gHacks technology news » it service view http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:24:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Server Monitoring Software IT Service View http://www.ghacks.net/2009/05/21/server-monitoring-software-it-service-view/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/05/21/server-monitoring-software-it-service-view/#comments Thu, 21 May 2009 19:50:06 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2009/05/21/server-monitoring-software-it-service-view/ microsoft windowsProfessional webmasters and system administrators have to make sure that their websites, servers and networks are running all the time. One way to ensure that is by running server monitoring software like IT Service View. Similar programs and services that we have covered in the past include the website monitoring software Sitemonitor, the website monitor and downloader Wysigot, the network monitoring software Nettools or the online service Livewatch that is being used to monitor the server Ghacks is running on.

IT Service View is probably the server monitoring software with the broadest range of monitoring possibilities. They range from monitoring websites to Linux and Windows Server 2003 / 2008 servers to Microsoft Exchange Servers to Oracle servers and log files. The server monitoring is compatible with Microsoft Windows XP, Vista and Server 2003. It will display a wizard after installation that is walking the user through the configuration of the program.

The less complex monitoring services take only a few seconds to setup. Setting up a website monitoring service in the software that monitored the Ghacks database did not take longer than a minute. It has to be noted that the script that checks the database is already installed on the Ghacks server, the implementation itself was straightforward.

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Several parameters can be configured in the setup phase. It is for example possible to define a maximum response time, time out, expected http codes, error texts and text that the website has to contain.

The even responses are highly configurable as well. They are divided into the possible scenarios “no response”, “error”, “error text”, “text not found”, “time out” and “slow web page” when configuring the website monitoring service.

Each of these can launch a series of responses including sending emails, running local programs, shutting down or rebooting windows, managing a Windows service and launching a Windows process.

Some or all of these event responses are displayed whenever configuring a new monitoring service in the server monitoring software.

The monitoring software displays various statistics about each configured job including graphs, log entries and script outputs.

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The server monitoring services can monitor key variables on the servers including free computer memory, cpu utilization, service and process statuses and free disk space. Some of the services require that a script is running on the server so that the information can be analyzed. A Linux server has to run the net-snmp suite for example for It Service View to receive the data.

IT Service View is a sophisticated server monitoring software for IT professionals and small businesses who want to monitor their websites and servers.

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