Automatic Monitoring Of The Network Computers Hardware And Software

By Author: Vadim Malyarchuk
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If you are employed as a system administrator or owning and running any kind of small company by yourself, one day you see that your business is growing. The more employees are working in it, the more are needed. The more computers are needed, the bigger your local network became, and the more servers, programs and utilities are started every day. It is quite a hard task to take care of their health. Let's study a couple of examples and see what kind of difficulties you can collide.

Nobody usually cares about it, but it is pretty critical task to check the amount of available storage space on your disk, because some services might fail due to an unability to store its data. And you can, accidentally, lose this data. In addition, low disk space might make it impossible for your paging file to increase its size to support virtual memory.

Here is the other scenario. Sometimes utilities can use CPU very strong. For example, when too many instances are connected to one service, or when too many complex calculation jobs are processing simultaneously. If they do so for a long interval of time, CPU can get overheated ...
... and badly injured, and the system will not function normally.

In both cases it is a nice idea to learn about the potential issue before it will actually arise. As the system administrator, it is your work to keep an eye on all parts. The status of computer usage and resources can change essentially over time. Servers may stop working. Hard drive systems can run out of space. Utilities may throw exceptions, which in turn can raise the system troubles. When you own one computer, then surely you will be able to handle this by yourself. If you need several computers, it becomes the real problem. Thankfully, you do not need to handle it manually, you just need a network monitoring software that can do the hard work for you.

ProtoMon is a robust network and server monitoring software that will automatically monitor the system parameters of the unlimited number of the remote computers. You just need to install a small and fast ProtoMonAgent system service on every computer you need to monitor. This service uses very small amount of memory and CPU resources. It can monitor almost every aspect of the system including processor and memory usage (global and per process), disk space, available system services and processes, registry keys, etc.

ProtoMon periodically queries the agents' statuses. In a one query it can monitor any number of the remote computer parameters. You can type the success criteria - a boolean formula containing one or more inequations with macroes connected together by the logical operators (and, or). Each macros gets one system parameter: maximum CPU usage, free RAM size, process status, etc. If the success criteria are not met, the program will notify you immediately by the various kinds of alerts. It can show a pop-up notification dialog, play a sound, execute any application, or send a notification message to the system administrator. Well, it cannot make you a coffee. So while you are making a coffee, let ProtoMon to monitor your computers.