Server Monitoring Software

OpManager monitors:

• Server availability, System Resources and Hardware Health (CPU/Memory/ Disk Utilization, Server Temperature, RAID failure & etc…)
• Critical Services (DNS, IMAP, SMTP, Echo, LDAP, Telnet, FTP, NNTP, Web logic & etc…) and Windows Services
• URLs (HTTP/ HTTPs, Authenticated Sites together with Content Check)
• Processes
• SysLog & Event Logs
• ESX Vmware, all flavors of Windows & Linux Servers, HP-UX, IBM AIX & more, out-of-the-box!
• Applications viz. Active Directory, MS-Exchange, Lotus Dominos, MS-SQL monitoring, Oracle & much more.

Besides out-of-the-box monitors, you can also configure custom monitors using OpManager.

OpManager is a cost-effective and scalable network management software designed for managing today's complex, growing networks. Pricing begins at $995 for monitoring upto 50 devices and the small network 10-node edition is available free of cost!

Activeworx Security Center is a cost-effective security information management system that provides real-time security device log monitoring with alerts, audit and compliance reports, and tools for advanced, in-depth forensic analysis. Activeworx consolidates and manages alerts from multiple vendors and security devices.

Activeworx reduces the time it takes to analyze event data from multiple sources and produces real-time reports that pinpoint network security breaches and vulnerabilities. These in-depth reports provide the details necessary for regulatory compliance reporting for Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, and the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act.

There are events that are being triggered from many different security devices on your network. Each of these events has its own key points of interest. Instead of removing the details, Activeworx acts as an event tracker and preserves these key points to enable you to take advantage of all the information within each event. It does this by allowing you to have multiple database types, including events from:

• Intrusion Detection Systems, including Snort
• Syslog Events
• Firewall Events
• Vulnerability Scans
• TCPDump Packets
• Keystroke Loggers

When problems are detected, you're immediately notified by network message, e-mail, pager, or SMS message. When a failure is detected, the network monitor tool will try to recover the problem by running a system administrator defined program or by restarting a process.

ActiveXperts Network Monitor features the following:

• Checks (IP-based): ICMP, DNS, HTTP(s), FTP, SMTP, POP3, SNMP, SNMP Traps, LDAP, NTP, NNTP and more
• Checks (Windows OS): CPU, File/Directory, Disks, Event Log, Memory, Process, Service, Terminal Server and more
• Checks (Windows BackOffice): MS Exchange, MS SharePoint, MS ISA, MS Message Queue and more
• Checks (Windows Anti-Virus): McAfee, Norton, NOD32, Kaspersky, Trend Micro, Sophos, Avast, AVG, Norman, Panda and more
• Checks (Linux/Unix OS): CPU, File/Directory, Disks, Memory, Daemon and more
• Checks (Environmental): Temperature, Humidity, Wetness, Smoke, Motion, Resistance, Light, Door, Power and more
• Checks (Database): MS SQL, MySQL, Oracle, MS Access, ODBC, OLE/DB (Progress, SyBase, Informix, Paradox, IBM DB2, …)
• Custom Checks (Windows): PowerShell, VBScript
• Custom Checks (Linux/Unix): SSH, RSH
• Notifications: E-mail, SMS (GSM, SMPP, HTTP), Pager, SNMP Trap, Network Popup

ActiveXperts Network Monitor costs EURO 690.00 for a perpetual Enterprise License (one time fee!). This includes one year maintenace (support and upgrades).

Alchemy Eye is a system management tool that continuously monitors server availability and performance. In the event of network errors, Alchemy Eye can alert the network administrator by cell phone or pager BEFORE problems get seriously out of hand. This helps protect your company's data and reduces the likelihood of costly network failures. If a server goes down, Alchemy Eye automatically notifies the network administrator and writes a detailed log file.

Key features include: Download & verify pages, Test form submission, Testing multiple page variations, error diagnostics, error screenshots, performance tracking, interactive reports, unlimited alert contacts, alert escalation levels, multiple geographic locations, full control panel, remote test kit.

AlertBot provides service to all types of businesses ranging from small businesses to some of the world’s largest and most recognized brands. AlertBot’s focus on quality makes them a clear choice for anyone who runs a serious business.

Getting started with AlertBot is easy. There is no software to install, no systems to maintain, no IT resources to waist. They do all the hard work for you. You can literally signup and configure your monitoring within minutes. Best of all, they have a no hassle 14 day free trial. If you’re not sure what you need or how to configure it, AlertBot also provides free full-service evaluations of your needs. They can propose a monitoring strategy for your website and set it up for you. Just request a consultation with one of their account consultants.

