Measuring, Monitoring and Alerting
Overview of Features
netSENTINEL offers a variety of strategic customizable features to choose from, allowing you to monitor EXACTLY what is important to your business:
- ICMP Up/Down Response
- Network Services
- Firewall
- VoIP
- Robotics/Program Logic Controls
- UPS
- VPN
- Power Supply, Fan, Temperature
netSENTINEL delivers customizable alerting on all monitored metrics. Alerting features include:
- Current and Historical Alerts
- Graphic Monitor Alerts
- Automated Alert Messaging
- Individual/Group Assignment
- Trouble Ticket Integration
Extensive Device GraphicsPort Up/Down, Bandwidth, SpeedLAN & WAN Bandwidth UtilizationServer/Workstation MonitoringTCP Socket Up/Down Response
The Power of netSENTINEL's Monitoring Abilities
netSENTINEL is a powerful service that provides the tools and processes to monitor, measure and manage the broadest range of IP devices. netSENTINEL can monitor any SNMP or IP enabled device using industry standard protocols. The following is a list of the types of devices netSENTINEL monitors and measures:
- Servers
- VoIP Systems
- Workstations
- Laptops
- Switches - Core, Edge
- Robotics
- SAN's
- Programmable logic controllers
- Firewalls
- Wireless devices, AP's, Bridges
- Routers
- WAN Circuits
- UPS
- VPN's
- Printers
- Temperature
netSENTINEL provides a flexible approach to measuring your entire infrastructure. Out of the box, netSENTINEL provides standard monitoring templates for most devices with the ability to expand or change the templates for any device, at any time. While the list of available metrics is exhaustive, typical monitoring metrics include:
- Bandwidth-Speed/ Utilization
- Disk-Storage /Size/Usage/Threshold
- Bandwidth-Traffic/Utilization
- Services-Running/Stopped
- Port-Status/Traffic/Performance
- Software-Applications Installed
- Module-Status/Traffic/Performance
- Hot-Fixes/Patches Installed
- Device-Status/Traffic/Performance
- Memory-Usage/Processes Executed - Fan-Status
- Link-Status/Performance - Power-Supply Status
- Interface-Status/Traffic/Performance
- Temperature/Threshold
- CPU-Capacity/Load/Threshold
The netSENTINEL polling agent remotely polls your entire network every 60 seconds, using industry standard protocols (SNMP, ICMP, TCP and WMI) to monitor and measure your infrastructure. The polling agent collects thousands of data points throughout your infrastructure for availability, status, performance and utilization metrics. Each metric is compared for out of band conditions and stored in the database for tracking and reporting. Out of band conditions are immediately recorded, alerted and communicated through a variety of user defined methods providing the ability to quickly act upon issues before they become problems for your customers. Alerts contain device, time and location information along with a summary of the specific issue and can be immediately communicated by e-mail, pager, SMS, cell, PDA, etc. Alert information can be managed and assigned to individuals, groups, support providers or third party systems.
Alert Screen
netSENTINEL monitors your entire infrastructure without requiring agents on your servers or devices. In addition, netSENTINEL can provide custom monitoring processes for a range of specialized customer requirements.

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Extensive Device Graphics
- Graphic On-line Infrastructure Documentation
- Graphic View by Location or Business Process
- Real-time View of Network Devices
- User Defined Device Grouping
Port Up/Down, Bandwidth, Speed
- Current and Historical
- Device Level
- Blade Level
- Port Level
LAN & WAN Bandwidth Utilization
- Link Availability
- Link Performance
- Link Capacity
Server/Workstation Monitoring
- CPU Capacity, Utilization
- Disk Capacity, Utilization, Predictive Failure (WMI)
- NIC's
- RAM
- Virtual Memory
- Paging File
- Services - Running/Stopped
- Applications - In Process/Memory Usage
TCP Socket - Up/Down, Response Time
- Custom Event Log Monitors Available TCP Socket Up/Down - Response
- TCP Port Availability and Performance
ICMP Up/Down - Response
- PING Availability and Performance
Network Services
- Services Started/Stopped
- DNS, FTP, HTTP, LDAP, NNTP
- POP3, SMTP, IMAP
- Custom Service Performance Monitors Available
Firewall
- Availability
- Redundant Firewall Failure
VoIP
- PBX Availability
- IP/SNMP Performance Metrics
Robotics/Program Logic Controls
- Availability
- IP/SNMP Performance Metrics
- SNMP Performance/Health Metrics UPS
VPN
- Availability
- Response
- Capacity/Utilization
Power Supply, Fan, Temperature
- SNMP Results and Performance Metrics
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Infrastructure Map

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Aggregated Device Port Traffic - All Ports

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Average Switch Port Speed - All Ports

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Port Traffic Drill-Down

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Uptime Metric Availability

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