With up.time, monitoring critical applications, databases,
web servers, network devices and critical system-level
services is a simple task. You can choose from any of
up.time's built-in monitors or quickly define your own
custom probes in minutes. Built-in template monitors are
easy to configure and include:
Application Monitors
- SQL Server[Enhanced]
- Monitor SQL
Server[Basic]
- IIS
- Exchange
- Oracle [Basic]
- Oracle [Enhanced]
- HTTP [Web Server]
- MySQL
- Check for Process
- External Event
- Sybase
Service Monitors
- Performance
- POP
- Windows Service Check
- DNS
- SMTP [Mail]
- Process Count
- FTP
- up.time
- File System Capacity
- Active Directory/LDAP
- Custom
- IMAP
- NNTP [News]
- TCP
- NFS
- PING
- UDP
- SNMP
- SAMBA
- YP [NIS]
- DHCP
- SSH
- Windows Event Log
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Active Directory/LDAP
Monitor
This monitor allows you to issue queries against Active
Directory or LDAP databases and check for specific responses
to validate that the directory services are alive and
responding properly within specified time limits.
CHK4 Monitor [Check for a Process]
Verify that critical processes are up and running with the
CHK4 Monitor, by specifying them by name and the time limit
within which they must respond.
Custom Monitor [User Definable]
For situations where the basic built-in up.time monitors are
not adequate to monitor special systems, applications and
proprietary devices, the Custom Monitor allows you to
execute custom scripts that you develop which then trigger
specific alerts. A powerful monitor to ensure up.time is
monitoring everything critical in your enterprise. Just tell
the Custom Monitor where your scripts are located and
up.time will execute them for you at the frequency you
specify.
DHCP Monitor
Monitor DHCP servers to ensure they are running and yielding
correct responses. The DCHP monitor issues a DHCP broadcast
request from the up.time Monitoring Station and then
immediately returns the allocated IP to the pool.
DNS Monitor
DNS Monitor asks the system specified in 'hostname' to
lookup the system specified in the DNS settings field. This
is equivalent to an 'nslookup' <hostname_with_dns><hostname_to_lookup>.
Exchange Monitor
The Exchange Monitor is used to identify when the Microsoft
Exchange performance counters that you care about exceed
specific thresholds. For example, if the number of inbound
connections surges, or the message queue length grows large
(indications of SPAM, Denial of Service Attacks, or simply
the inability to deliver mail), then up.time will notify you
immediately. The following MS Exchange thresholds can be
monitored:
-WebMail Message Sends/sec
-WebMail Authentications/sec
-SMTP Bytes Sent/sec
-SMTP Bytes Received/sec
-SMTP Bytes Total/sec
-SMTP Local Queue Length
-SMTP Messages Sent/sec
-SMTP Inbound Connections Current
-SMTP Outbound Connections Current
-SMTP Connection Error/sec
EXTEVENT Monitor [External Event Check]
Monitoring applications for critical error messages and then
taking recovery action is easy with the EXTEVENT Monitor.
These messages or events are sent to up.time which then
triggers the appropriate alerts.
FSCAP Monitor [File System Capacity Check]
Monitor all your critical files systems with the FSCAP
Monitor. The FSCAP Monitor looks at all file systems on the
monitored servers and compares their capacities to user
specified warning and critical thresholds, thereby warning
you of required action immediately. You can also include or
exclude filesystems to be checked based on regular
expressions.
FTP Monitor
This monitor attempts to open an FTP connection to a server
listening on a specified port and lets you know if it is up
and running. You can define the exact time limit or
threshold to complete the FTP request and then trigger the
appropriate Warning/Critical alerts.
HTTP Monitor [Web Server]
Monitor all your web servers and web services via HTTP
requests and take appropriate action if web servers are down
or not responding within your required time limits. Perform
basic checks with this monitor or more sophisticated
monitoring such as authenticating against web application
servers such as WebLogic or WebSphere, requesting specific
URLs and then validating the response received back from
your application servers.
IIS Monitor
In addition to the HTTP Monitor described above, which
indicates the availability of web services, the IIS Monitor
is a powerful tool for being notified when Microsoft IIS
performance counters exceed your thresholds. The following
metrics can be monitored:
-Bytes Sent/sec
-Bytes Received/sec
-Non-Anonymous Users/sec
-Current Connections
-Connection Attempts/sec
-Logon Attempts/sec
-GET Requests/sec
-POST Requests/sec
-CGI Requests/sec
-ISAPI Requests/sec
-Not Found Errors/sec
IMAP Monitor
Monitor the defaults IMAP ports of any mail servers and
quickly verify that they are responding within your
specified time boundaries.
MySQL Monitor
Monitor all instances of MySQL in your environment with the
MySQL probe. The monitor attempts to connect to the MySQL
database instances with user specified userid, password,
port and database parameters. Trigger alerts and take
corrective action when your MySQL databases are down or
responding too slowly.
NFS Monitor
This monitor executes a showmount -e command against the
monitored servers and extracts the exact number of NFS file
systems that are exported. If the check fails then alerts
are generated so you can initiate the appropriate recovery
activity.
NNTP Monitor [News]
Monitor your NNTP [News] services using this probe, which
issues a query against a news server on a specified port. If
the news server does not respond in the given warning or
critical time thresholds then alerts are generated.
