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Note To Readers:
Below you find links to what our
staff considers to be the best software available in this
category. Efforts have been made to assure a good selection
while eliminating software that we do not feel is worthy of
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2Morrow Visual Server Monitor
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Visually Monitor Your Servers!
2Morrow Visual Server Monitor (VSM) is a powerful application built to help you visually diagnose and monitor critical systems on your servers (local or remote) in real-time.
Real-Time "Touch-less" Monitoring!
VSM collects information in real-time and gives immediate feedback when something is wrong. You can monitor any computer on your network you have access to. You do not need to install any software on remote machines to monitor them, VSM will gather remote data right from your desktop!
The visual nature of the application makes it easy to spot problem areas with just a glance. You can customize your severity colors and levels, play sound files when severity levels are reached, and even launch programs.
Colorization and visual speed changes bring your attention right to the spot the issues are arising.
Monitor Critical Systems
VSM graphically displays data movement, disk I/O subsystem, paging files, cache and memory information as well as processes. You can quickly see bog-downs and congestion problems and fix them before they become critical. Some of the critical areas include System information, Networking subsystem, CPU, Processes and Threads, Memory, Page and Cache subsystems, logical drive information and much more... Best of all is you get to keep an eye on all these areas of your machines on one screen with the ability to drill-down for more detail!
VSM Features:
- Easy to use visual interface
- Graph historical data up to 24 hours with "zoom-in" capability
- Simple installation
- Monitor several systems at once
- Audible alerts
- Run programs on alert
- Highly customizable
- "No-Touch" remote monitoring.
- No client software to load on monitored remote servers
- and more...
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Alchemy Network Monitor
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An advanced, powerful, and feature rich network server monitor that monitors your servers or network devices and notifies you when a problem occurs. Compatible with any type of server, Alchemy Network Monitor monitors server's work using a variety of protocols and services, including ICMP ping, NT event log, HTTP(s) and FTP URLs, disk space control, NT service state monitoring, Oracle Server, Microsoft SQL Server and virtually any SQL-compatible database server monitoring, SMTP, POP3, IMAP, NNTP and TELNET protocols, as well as some others. This tool can also perform user-defined monitoring by executing custom VBScript programs or external Windows applications and batch files, as well as analyzing program's exit code.
It is estimate that network failures cost 3-5 billion dollars to companies each year. In fact, most surveys show that an average network administrator reports 3 to 15 serious network malfunctions annually. Yet most of these problems could be easily avoided, if the administrator had proper network monitoring software installed. Alchemy Network Monitor is a network monitoring tool that continuously monitors network server availability and performance, and alerts the network administrator in the event of network errors BEFORE these problems get seriously out of hand.
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IPSentry Network Monitoring Software 4.7.0
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IPSentry network monitoring software is a Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003 based network monitoring software package used by thousands of Information System specialists, system administrators, and IT solution providers around the world.
When you purchase IPSentry network monitoring software, you are buying a powerful network administration tool which will continuously monitor your internet and intranet servers, routers, modems, databases, services, event logs, and more, 24 hours per day; insuring that your network and devices are functioning properly. If a problem is detected, various alerts and notifications can be triggered to make sure you are aware of the problem as soon as possible.
With IPSentry, you can choose from various alert and notification options, such as pager, cell phone, email, audible alerts, external power control for lights and sirens, system reboots, service restarts, and more.
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Server Nanny Network Monitoring Software
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Our network monitoring software is a server monitor and network monitor that detects problems, sends alerts, and even corrects failures.
Server Nanny...
- Monitors servers and network 24x7
- Sends failue notifications
- Performs automated corrective actions
- Logs and graphs performance data
- Is easy to set up and use
- Does not require an external database
- Runs on Windows 2000, XP and 2003
- Starts at only $99
Let our network monitor keep an eye on your servers and network devices, and you can spend your time focusing on other important tasks.
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ServerObserver™ Network Monitor 4.1
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ServerObserver is a monitoring tool to observe web servers, file servers, mail servers, databases, directories, and domain name systems. It can measure CPU/disk usage, detect the vitality of any process, and search event logs. It is useful to network operators and system administrators.
Main Features:
Monitoring
ServerObserver™ can monitor your servers working on any operating systems if you only
inform it of your servers and your concerns. ServerObserver periodically monitors web
servers (HTTP, HTTPS), mail servers(POP3,SMTP),
directories (LDAP), databases (Microsoft SQL Server,
MySql, ORACLE, Informix, Sybase), domain name
systems (DNS), file servers (FTP), SNMP, and any TCP port of any server as well as inquire out a server alive (PING).
You can observe the system resources of Windows, UNIX, and LINUX servers. It investigates the CPU usage, Memory usage, the disk usage, network interface, load averages, file size and event logs. It can find whether a process is running as well.
Monitor something by running VB script file. For instance, Directory size. Whether a NT service is running? Whether a printer is up? You can write your own script file.
Notification
You can instruct the ServerObserver to inform you of notable situations (such as no response, the excess of RTT/CPU usage/disk usage, the detection of modified pages, the recovery from other notable situation) by sending an e-mail, by showing a popup window message, by performing a VB script, by executing an external application, and/or by play a sound. You can ask the ServerObserver for sending an SMS message on your cell phone.
Reporting
Reports come to your hand! The report wizard of ServerObserver generates daily, weekly, and monthly reports on monitoring results. You can choose the type of report among HTML text, MS Word document, and MS PowerPoint document.
View monitoring status on the web
It provides a web server that lets you view the status of your network from any web browser.
You can enable/disable the web server and add/modify HTML view.
HTML views are generated every monitoring interval and can be accessed on any web browser.
Logging
All monitoring results are written to the following directory by default: <My Documents>\ServerObserver 4.0. You can specify how many days old logs will be before being deleted or backup. If you want to backup, you need to specify the backup directory.
Utilities
The Ping Util is a network diagnostic tool used to verify connectivity to a remote device. The SNMP Util lets you view information from a remote device that supports SNMP.
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ServersCheck
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Software to monitor IT-systems availability and performance
ServersCheck is a browser-based network monitoring tool. It monitors, reports on, and alerts as to system availability and performance.
It can monitor TCP ports, HTTP, FTP, DNS, check ODBC-compliant databases, execute SQL statements, trap SNMP values, check content in URLs, and verify the existence of URLs. It monitors SMTP and POP3 systems. It also checks the availability of Lotus Notes databases. It does this for Unix, Linux, Windows, and other OSs. On Windows platforms it checks for disk space, NT services, processes, the CPU, and memory, and scans the event log. On Linux it monitors process availability. When an outage occurs, it can alert you via voice phone (text-to-speech), e-mail, pager, SMS, MSN, HTTP, or network message, and execute an application, start a service, or reboot a server. Additional features include customizable HTML reports and graphs.
ServersCheck is the best solution for all type of companies: large organizations can deploy to monitor systems within different
departments or in addition of other monitoring systems. Small and medium businesses can deploy ServersCheck to monitor all their systems as one of the most cost effective and
powerful solutions in the monitoring software market.
ServersCheck runs on Windows 2003/2000/XP Professional based systems and can monitor any OS based system or device (Windows, Linux, Unix, MacOs, FreeBSD, ...). Click here to download a free trial.
The software can be installed in one of the following 16 languages:
English, French, German, Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Greek, Hebrew and Simplified Chinese.
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