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Re: Newby question: Remote application Monitoringy

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Subject: Re: Newby question: Remote application Monitoringy
From: Jeff Fitzwater <jfitz@PRINCETON.EDU>
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 09:45:03 -0500
Organization: Princeton University
Reply-to: Discussion of IBM NetView and POLYCENTER Manager on NetView <NV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU>
Sender: Discussion of IBM NetView and POLYCENTER Manager on NetView <NV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU>
If you are using 5.1 look at "nvsniffer" it polls tcp ports per host as
you define.  There is only a man page for it.  Not well documented yet
but it does some good stuff.

Cheryl Krupczak wrote:
>
> >
> >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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