Oracle [Basic] Monitor
Monitor all your Oracle database instances for availability
quickly and easily. This monitor offers two kinds of
availability checks: performing a tnsping against the
specified port for the Oracle instance on a specific host,
and/or running custom SQL*Plus commands against an Oracle
instance, to verify that Oracle is not only alive but
responding correctly.
Oracle[Enhanced] Monitor
Drill deep into all your Oracle database instances with the
Oracle[Enhanced] Monitor and perform in-depth service checks
against the following Oracle performance metrics, to ensure
the Oracle will meet the performance demands of your
mission-critical applications:
-Table Space Usage
-Buffer Cache Hit Ratio
-Data Dictionary Cache Hit Ratio
-Library Cache Hit Ratio
-Redo Log Space Request Rate
-Disk Sort Rate
-Active Sessions
-Blocking Sessions
-Idle Sessions
PING Monitor
The PING Monitor is a simple yet effective way to verify
whether your servers are up and responding. This probe sends
a configurable number of ICMP ping packets to the monitored
server and waits for a specific number of packets to return.
# of packets and wait time and user definable.
POP Monitor
Monitor all your standard POP mail servers for availability
with this probe, and take appropriate recovery action when
your mail servers do not respond within user specified time
limits.
ProcessCount Monitor
Keep a close eye on whether your mission-critical
applications, databases and web servers are spawning too
many processes and bogging down your servers, or whether an
application has run amok and is spawning processes
continuously when it should not be. This kind of activity
which can cause rapid performance deterioration can be
easily detected with the ProcessCount Monitor and give you
the time you need to take corrective action.
SMB Monitor [Windows Fileshares]
Monitor your SAMBA or Windows file servers effectively with
this monitor. The SMB probe can be executed to determine
whether file shares are available in general and/or whether
specific file shares are available, and then trigger alerts
accordingly.
SMTP Monitor [Mail]
Monitor your SMTP mail servers using this probe which tests
for the return of a standard mail response header. If an
SMTP mail server does not respond in the user specified
warning or critical time limits, then alerts are generated
to let you know your mail servers need attention.
SQL Server[Basic] Monitor
Monitor all your Microsoft SQL databases with this powerful
probe. The monitor allows you to check if the SQL instance
is responding on the standard communication port; and send
custom SQL Server scripts to the database for processing.
Look for the responses you need to ensure your SQL databases
are functioning properly and take corrective action when
they do not respond within the time limits you set.
SQL Server[Enhanced] Monitor
Drill deep into your Microsoft SQL databases with this
monitor which is designed to generate alerts based on SQL
servers exceeding critical performance counter thresholds
including:
-Tablespace Check
-Lock Waits/sec
-Lock Requests/sec
-Average Lock Wait Time (ms)
-User Connections
-Total Transactions/sec
-Total Data File Size (KB)
-Total Latch Wait Time (ms)
-Latch Waits/sec
-Average Latch Wait Time (ms)
-Maximum Workspace Memory (KB)
-Connection Memory (KB)
-Granted Workspace Memory (KB)
-SQL Cache Memory (KB)
-Total Server Memory (KB)
SNMP Monitor
The SNMP Monitor allows you to query all your SNMP devices
for specific OID (enterprise identification id) parameters,
and then compare the response to a specific pattern.
Generate alerts and take immediate recovery action when your
conditions are not met.
SSH Monitor [Secure Shell]
The Secure Shell Monitor tests to see if all SSH processes
are responding on their ports. Alerts are immediately
generated if the tests fail so you can take recovery action.
Sybase Monitor
Monitor all your Sybase databases using this powerful probe
to validate whether your Sybase instances are responding on
their standard communication ports; and also send
Sybase/Transact-SQL scripts to Sybase for processing to
verify that Sybase is not only alive but also responding
correctly.
TCP/UDP Monitor [Custom Ports]
The TCP monitor check is a powerful tool for verifying that
virtually any system service or application is alive and
responding. It allows you to specify a port to be checked
and timed for response within user specified time limits.
The UDP Monitor works exactly the same way except that all
session conversations are executed via UDP.
up.time Monitor [Agent]
This monitor quickly helps you verify that the up.time
server agents are up and running. This way you can rest
assured up.time itself is functioning properly and will
always be there for monitoring all your servers and
applications.
Windows Event Log Scanner
Automatically scan your Application, Security and System
event logs for critical conditions that you want to know
about on a continual basis. With up.time’s built-in Windows
Event Log Scanner you can quickly template the messages you
want to scan for and the instantly apply this check to all
servers across your enterprise. In addition, you can let
up.time initiate immediate and AUTOMATIC recovery of your
Windows services if they stop responding, by combining this
powerful check with the Windows Service Check monitor.
Windows Service Check Monitor
A very powerful monitor which allows you to monitor all your
critical Windows services and verify that they are
operational on a continual basis. In addition, you can let
up.time initiate immediate and AUTOMATIC recovery of your
Windows services if they stop responding. This is a simple
yet powerful tool for Windows Service management that will
reduce downtime and improve overall availability.
YP Monitor [NIS]
Monitor all your NIS servers for specific domains to ensure
they are responding, or go a step further and test to see
they are functioning properly by requesting a specific key
from an NIS table. Generate alerts and take immediate action
when a problem is detected. |