Monitor Software Product Comparisons

Calculated Status Monitor

This monitor lets you calculate its status by running a script on the statuses of other monitors.

Directory Quota Monitor

The Directory Quota Monitor keeps track of directory sizes, and executes actions if the directory sizes are over the quota. End users (directory owners) can be notified via email with the Monitor-Directed E-mail action. Includes reports.

Environment Monitor

Connects to an Esensors EM01b Websensor on the LAN and monitors the current temperature, humidity and luminescence, and notifies you if the values go above thresholds that you set. Historical reports as well.

Event Validator Monitor

Verifies that specific events, such as backup succeeded or anti-virus pattern file updated events are in the event log. If they are missing, fire alerts.

File Age Monitor

Monitor file ages and alert if the files become too old (good for watching server queues, spool directories, etc).

File & Directory Monitor

This monitor is a host-based IDS (Intrusion Detection System) that will notify you when the date, size or even content of a file changes. File creation and deletion is also monitored. A good tool to help with configuration management as well. Auto-configuration functionality is available.

File System Analyzer

Scan any size local or remote disk volume on a scheduled basis. Get in depth understanding of the files via rich reports including:

Inventory Alerter

Alerts on inventory data collected by the Inventory Collector monitor.

Log File Monitor

Periodically checks the content of one or more log files for target text. Target text and be a simple text phrase or a regular expression.

Performance Monitor

The entire breadth of the system Performance Counters can be monitored allowing you to set actionable thresholds on CPU usage, memory usage, NIC traffic, etc. Performance counter values are stored in a database so you can view historical counter reports and understand trends.

Process Monitor

Monitor that specified processes are running on Windows or Linux servers.

Service Monitor

Watches system services and runs customized actions (including restarting the service) if they are not running.

SNMP Trap Monitor

Receives SNMP Traps and optionally filters on trap text before running attached actions.

TCP Port Monitor

Makes a TCP connection on a specified port. Optionally send command text and check response text. Timing data is recorded for reporting purposes.

Web Page Monitor

Monitor one or many pages on a web site. Checks for positive cases (text that must be found), negative cases (alerts if error text found) and if the page has changed at all. Response times are checked and recorded, and reports can be generated to understand trends.

The All Errors report show all recent errors on all monitors on all servers/devices within a group. This is a good place to quickly get a detailed view of any problems happening on the network.

Generate reports on the fly to quickly see graphical trends

This report shows you what your current configuration is with your Groups, Servers, Monitors, and Actions.

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 Monitoring Product] Console application, or from a web browser

View all of the servers/devices within a group in a single report, grouping all computers and showing their status.

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.

See a graphical map that contains status indicators that show you at a glance how servers in different geographic regions are doing.

While a computer is in maintenance mode, [PA Monitoring Product] 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 Monitoring Product] 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.

Send basic configuration requests to the product via an HTTPS URL.

[PA Monitoring Product] for iPhone lets you stay up to date even if you're away

[PA Monitoring Product] 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 Monitoring Product] to have your name and graphics by simply dropping a couple of files into the installation directory. See Branding

Paste a list of servers or IP address into a list and let [PA Monitoring Product] inspect and self-configure for each server/device. Or easily copy the configuration from one configured server to one or more other servers.