Using either TCP/IP, SNMP or Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI), nVision can identify and monitor:

• Mail, web servers and URLs
• TCP/IP and Windows services (with the ability to restart failed services)
• Applications health and performance (MS SQL, Exchange, etc.)
• Switches and routers: interface status, network traffic and nodes connected to every port
• Windows and SNMP device performance - such as CPU utilization, memory, disk space, network transfers, etc.

The network is automatically discovered and presented on interactive graphical map.
nVision automatically collects node hardware and software information: model, CPU, memory, main board, drives, cards, etc., installed applications and Windows updates. It allows license usage auditing and verification. It will also alert you in case of a program installation or any configuration change on a remote node. Optional agents can monitor user activity: user activity/inactivity time, application usage, visited web pages. The agent provides also workstation remote control.

The program provides a wide range of alerts and reports: real-time and historical charts, system & application performance, service and host availability, interface traffic and utilization, inventory, user activity.

Big Brother monitors System and Network-delivered services for availability. Your current network status is displayed on a color-coded web page in near-real time. When problems are detected, you're immediately notified by e-mail, pager, or text messaging.

It is a Web-based system and network monitoring solution. It is highly scalable, customizable and easy to maintain. It checks availability of devices, servers (Windows, Linux) and network delivered services in any IT WAN/LAN network. Big Brother is built for Network administrators and Support Engineers tasked with managing the availability and performance of servers and network devices on a limited budget.

Distinct Network Monitor translates complex protocol negotiation into natural language, pinpointing where errors occurred. Not only is it easier to use than any other competing products, but it also translates the packet negotiation into natural language, something no other network protocol analyzer does.

Distinct Network Monitor also captures several network traffic statistics for the network segment being monitored and provides a graphical representation of the statistics gathered. This feature may be used together with packet sniffing or on its own. When used on its own, the statistics can potentially span most of the network if Distinct Agents are installed on one system per subnet or switch.

Feature Summary: Captures network traffic and interprets it in plain English. Gives an intelligent interpretation of what actually happened on the network. Imports packet trace files taken with other networks analyzers and views them in Distinct’s plain English format. Supports high speed and wireless networks. Supports 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet and wireless TCP/IP adapters and 4/16 Token Ring cards. Works over serial line with a PPP connection. It allows you to filter at any level. You may filter the capture itself to avoid the collection of unnecessary packets and reduce the size of your capture. You may also filter a captured file and save the packets filtered to a new, smaller, more manageable file. Has a Remote IP Sniffing capability through its Agents. Gathers statistics related to the traffic seen by the system it is running on. It includes the ability to produce statistical reports in HTML format. Exports the network packet trace. This allows you to make use of the data gathered right in your application. Packet header information may be exported in a comma separated format (CSV) for use with Excel or imported into a database. Supports a wide range of protocols. It includes parsers for the most important protocols of the Internet including IP, TCP, UDP, HTTP, SMTP, FTP, POP3, IMAP, LDAP, H323, SIP, etc.

Built-in monitoring rules include: Exchange Server 2000/2003, MS SQL, Oracle and ODBC databases, CPU usage, FTP & HTTP Servers Group Membership, Active Directory & NTDS, Disk Drive health, Disk Space, Event Log (with content checking), File Existence (with content checking), TCP, UDP, ICMP/Ping, SMTP & POP3 Mail Servers, Printers, Processes, Services, UNIX Shell Scripts (RSH), SNMP & Terminal Server. You can also write custom monitor functions in Vbscript and leverage ADSI and WMI, allowing you to monitor virtually anything.

GFI Network Server Monitor tests the status of a service by actually logging on, testing and logging off, rather than deducing a service status from generated events (as other products do), which is the only real way to ensure server uptime!

Research by IDC shows that up to 40% of employee internet activity is non-work related! GFI WebMonitor for ISA Server can help boost employee productivity by giving you total control over what your employees can browse and what files they can download in real-time.

GFI WebMonitor also allows you to monitor user downloads in real-time, letting you block file-types such as mp3s. It also scans all files for viruses, spyware and malware using multiple anti-virus engines. This drastically decreases the time to obtain virus signatures, thereby reducing the possibility of infection.

Furthermore, GFI WebMonitor lowers the risk of social engineering by blocking access to phishing websites through the use of an auto-updatable database of phishing URLs.

