Technical Specifications

Main features

• Real-time event flagging
• Data correlation and aggregation into intelligent availability indicators
• User-defined, automated reactions
• Real-time availability monitoring of service availability
• Top-down view of service availability, from a comprehensive view down to a server-level view
• Incident and event reporting over time

Availability modelling of an application distributed across a cluster of 3 servers

Technical specifications

• Remote web interface
• permission-based user access
• Centralized database
• Simple integration within a CMDB
• Powerful, discrete data collection architecture
• Agent based and/or agentless
• Monitoring of Log files

Systems supported

• SP Monitor runs on all Windows platforms (2000, XP, 2003)
• Database server: MySQL, SQL Server
• Web environments: Apache, MS IIS and support for PHP

Monitoring mechanisms

• Built-in and custom device monitoring (IP, POP, SMTP, etc.)
• SNMP trap receiver
• SP Analyst agent event receiver (OS, virtualized system, databases and application)
• Sysload Log Monitor receiver
• Custom event receiver (API)