Mobile PC Monitor: A sys admin's best friend

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Article from ADMIN 08/2012

By Ken Hess

Monitoring your internal server environment just became easier with MMSOFT Design's Mobile PC Monitor software.

Monitoring your servers requires both vigilance and a lot of time. You have to check dashboards, read reports, and drill down to see what's wrong with a system. These delays can mean the difference between meeting or missing a Service Level Agreement (SLA) between you and your client. And, there's nothing more embarrassing than confessing to a client that you didn't know their service went down. You don't want the client to take the place of a monitoring application. Instead, you should take an active approach to monitoring with MMSOFT Design's (MMSOFT) Mobile PC Monitor [1].

The MMSOFT solution consists of an agent, a client, and a dashboard. It sounds like a standard monitoring delivery scenario, and it is, but with one catch: It's mobile. Mobile means you can monitor your systems from a phone, a tablet computer, a laptop (notebook, ultrabook, netbook), the PC Monitor application, or a web page. As long as you have access to any type of computer or smartphone, you can stay in touch with what's happening with your Windows and Linux systems as it happens.

Mobile PC Monitor is a real-time monitoring solution for 32- and 64-bit Windows and Linux operating systems. Most of the functions work on both Windows and Linux systems. Table 1 lists a subset of the events that you can monitor on your systems and receive related status notifications.

Table 1

Monitored Events

Log on/log off

System start/restart/shutdown/suspended/resumed

Low battery state

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