PA File Sight Features

Monitoring remote servers, even across the firewalls and the Internet

Securely connect to monitored servers with Remote Desktop even through firewalls and across the Internet with PA File Sight

Inventory Collector

Collects inventory information (hardware information, pending Windows Update, anti-virus status, etc) from a variety of sources including WMI, SNMP and an optional System Details application.

Call URL

This action will call a URL you specify, optionally posting information about the current alert. This makes it easy to connect to a helpdesk/ticketing system.

E-mail Alert

Sends SMTP email messages to mail boxes, cell phones, mobile devices, etc. The E-mail action has Alert Digests which are a powerful/friendly feature that combines multiple alerts that happen within a short time into a single email notification. This can be very helpful when something goes really wrong. You can easily specify when messages should be sent or suppressed.

Message Box

A simple message box that displays monitor findings. These message boxes are smart: if there are many pending alerts you can easily dismiss them all at once.

Pager Alert via SNPP

Send monitor results to pagers via standard Simple Network Paging Protocol (SNPP). You can easily specify when messages should be sent or suppressed, and the content of the message.

Play Sound

Audible alert when monitors detect a problem with the server.

SMS Text Message

Send SMS text messages to your mobile device via your service providers SMS Internet gateway (SMPP server). You can control which information gets sent, as well as when messages are allowed.

Start Application

Starts a specified application when the monitor triggers actions

Syslog

Sends monitor alerts to a Syslog server on the network

Write to Log File

Log the findings of any triggered monitor to a file. Separate files can be created for each day, week, month, etc.

This report shows all of your servers in a group in a single page. Each server is a small box that is color coded according to the status of the monitors on that server.

Easily brand reports with your company logo at the top

Group summary reports can be specified and controlled in a per-group way. In addition, group reports can be automatically emailed to anyone that needs to keep track of the servers.

Reports are generated in HTML and accessible from within the PA File Sight Console application, or from a web browser

Quickly see the current status of an individual Satellite Monitoring Service.

You can create scheduled reports which will get created when you want them, and optionally email the report to a list of recipients. Scheduled report URLs are stable so you can add them to your Favorites list to quickly and easily see the latest results.

Quickly see which monitors are running, how long they are taking, which actions are being fired and more.

While a computer is in maintenance mode, PA File Sight won't run monitors. It will turn itself back on automatically after the maintenance window expires if you manually entered maintenance mode, or it can automatically enter and leave maintenance mode on a schedule.

Perform changes of settings in actions, monitors, reports and scheduling for several servers at one time, or copy configuration settings to other servers.

Easily point PA File Sight at the embedded SQLite database or use an external Microsoft SQL Server.

"...hands down the most straight-forward, uncluttered and effective monitoring tool I have used" - A satisfied customer

Keep track of which errors have been reviewed and acknowledged. Also a great way for administrators to have an overview of any errors within their area of responsibility.

PA File Sight is composed of a console that you interact with, and a system service that is started when the computer boots up and is always running in the background.

Easily brand PA File Sight to have your name and graphics by simply dropping a couple of files into the installation directory. See Branding