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ServersCheck
Type of Program: Service Based/Network Monitor
Supported Platforms: Windows 2000/NT/XP - Linux/Unix/FreeBSD
Company Name: ServersCheck (a Fides Unit)
Version: Professional 3.5.2 (Standard and Enterprise also available)
Price: $199.00 (USD)
Installed Size: 7.5MB
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When it's up to you as an Administrator you want to make certain
that all of your systems are "Up" rather than being down. Right? If any part of
the system goes down you need to know now rather than later, or having the boss
come to you, right? Now wouldn't it also be nice if you could monitor your
systems without really having to keep an ever-constant watch on them? Wouldn't
it be nice to be able to setup such a system quick, easy and painless? Now you
can!
ServersCheck is a service-based application that runs on Windows NT, 2000, 2003
Server or XP Professional as well on Linux, Unix or FreeBSD and is one that
constantly monitors through a browser accessible application called the
Configuration Server. The great part about ServersCheck is the fact that the
Configuration Server is actually a stand alone Web Server that allows you to
administrate your ServersCheck installation. This means you do not need to have
a Web Server installed on your computer! You can access the server through
either Netscape or the Microsoft Internet Explorer browser.
ServersCheck gives you the capability to monitor your system complete with
reports and alerts which of course not only makes you look good in what you do
but also informs you (automatically updated to your choosing) about how well
your systems are operating, or which ones are down. Here's a list of many of the
areas you can monitor:
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Quite an impressive list! And the best part of this is that once
you have it setup in a few short steps it will then keep an ever-watchful eye on
your systems and produce for you real-time reports on the status on each check
you set up. Each report gives you hyperlinks of each individual check and is
produced in HTML format which consists of everything you need to see at a glance
of what's going on (or not going on) with your system! Complete with graphical
stats by the day, week, month or year! This is great to look at for a quick and
easy way to view your system and any checks you currently have setup.
What I found nice about ServersCheck was the added feature to attach and setup
Teams to any check you want. This way if you have more than one person
monitoring your system you can setup Teams to monitor certain systems and have
that Team alerted to react. Each Team can be setup differently to alert rules
based to any different person(s). Speaking of alerts, they can be created in
several ways. Set it up to alert any Team, have it ICQ a message to yourself, or
how about having it send you an email (great if you happened to be away with
your laptop), or even have it send a message to your Pager or Cell phone (paging
available only in the US), or through a gateway SMS (SMS is only available in
the Pro Version), and last but not least of course you can have it give yourself
an audible alert and/or send yourself or a Team a Network Message!
No doubt about it, ServersCheck is an application you should try! Especially if
your job requires you to be informed about any downtimes or anything else that
may, or could go wrong you're your management system(s). Even with the free
Shareware Version you can set it up to monitor five system checks to test it out
on your system! With the Shareware Version you only have access to the system
checks via the Localhost but with the Pro Version you can access it from any
location! So go "check" it out today and see just how well it performs in your
business. After you have looked at other monitoring software I really feel that
you will choose ServersCheck. Not only because it gives you a price advantage
but also because of its many monitoring features as well as the great support
(just to name a few). ServersCheck deserves to be your cost-effective Management
Monitoring solution therefore I can only give it high marks all the way around,
as I assume you would to.
Performance 
User Friendly
Cost
Ease of Installation
Support
Reviewed by Robert Hall
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