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A Nanny for your Servers

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PCQ Bureau
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How fast do you get notified when your network or server breaks down? With ServerNanny, you'll get notified immediately

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Direct Hit!
Applies to:

Network administrators
USP:

Monitor a server and get notified as soon as it goes down
Primary Link:



http://servernanny.com/ 

Google keywords:

Server monitoring
On PCQXtreme DVD: Utilities

Network administrators are constantly under pressure to

keep the network up all the time and they need to be notified immediately when a

server or network device goes down. Server Nanny can notify them within minutes

of a server breakdown, thus, helping reduce downtime. It's a network- and

server-monitoring software, which has various ways of alerting the concerned

person when a fault occurs. It can notify by sending an e-mail, SMS, by playing

a sound, or by running a custom script and many other methods. It can also be

configured to perform some actions like Starting/stopping/restarting services,

restarting and shutting down servers, and running custom executables in case of

a problem.

Server Nanny can monitor servers for disk space, CPU usage,

physical memory, processes, etc. Both Linux and Microsoft servers can be

monitored.

Open Server Nanny and under the Device tab, right click on Group and then click on 'Add New Device'. You will get this window. Here, type the device name as Server To add monitor, right click on the Server, go to Add Monitor>General> and click on Ping. In the pop-up, click on the Settings tab and provide the IP address of the Server


Click on 'Notifications' and then go to Manage Notification>Add Group. Here give the Group name as

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Click on Notification, then on Add and select e-mail. You will get a pop-up, click on Settings and give your e-mail


Right click on Server, select Device Properties. Click on Schedule to fix when you don't want Server Nanny to run. The 'Override Global Settings' configures the timings You can also monitor web servers remotely for various parameters as shown. To get this screen, from Step 5, right click on Server and Add Monitor for HTTP.


To restart your web server, choose the 'Actions' tab from the previous screen and follow instructions as shown. When a fault occurs, a notification will be sent to you through e-mail as shown in this screenshot


Click on 'Back up Configuration' and then browse to where you want to save the settings file, click on Save Click on Reports>Generate reports from previous screen, and specify the time frame for which you want them.

Swapnil Arora

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