GFI Network Server Monitor™ - Features

No agent software needs to be installed on machines you wish to monitor. The Network Monitor Engine is multi-threaded and can run up to 40 checks at a time. Our software architecture allows for high reliability and scalability to monitor both large and small networks.

You can monitor CPU usage, printer availability, file existence, process running, folder size, file size, users and groups membership, disk partition check and disk space. Administrators can create any other check by creating an SSH script.

• HTTP function, checks availability of HTTP and HTTPS sites; passes credentials if required
• Website content checking, checks website content by specifying a text pattern
• FTP function, checks availability of an FTP server/site
• ICMP ping function, checks a remote host for availability
• IMAP server function, checks that the IMAP service is functioning by logging into the service and checking the count of the emails contained in a specific folder on the IMAP server
• DNS server function, checks DNS server by reading an 'A' record and verifying the result
• SMTP server function, checks mail server by establishing a connection and handshaking to verify SMTP protocol is working correctly
• POP3 server function, checks POP3 servers by establishing a connection and handshaking
• NNTP news server function, checks connection and does a handshake
• SNMP function, monitors specific variables on remote machines or devices via the SNMP GET message
• TCP port function, checks if a port is responding and checks its response
• NTP timeserver function, monitors status of timeservers
• Email route function, checks the health of email services by actually sending test emails and verifying their delivery at destination. This check is also useful for verifying performance of your mailing systems
• Daemon function, SSH-based check that verifies if particular daemons are running on target Linux/Unix computer/s.

SQL Server is more appropriate for users with higher monitoring level requirements and those who need to centralize the monitoring results of multiple GFI Network Server Monitor installations in one place. For example, for backups, remote accessing and report generation by third party tools such as Crystal Reports or MS Reporting Services.

Although GFI Network Server Monitor includes an extensive set of default monitoring functions, you can build your own custom checks by writing a VBScript (Windows) or an SSH shell script (Linux). From VBScript, you can use both WMI and ADSI. WMI is an interface to a broad range of hardware/software/OS-related properties of a computer, allowing you to perform almost any check. Using ADSI, you can interface to Active Directory.