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>Is there a way in Netview (or related parts of the product suite) to
>remotely monitor the availability of standardservices like SMTP, POP3 etc.
>on a particular server without a local agent?
SystemEDGE, an SNMP systems and application management agent from
Empire Technologies, does this.
live example:
http://www.empiretech.com/stats/index.html
The example shows SystemEDGE being used to autonomously monitor
service response time and application availability for services
such as DNS, Web Service, FTP, NNTP, POP, and SMTP.
SystemEDGE is actually doing a null transaction to the remote
server so you see the actual response that an end-user would.
The information is available as a MIB variable that you can poll
from your management station, or better yet, use the agent's
threshold monitoring to monitor the response time and send up
a trap if it exceeds some threshold.
As a pure-SNMP agent, SystemEDGE interoperates with any SNMP-complient
management station like NetView. TAVVE provides NetView "snap-in"
reports for SystemEDGE.
If you want to give SystemEDGE a whirl, you can get a free eval
by filling out the evaluation request form on the web page:
http://www.empiretech.com
- cheryl
>
>Thanks in advance
>Holger Heimann
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