Automatic monitoring of the remote computers hardware and software
Automatic monitoring of the remote computers hardware and software
Whether you are working as a system administrator or owning and directing some kind of small company by yourself, someday you will understand that the business is growing. The more personnel are working in it, the more computers are needed. The more computers are needed, the lager your local network became, and the more servers, programs and utilities are running on daily basis. It is not an easy task to take care of their functionability. Let's view some examples and understand what kind of trouble you can collide.
No person is normally think about this, but it is fairly important to monitor the quantity of available free space on your HDD drive, because some services can fail due to an inability to save its data. And you can, really, lose this data. In addition, insufficient disk space might make it impossible for your paging file to grow to support virtual memory.
Here is another scenario. Sometimes utilities can load CPU very strong. For example, when too many instances are connected to some server, or when too many difficult calculation tasks are running at the same time. When they do it for a significant period of time, processor can became superheated and badly hurted, and your system will not work correctly.
In all situations it is a good idea to learn about the possible problem before it will really take place. As the system administrator, it is your duty to keep an eye on all constituents. The status of system resources and usage can change vastly over time. Services may stop running. Hard drive systems may run out of space. Utilities can generate errors, which in turn may initiate the system issues. If you use one computer, then maybe you can manage this by yourself. When you have several computers, it becomes the real trouble. Luckily, you will not need to do it manually, you just need a network monitoring software that will do the heavy work for you.
ProtoMon is a efficient network and server monitoring software that will automatically monitor the system parameters of the any number of the remote computers. You will only need to install a tiny and fast ProtoMonAgent system service on all computers you need to monitor. This service uses very small amount of RAM and processor resources. It is able to monitor almost any parameter of the system including CPU and memory usage (global and per process), free disk space, running processes and system services, registry values and so on.
ProtoMon periodically queries the agents' statuses. Within a single query it can monitor any number of the remote system parameters. You need to enter the success criteria - a logical expression which contains one or several inequations with macroes connected together by the boolean operators (and, or). Each macros gets one computer variable: maximum CPU load, total pagefile size, service status, etc. If the success criteria are not met, the software will let you know immediately using different types of notifications. It is able to display a pop-up notification window, playback a sound, run any program, or send a notification message to the system administrator. Well, it cannot make you a coffee. So while you are making a coffee, let ProtoMon to monitor your network.