Web Monitoring Software

Do you know what's up with your network? What's going on right now with all those network devices, servers, and applications that are the magic behind your business? We can relate!

To keep on top of what's happening with all of those moving parts, you need an easy-to-use, reliable monitoring solution that enables you to get a leg up on problems before you get swamped with calls from those high-maintenance users over in accounting.

ipMonitor delivers out-of-the-box availability monitoring that is perfect for small- and medium-sized businesses. With ipMonitor, you always know exactly what's happening with your applications, servers, and network devices. Plus, ipMonitor includes a built-in database and Web server, so you don't need to install anything but ipMonitor - making it fast, affordable, and easy, even if you don't have a PhD in network management.

ipMonitor Highlights:

• Quickly discovers IP-based network devices and automatically recommends SmartMonitor settings for each device - a huge time savings as no manual configuration is required
• Performs out-of-the-box monitoring of Active Directory(r), DNS, Microsoft(r) Exchange, FTP, Web, IMAP, MS SQL Server(tm), SMTP, and more
• Enables both logical and dynamic grouping of devices to facilitate organization and management
• Monitors end-user experience with synthetic transactions
• Creates customizable network maps that enable you to visually monitor network data and to drill down to take immediate corrective actions
• Automates recovery and remediation actions to reduce downtime
• Provides a cutting-edge user interface and dashboard that enable you to quickly get a clear view of the health of your network and application infrastructure
• Leverages SNMP, WMI, and RPC for agent-less monitoring of critical applications and systems

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.

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.

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

Typical web transactions are customer logins, navigation through a product catalog, products search, order fulfillment, submitting different types of web forms, and other user interactions with a website or web application. The Web Transaction monitor add-on for IPHost Network Monitor supports monitoring of the functionality listed above. It can check pages with a dynamically generated content (product catalog); page request parameters can also be dynamic (generated by a server session or specified by the user), it supports form submission, logging into a web application or e-commerce site, admin panel actions, and so on.

The Web transaction recorder (which looks and acts like a web browser) lets you create a monitor by simply navigating through the web pages which use the functionality you'd like to monitor. The Replay function provides you with the ability to visually check that web transaction recording goes flawlessly and the resulting monitor will work correctly. This function is extremely helpful when you have been notified about performance or availability problems with your application; replaying the same request sequence in the recorder helps you to understand which steps are OK and which are not as well as to validate the fixes you might have made to restore the operability of your application.

Other features of IPHost Network Monitor. Supported Monitoring Methods:

• SNMP v1/v2/v3
• WMI - CPU load, available memory, traffic in/out, custom WMI script
• Web sites and services monitoring - HTTP/HTTPS GET and POST requests including response validation, FTP
• Database servers - Oracle, MySQL native support, other databases via ODBC
• Mail - SMTP including actual sending of e-mail, POP3, IMAP
• File size
• Disc space
• Windows service availability
• Basic connectivity checks - PING, TCP connect, UDP datagram send/receive
• Running a script or program, including Nagios plugins
• Remote execution of a script or program via SSH

Supported Alerting Methods:

• Send e-mail
• Send SMS (text message) over GSM modem / cell phone
• Send SMS (text message) over email
• Execution of a script or program (for automatic problem resolving)
• Remote execution of a script via SSH
• Setting SNMP variable value (SNMP SET command)
• Play sound (both on the host computer and in the Web interface)
• Show pop-up message
• Send Jabber message
• Send ICQ message
• Send AOL IM message

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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