HostMonitor

Product Details

HostMonitor is an award winning system management tool that continuously monitors your servers' availability and performance.

In the event of network errors, HostMonitor will alert the network administrator or take one of a total 25 pre-defined actions (eg. shutting down a server, starting a service) before problems get seriously out of hand, thus protecting your company's data and reducing the risk of costly network failures.

Why Should I Buy HostMonitor

HostMonitor is an extremely cost-effective reliable tool that will help you are monitor your servers and protect your organisation’s data and your users’ time. Its action options outlined below allow you huge flexibility to avoid problems escalating before you reach the computer room.

Action Options

HostMonitor's action options are its real strength. Boasting a total of 25 actions, HostMonitor can provide a visual or sound warning, send an email, pager or SMS message, execute an external program, remotely reboot, stop or start a service (on Windows NT/2000/XP) or generate test result log files and reports. It is also possible to set up hierarchies of actions and to schedule different sets for different time periods.

HostMonitor and Sensatronics Environmental Monitors

HostMonitor easily integrates with the Sensatronics range of environmental and temperature monitors to remotely monitor the server/data room environment.

Pricing and Licence Options

HostMonitor is available in a variety of licence options, please view the table below for a summary.

Tools, Services	Lite	Standard	Professional	Enterprise
# test items	50	200	600	20,000,000
HML Manager	-	Included	Included	Included
Log Analyser	-	-	Included	Included
IP-Tools	-	-	Included	Included
Remote Monitoring Agents	-	-	-	Included
RMA Manager	-	-	-	Included
Telnet Service/Web Service	-	-	-	Included
Free Update Terms	6 Months	6 Months	12 Months	12 Months
Price	£65.00	£95.00	£165.00	£225.00

KW-Soft HostMonitor Specification

HostMonitor (core of the package) has following system requirements

HostMonitor Core Technical Specification

Minimum system requirements

• Windows 98, ME, NT 4.0 (SP3), Windows 2000, Windows XP Professional, or Windows Server 2003
• Internet Explorer 4.0 or higher
• Free disk space: from 6 Mb (if you install HostMonitor only) to 12Mb (for all components)
• Minimum screen resolution: 800 x 600

Recommended

• Windows 2000
• Internet Explorer 5+
• Screen resolution: 1024 x 768 or higher

Remote Monitoring Agents

Remote Monitoring Agents (RMA) have different system requirements as they are designed for various platforms. You may check system requirements in the appropriate sections.

RMA for Windows

Minimum system requirements

• Windows 95 (OSR2), 98, ME, NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP Professional or Windows Server 2003
• TCP/IP connection (LAN or Dial-up)
• 1.1 Mb of free disk space

Recommended

• Windows 2000
• 2 Mb of free disk space

RMA for Linux

Required Libs	Tested on	Reported to Work on	Should Work on
libstdc++ (5) libm.so (6) libgcc_s (1) libpthread (0) libc (6) ld-linux (2)	Mandrake 8.2 & 9.2 Red Hat Linux 9	No reports to date	Slackware Linux 7.1+ Mandrake Linux 7.1+ Red Hat Linux 6.2+ SuSE Linux 6.4+ Debian Linux 2.2+

RMA for FreeBSD

Required Libs	Tested on	Reported to Work on	Should Work on
libstdc++ (3) limb (2) libc_r (4)	FreeBSD 4.5	No reports to date	OpenBSD NetBSD

RMA for Solaris

Required Libs	Tested on	Reported to Work on	Should Work on
libsocket.so libnsl.so libpthread.so libm.so libc.so libdl.so libmp.so libthread.so	Solaris 9 (SunOS 5.9)	No reports to date	Solaris 8 (SunOS 2.8)

RMA for Solaris (Intel) package contains 2 binary modules (you may use any of these 2 modules):

• rma module linked (static) with libstdc++ and libgcc
• rma_s module uses run-time linking with libstdc++ and libgcc libraries. It means that you need 2 additional libraries: libgcc and libstdc++ that are available at sunfreeware site. Since these files constitute a part of the gcc package, you may not need to install it if you already have gcc 3.3 installed.

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