Reduce Downtime with up.time

up.time is a browser based network device monitoring tool, which constantly monitors servers for their availability and resources, thereby helping you reduce downtime

Wednesday, October 03, 2007

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Agreed that downtime cannot be avoided, but it can be reduced by monitoring network devices regularly. There are several tools and procedures, which can be used for monitoring and up.time is one such server/client monitoring solution supporting both agent and agentless monitoring.

It is easy to use and implement, and can monitor network devices through SNMP (Simple network management protocol). It has support for Windows 2000/2003, AIX, Linux, Solaris, AIX and FreeBSD 5.x for server monitoring, while for workstations, it has support for Windows XP, Linux and Solaris. This tool can monitor Application Servers, Host Services, Windows, Databases and Network Services. For Application Server monitoring it has default monitors for Exchange Server such as SMTP local queue length, SMTP bytes sent/received per second, current SMTP inbound and outbound connections.

Likewise, for database monitoring the tool has support for MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server and Sybase. It can monitor databases for various parameters such as Total Transactions persec, Table Space usage, user connections etc. up.time also supports SNMP monitoring and comes with SNMP MIB Browser and has default monitors for IIS, WebLogic, WebSphere and ESX v3.

Whenever a failure occurs, up.time immediately sends an alert so you can handle the problem effectively and resolve it instantly. The alert could be in the form of an e-mail, SMS, a Windows pop-up message or you can even page it. The automatic alert escalation system of this utility takes care of an alert when not addressed within a particular instant of time. Moreover, you get the liberty to create custom monitors for running custom scripts and generating specific alerts. In addition, this utility also provides User Access Control, which lets you create users and assign specific roles as well as access rights to them.

In Global scan, you can see real time view of all machines being monitored with their trends over the past 24 hours

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