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Sentry-go®
3Ds (UK) Limited
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Monitoring the Network |
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Monitoring network access to servers, PCs & devices connected to
it is often of key importance to organisations. Equally, knowing
when a device is "down", or not contactable across the network is something you
usually want to be told ASAP.
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Whether you manage a handful of servers on a small network in the same building, or 100s spread
across multiple sites, knowing they're working, responding and available over
the network is a key function for any System Administrators, network or support
personnel.
Traditionally, checks such as these are performed manually - more
often than not, after one or more users have reported an error to the helpdesk,
but by then mission critical systems could be affected as could your business. |
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For organisation's who support "public desktops" - e.g. desktops used by external customers
such as libraries,
being alerted to connectivity faults here may also be of prime importance.
With Sentry-go, monitoring network access & connectivity is easy and
automatic. By attempting to
establish a connection (PING) to one, some or all servers, PCs or TCP/IP devices
the monitor can quickly detect & highlight those devices that are not available.
You can,
for example ...
- Monitor TCP/IP connectivity to named devices using automated PING
- Check connectivity IP-addresses
- Automatically scan for servers and/or PCs on the network & check connectivity
to them
- Map out services and/or PCs that you don't wish to check (e.g. development
servers)
- Notify System Administrator(s), network operations etc. of errors or failures
Examples where network monitoring via TCP/IP would be of benefit include ...
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- Your domain servers
- Your network PCs - e.g. in a public network such as an exhibition
- Connectivity to other "PINGable" device
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