Enterprise can serve as a customer's only network management system or serve as part of an integrated solution for IT Service Management. An Enterprise deployment may integrate with event log solutions like Splunk and can be easily configured to report its results to the consoles of other major monitoring tools. Try Enterprise for $49.

HealthMonitor features include:

• 50 different checks for system and network (connectivity, database, e-mail, performance, SQL Server, Exchange, and others).
• dynamic error levels and actions when some problem is detected (send e-mail, sms, open a ticket, launch a script).
• IT Asset management: hardware and software discovery, additional asset management, peripherals, processes and services from all machines.
• Microsoft patches availability check and quick installation.
• remote installation or upgrade of the HealthMonitor Agent or other software on all workstations.
• integrated trouble ticketing.

From the userfriendly AJAX-based web interface, you will be able to view and analyze information about your system, manage your clients, check performance, carry out realtime checks and fix errors and problems, terminate processes, restart services, install and upgrade software, run scripts, and generate reports on nearly every feature of your system.

HealthMonitor makes system administration easy and effective, and will allow you to enhance your system performance and security, prevent problems, and minimize downtime.

HP OpenView enterprise-management software tools are fundamental to IT organizations' ability to deliver desktop, service and availability management in Internet computing environments. According to International Data Corporation, HP is the largest producer of enterprise-management solutions. The HP OpenView program consists of a broad portfolio of more than 300 HP OpenView-based management solutions from HP and HP OpenView Solution Partners, and a complete set of services designed to help IT organizations improve service levels and reduce costs.

ipMonitor is easy to install and configure. The step-by-step "Getting Started" checklist walks new users through an extensive product tour, common tasks configuration, and a fully integrated inline Help system.

Among many other features, ipMonitor 7.5 offers a secure web-based interface, Self-Signed Certificates, improved Credentials management, a SOAP interface, and a Discovery Wizard.

With over 40 monitors and more than 15 Alerting options, you can depend on ipMonitor to pinpoint performance degradations and fix them before they can affect your productivity, your customers, or your bottom line.

IPSentry is a utility that will continuously monitor all your Internet and intranet TCP/IP network servers, 24 hours a day, checking if services are active and responding. In the event of failure, IPSentry will notify you (according to the defined schedule) via any or all of several different methods, including pager notification, e-mail, audible alert, or a configurable 'launch external application' option. NT users can also use an ICMP (ping) option. IPSentry can be used as an NT service and features an ActiveX add-in, drive space monitoring, alpha/SMS paging, alerting and notification options, and external power control alerts. The previous version featured enhanced pager notification functionality, several new notification options features, optimized polling delays, and an improved user interface.

LANScan Network Monitor records network activity and reports usage in real time via a powerful graphics interface. With LANScan you can quickly view bandwidth utilization, identify network users, view network activity by program type, locate problems, and more. LANScan Network Monitor makes long term network activity logging easy with a simple data logging facility that creates data which can easily be used in any reporting program. LANScan also includes Internet test functions like PING and TRACERT, logging of activity by MAC, IP, IPX and/or Domain name, fast installation, and more. LANScan requires no special hardware or software. This version improves LANScan's performance on larger networks, and adds ARP-based name resolution.

Applications Manager provides in depth monitoring of

• J2EE Application Servers (WebLogic, WebSphere, WebLogic Integration, JBoss, Tomcat),
• J2EE Web Transactions,
• Microsoft Applications (Microsoft .NET, SQL Server, Windows, Exchange),
• IBM Applications (AIX, IBM WebSphere, IBM DB2),
• SOAP Web Services,
• SAP Servers,
• Custom Java, JMX, J2EE applications,
• web sites with performance monitoring, fault management and notification capability.

Monitor 25 Applications for $795 / Year

It also supports sFlow, IPFIX, NetStream and J-Flow. It helps you view in-depth bandwidth reports across your WAN and LAN without having to deploy expensive hardware probes.

ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer uses Cisco's NBAR technology and can analyze and identify application traffic in real time. NetFlow Analyzer supports Cisco CBQoS, which helps in monitoring class based pre policy, post policy usage, drops and queuing. It also generates usage based billing, which helps you keep a tab on the bandwidth usage and thus adding tremendous value to your business.

Salient Features:

• Troubleshoot network incidents faster
• Ensure application performance
• Take informed capacity planning decisions
• Secure your network against threats
• Create your own IP departments and divisions
• Automatic alerting when usage thresholds are violated
• Add custom applications based on ports/hosts
• Validate the QoS policies
• Support for usage based billing and charge-back
• Reporting on Cisco CBQoS

Nagios is a system and network monitoring application. It checks hosts and servicesy, alerting you when things turn out wrong.

