on one or more, totally flexible Archive Schedules

• New 'CustomWatch' feature. Execute any Windows program, command, batch, or script executable, on a periodic schedule, at selected servers/workstations, and optionally alert if the Exit Code fails a comparison with a specified exit code.

• New alert notification options; send an alert notification as an SNMP Trap or as a SYSLOG message

• Enhanced Security with User logons restricted to viewing and working only with authorized server/device Groups, and Report and Chart ownership limiting who can view and use Reports and Charts

• Monitor Select Windows Processes with 'ProcessWatch'; restart processes that should be running and terminate processes that should not be running; 
  Monitor CPU & Memory utilization thresholds on a per process basis

• Track and Display Hardware Configuration details of your monitored Windows servers & workstations

• Consolidated Network Status Display; and Memory and Logical Drive Monitoring Displays

View/Download MonitorIT Collateral Documents

View/Download MonitorIT Collateral Documents:

MonitorIT User's Guide

MonitorIT Upgrade Instructions

MonitorIT Revision List

MonitorIT Brochure

MonitorIT Slide Presentation