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Features and Benefits
- Affordable alternative to high-cost commercial software
Significantly lowers your total cost of ownership; less than most commercial
vendors.
- Easy maintenance and support
Same functionality as other
commercial software but with a lot less complexity.
- Integrates views for complete IT visibility and control
Real time
status, Events, Historic Trend views that will proactively alert you to any
issues and then guide you to conclusions on source of issues.
- Real time Status Viewer. The interface of GroundWork Monitor Professional
provides a scalable, flexible view of monitoring status. A tree-view
menu of monitored hosts expands and contracts to view detailed host status
quickly. Filter and Trouble Views let you focus only on what is of interest to you.
- Integrated Console. Views provide you with a time perspective
on events. Color-coded threshold breaches and related message details let you
correlate event details with the real time status screens to arrive at likely
causes of issues.
- Insight Reports. Let you analyze historic trends for
availability, performance, outages, events, alerts and notifications so that
you can proactively manage IT availability and performance across time.
- Performance Trend Reports. Allow you to create groups of
hosts or services that you want to see in performance reports. Any combination
of performance graphs can be customized and saved as reports for repeated
viewing with constantly updated data.
- Flexible and extensible monitoring to adapt to your specific needs
In one solution, GroundWork offers the widest availability of methods in the
industry. Techniques include Active and Passive monitoring, agent or
agent-less methods, combinations of synthetic polling and log file monitoring
via SNMP traps.
- Complete IT architecture/system visibility and monitoring
By
integrating Nagios 2.0 as one of its best-of-breed open Source tools, GroundWork
Monitor Professional gives the widest native coverage of systems,
devices, infrastructure elements and environments available. You can monitor
both UNIX and Windows environments, Network devices and different protocols.
A
growing GroundWork-developed Profile library of templates encapsulates best
practices, key metrics, thresholds and key configuration data enabling rapid
set-up and monitoring of various system devices and application servers for specific IT
environments.
- Sophisticated Alerts and Notifications
GroundWork Monitor
Professional provides a sophisticated and comprehensive alarming and notification mechanism
with escalation rules to alert you of breached thresholds and potential
problems. GroundWork Monitor Professional provides automatic event/alarm
pre-processing to reduce the incidence of derived, spurious, and false alarms
while still ensuring that actual outages are reliably reported.
- Policy-based Alarm Event Handling
In addition to detecting problems with hosts and their important
services, GroundWork Monitor Professional allows system administrators to specify what
should be done as a result of an alarm event through proactive event handling. Event triggers can launch scripts to fix simple problems before anyone is notified by
restarting servers, or clearing disk space, etc.
- Easily configurable for quick deployment
GroundWork Monitor
Professional enables you to easily and rapidly setup and maintain your
IT infrastructure monitoring system by allowing you to configure it via a Web-based interface rather
than having to manually edit actual configuration files.
Performance Trend Reporting
Tactical Overview Summaries
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GROUNDWORK MONITOR PROFESSIONAL DELIVERS
- Improved IT availability and performance
- Fast problem resolution
- More productive IT staff with less firefighting
- Improved capacity planning
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