ipMonitor watches over your important network resources to ensure availability, responsiveness and performance quality. It does this by regularly monitoring the health of applications, databases, infrastructure equipment and critical services such as your web, commerce and mail servers.

In the event that quality of service degrades, thresholds are exceeded, a predefined content pattern has been detected or failures occur, ipMonitor immediately Alerts the right people in your organization. In addition recovery options can automatically be initiated to correct problems and recover service whenever possible.

Monitor
Proactively monitor availability and performance quality for your applications, infrastructure equipment, databases, and web, ecommerce and mail servers.

Alert
You can avoid costly downtime by immediately alerting the right people when quality of service degrades, thresholds are exceeded, a content pattern is detected or failures occur.

Recover
Automatically recover your failed applications, critical services and network equipment.

Report
Gain real-time visibility into the performance of your applications and infrastructure equipment. Identify historical trends, map problems and report operational efficiency.

Security
Proven technologies such as SSL create a secure network-monitoring model that minimizes risk to your organization.

Productivity Tools
Many productivity tools and features are included to save you time, effort and money.

Technology
Review system requirements, server capabilities and web based interface features.

ipMonitor New Secure HTTP Server

• Supports secure client/server communication using the SSL protocol over HTTP. Supported acquisition methods are, Self-Signed Certificates, certificates issued by trusted certificate providers such as FreeSSL™, InstantSSL™ or VeriSign®, and Microsoft® Windows® Certificate Services.
• Digest Access Authentication is used to avoid sending password information in cleartext in the event SSL is not implemented.
• User access to ipMonitor may be granted or revoked based on the client IP address or a range of IP addresses. If access is revoked, ipMonitor will deny access to any users coming from those IP addresses. If access is allowed, ipMonitor will only communicate with those IP addresses included in its IP Access Filters list.
• Non-administrator User accounts support detailed per-user access control to ipMonitor features. Administrators have access to all ipMonitor features.

New Credentials Manager

• Individual Monitors, Alerts and features that require access to Windows® file system objects or Services via the network may be controlled to run under a specific network account. This allows the ipMonitor Service to run under the lowest permission context possible, and use accounts with elevated permissions only when required.
• Individual Credentials can be configured to apply various usage restrictions that further control Credential usage, for example Credentials may be used over SSL, or with Digest Authentication schemes, etc.
• Internally ipMonitor uses RSA 512/1024 bit encryption to store all sensitive NT account and credentials data.

New Login Techniques for Monitors

• When possible Monitors will not authenticate using clear text credential exchange. Digest Authentication may be used with HTTP Monitors to prevent the exchange of credentials in clear text.
• NTLM Authentication may be used for secure IMAP4, POP3 and HTTP communication, eliminating the exchange of credentials in clear text.
  
  

New Productivity-enhanced Web Interface for ipMonitor

• New improved user interface makes ipMonitor 7 a much faster and productive network monitoring solution.
• Set page length to view large Monitor lists across multiple pages. Click the column header to sort pages by Monitor name, state or type. Use the Filter option to locate and manage individual Monitors or Groups of Monitors.
• Tags can be used with Monitors, Groups, Alerts, Profiles, Accounts, Credentials, Report Generators and Maintenance Schedules to attach notes, links or instructions for use by other administrators or for use by the Filter option.
• Inline help located throughout the interface can be expanded to provide detailed information wherever you need it and rolled back up when you no longer need it.
• New "Server Status" window offers the option to contact ipMonitor regarding fixes, updates and upgrades. As well Tips can be downloaded.
  
  

New Delayed Load Sequence & I'm Alive Messages for ipMonitor
Load sequence for Monitors can be controlled in order to reduce the impact on system resources or false failures at the time when the ipMonitor Service is started. Administrators can be alerted on the startup and shutdown of the ipMonitor Service. Administrators can be alerted on specified intervals to confirm that the ipMonitor Service is running.

New SNMP Tools for ipMonitor

• ipMonitor now includes an SNMP database containing popular MIBs. The MIB tree can be browsed and the SNMP database can be searched.
• SNMP Monitors and Alerts accept named object identifiers. Object Identifiers can be converted between named and full numerical format.
  
  

New Information Alerts with ipMonitor
New Information Alerts provide the File Watching, Event Log and SNMP Trap Monitors the ability to perform searches on data sources that produce variable results; capture and format the data and then "push" it into the various Alert Types that support this option.

ipMonitor New Alerting Features

• ipMonitor supports UCP/SMS text messaging. The SMS Text Pager Alert can use UCP (Universal Computer Protocol) to send an alert to an alphanumeric pager or digital phone with SMS support.
• Alert configuration parameters can be tested for correctness at the time when the Alert is configured (before going live). Built in paging diagnostics and display are provided.
  
  

ipMonitor New SOAP Interface
ipMonitor now includes a SOAP interface that may be accessed programmatically. Using SOAP, you can Add, Edit, Delete, and View configuration elements and their associated object lists from applications developed for .NET, J2EE, PERL, C++ and VB.

ipMonitor New XML Support

• New Popup window displays XML schema for Monitors, Groups, Profiles and Alerts.
• Within its administration interface ipMonitor supports the ability to import and export configuration parameters to XML for Monitors, Groups and their relationship with Monitors, Profiles & Alerts, Maintenance Schedules and Reports.
  
  

ipMonitor New Network Scan

• The Network Scan feature locates applications, services and devices for part or the entire network that can be monitored by ipMonitor.
• Configurable discovery methods are, DNS, ICMP/PING, SNMP, and TCP & UDP Port Scanning.
• Results are grouped by IP address or domain name. Monitor types are suggested based on the resources that are discovered.
  
  

ipMonitor New Whiteboard
ipMonitor includes a convenient whiteboard located on the Welcome page. The whiteboard offers an ideal location to post messages to all ipMonitor users.

ipMonitor New RegEx Wizard
ipMonitor includes a RegEx Wizard to simplify the creation of Regular Expressions. Regular Expressions may be used with the Event Log, QA SNMP and File Watching Monitor types to analyze and capture data matching different Search Scenarios, then format the data and "push" it into the various Alert Types that support Information Alerts.

ipMonitor New Maintenance Scheduling

• New Maintenance scheduling features permits administrators to temporarily disable monitoring of certain resources based on rules similar to Microsoft® Outlook®.
• ipMonitor can perform internal routine actions or pause monitoring while external actions are carried out.
  
  

Diagnostic Tools ipMonitor

• Alert configuration parameters can be fully tested against Monitors prior to going live. New paging diagnostics test pager setup prior to going live.
• The Downtime Simulator demonstrates the Alerting process based on configuration parameters entered for individual Monitors. It shows which Alerts will be executed at each failure point for a configured Monitor. It can also be used to determine Alert coverage for a Monitor on a specific day and time period.