These monitors provide everything necessary for basic system monitoring and system management including coverage for operating system and hardware metrics.
CPU Utilization Monitor - Report the percentage of CPU currently in use to ensure that you know if the CPU is being overloaded.
Database Monitor - Verify database queries.
Directory Monitor - Monitor file count and size within a directory.
Disk Space Monitor - Report the percentage of disk space currently in use so that you can act before you run out of disk space.
File Monitor - Monitor file system parameters such as the size, age, and content of a file, and receive notification of any changes.
Log File Monitor - Generate warnings and errors based upon data in an application's log file. For example, many applications write error messages to a log file. This monitor can scan those log files, looking for error messages and generating alerts when it finds them.
Memory Monitor - Measure virtual memory usage and receive proactive notification of problems.
NT Event Log Monitor - Watch one of the Windows NT Event Logs (System, Application, or Security) and trigger alerts when entries are added.
NT Performance Counter Monitor - Retrieve the value of any Windows NT Performance Counter and send alert if this value is out of a specified range.
Service Monitor - Verify that specified processes are running, including Web, Mail, FTP, News, Gopher, Telnet, and DNS.
Application Monitors:
The following monitors provide monitoring for all types of applications throughout a distributed enterprise including web servers, application servers, middleware, ERP and CRM applications.
Apache Web Server - Monitor Apache server statistics such as bytes per second, requests per second, and CPU load.
Citrix MetaFrame - Monitor the Citrix Metaframe server by measuring counters such as Session Average, Data Bandwidth and Session Compression.
MacroMedia ColdFusion Server - Monitor ColdFusion statistics such as page hits per second, Queued Requests, or Avg Req Time.
MAPI - Test Microsoft Exchange server by sending a message via MAPI.
Microsoft Applications - Monitor performance for most Microsoft applications including:
Active Directory
ASP
Exchange
IIS
SQL
.Net
Windows Media Player and Server
Web Monitoring - Web Server / URL Monitors:
These monitors are used specifically for monitoring web site performance or web related processes including web services.
Link Check Monitor - Monitor all internal and external Web site links for link integrity.
URL Monitor - Verify availability and access time for specified URLs to ensure Web pages are available within an acceptable time frame. On Windows NT, Site-Scope takes advantage of the platform's integrated support to monitor secure HTTPS URLs in addition to HTTP URLs.
URL Content Monitor - Retrieve a selected URL, checking for multiple strings of text within the page.
URL List Monitor - Monitor an entire list of URLs, rather than defining several separate URL monitors.
URL Sequence Monitor - Verify a session that includes multiple pages. An example of this would be entering an account name via a Web form and checking an account status for the page that is returned.
Web Server Monitor - Report data recorded by your Microsoft IIS Web server log such as hits, bytes, errors, hits per minutes and bytes per minute.
Network Service Monitors:
The following monitors are used for monitoring network services and network related processes/operations.
DNS Monitor - Verify that the Domain Name Server (DNS) is accepting requests. Verify that the address for a specific domain name can be found.
FTP Monitor - Verify that a file can be retrieved from a file transfer protocol (FTP) server.
Mail Monitor - Verify that the mail server is accepting requests, and that messages can be sent and retrieved.
Ping Monitor - Verify that specified hosts are available via the network to ensure continuous availability of critical connections.
Port Monitor - Determine whether a service on a port can be connected to.