Nagios includes the following features:

• Monitoring network services, incl. (SMTP, POP3, NNTP, PING and more
• Monitoring host resources, incl. processor load, disk usage and more
• Offers tools to easily develop their own service checks
• Simultaneous service checks
• Support for network host hierarchy using parents and childs hosts
• Notify when problems occur and get resolved; support for email and pager
• Web interface for viewing current network status

NetWatch is a web based, simple to use management tool that offers complete visibility of the health and status of network devices in a format that can be tailored for all levels of technical competence. It’s unique presentation style means that for the first time ever, business users of IT can view network operations or bandwidth usage and ensure that valuable network resources are allocated on a business basis rather than pre-determined by the IT department

It stores inventory snapshots of the whole network and allows tracking all hardware changes, auditing software licenses and collecting invaluable network data. With Network Inventory Advisor you can manage Windows, Mac OS, Linux nodes and other network devices in one place.

Get the free award-winning server monitoring tool from ObserveIT. Record and Replay all user sessions on your network servers. Any remote access or console session is searchable and ready for playback! Protocol-agnostic: ObserveIT records Terminal Server, Citrix, Remote Desktop, VMware, Dameware, VNC and more. You'll be up and running in minutes, and will understand why the world's leading banks, manufacturers, telco and healthcare companies rely on ObserveIT to generate secure compliance audits, to monitor 3rd-party vendors and to improve system uptime.

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Quest ChangeAuditor for Active Directory tracks, audits, reports, and alerts on important configuration changes—in real-time. It is designed to prevent unauthorized changes from disrupting your Windows environment.
IT Administrators will instantly know who made a change, what change, and when, where and why. Additionally, IT Administrators get the past and current values for troubleshooting purposes. IT Administrators can then generate intelligent, in-depth forensics for the management—and reduce the risks associated with day-to-day modifications.

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), domain name systems(DNS), file servers(FTP), and any TCP port of any server as well as inquire out a server alive(PING). You can specify the tolerance limit of the round-trip time(RTT) in the normal state. ServerObserver sends a request and measures the RTT, and notifies you if the RTT exceeds the limit. You can detect whether a web page is modified. ServerObserver compares the current content of the page specified by a URL with the content acquired in the last monitoring. You can observe the performance of Windows servers. ServerObserver investigates the CPU usage, the disk usage, and event logs. It can find whether a process is running as well.

Notification : You can instruct the ServerObserver to inform you of notable situations (such as no response, the excess of RTT(or CPU usage or disk usage), the detection of modified pages, the recovery from other notable situation) by sending an e-mail, showing a popup window message, performing a VB script, executing an external application, and/or play a sound. You can ask the ServerObserver for sending an SMS message on your mobile phone and pager.

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 and MS PowerPoint document.

WhatsUp Gold, the scalable enterprise version of the original WhatsUp product, has been designed for large, hierarchical networks. With an all-new multithreaded architecture, WhatsUp Gold monitors multiple maps and/or multiple subnets simultaneously. By providing multiple monitoring views of the core network database, WhatsUp Gold allows you to view critical network information to determine the status of your networks. It features more intelligent network mapping, a more open architecture, enhanced monitoring tools, and much more.

Additionally the business centric view also helps prioritize alerts in production as it helps visualize the Business Applications that are impacted.

Applications Manager provides in depth monitoring of

• J2EE Application Servers (WebLogic, WebSphere, WebLogic Integration, JBoss, Tomcat),
• GlassFish and Sliverstream Application Server,
• Database Query monitoring,
• Active Directory monitoring,
• J2EE Web Transactions,
• Microsoft Applications (Microsoft .NET, SQL Server, Windows, Exchange),
• IBM Applications (AIX, IBM WebSphere, IBM DB2),
• SOAP Web Services,
• SAP Servers,
• Custom Java, JMX, J2EE applications,
• Monitor your network from Applications Manager by integrating ManageEngine OpManager through Network Monitoring Connector,
• Web sites with performance monitoring, fault management and notification capability.

In addition to systems and network management, Zyrion Traverse also does application monitoring of databases, web apps, java applications, mail servers, exchange, blackberry enterprise server, etc.

Some key features include:

• Bandwidth monitor
• Linux Server monitoring
• Windows Monitoring
• Cisco router monitoring
• Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server monitor
• Exchange, Active directory, etc.

Reports include:

• SLA
• Real time event logs, traps, syslogs
• Capacity planning
• Performance and Trend analysis

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