ActiveXperts Network Monitor monitors all aspects of your LAN and WAN servers, workstations and devices. For years, customers have relied on the reliability of this Network Monitor tool. The product runs as a service on the Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 platform, and supports Windows, UNIX, LINUX and Novell platforms.
When it detects a failure, it sends alerts via network message, e-mail, pager, or SMS message (support for TAPI, Unicode, TAP, UCP and FBus). The software takes a corrective action automatically.

It can monitor Microsoft SQL Server via ADO and Oracle via SQL*NET. Oracle servers can be monitored by a TNS ping check and by a logon/logoff. Other databases such as Access, FoxPro, Paradox, SyBase, Informix, IBM DB2 and many more can be monitored via ADO or ODBC. It monitors the status of your Exchange Servers by monitoring critical Exchange services and performance counters (Information Store, mailboxes, SMTP service, etc).

The product has the following built-in checks: AD, ADSI, CPU Usage, databases, directory sizes, disk healthy, DNS, disk drive, disk space, event log incl. content checking), MS Exchange, file existence (incl. content checking), FTP site, HTTP(s) (incl. content checking), ICMP/Ping, IMAP4, MS SQL Database, Novell NDS, NTDS (NT4 compatible DS), NTP, POP3 mail server, printer, process, service, SMTP mail server, SNMP, TCP port (incl. handshaking), temperature (requires a Sensatronics IT thermometer), UDP, UNIX shell script (RSH), users & groups, VBScript (custom scripts) and WMI.
Write custom scripts using VBScript or RSH.

ActiveXperts Network Monitor has advanced ODBC and ADO/SQL logging and reporting capabilities.
Use XML and XSL based Views (web interface) to view results from any location.
The XML based Reports can be customized easily by editing the XSL stylesheet templates.

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