Linux, Unix and Device Monitoring
Although many of the PA Server Monitor features are Windows specific, there is a great deal of support for Unix-based operating systems like Linux and other network devices like routers and firewalls. This is accomplished through the standard-protocol monitors:
- CPU & Memory can be monitored using the standard Performance Monitor. When it detects that it's not communicating with a Windows server, it switches to SNMP in the background and simulates Windows CPU and memory counters.
- Disk Space can be monitored with the standard Disk Space Monitor. It too will switch to SNMP in the background and display disk volumes for monitoring.
- Ping Response monitoring can be directed at anything with an IP address. Reports and alerts are naturally supported too.
- The Mail Server monitor checks SMTP, POP3 and IMAP4 servers regardless of server operating system.
- Web Page monitoring can be done for web pages served from any HTTP server.
- The Process monitor uses SNMP behind the scenes to verify the specified processes are running on Linux/Unix.
- Direct SNMP monitoring can be applied to anything that supports SNMP. Our MIB parser makes it simple to browse through the SNMP objects of a device.
- SNMP Traps can be received from any device, filtered, alerted on, and reported on.
- Syslogs events can be received from any device. You can specify which to alert on. Reporting is also supported.
- Monitoring FTP servers works fine using the FTP Server monitor.
- The TCP Port monitor connects to a specified TCP port, and optionally sends a string of data and checks for an output string.
- With Samba installed such that a Windows computer can access the remote disk:
- Log File monitoring should work fine.
- The File & Directory monitor will work fine with one big caveat: If you are checking sub-directories there can't be recursive links because the difference between a link and child directory can't be determined from Windows.
- File Age monitor should work fine.
PA Server Monitor downloads and installs quickly, and is easy to configure. We suggest trying the fully-functional 30-day trial to see how it works in your environment.
Please feel free to ask any questions or make suggestions at the regular support address: 
