Functionality

Extromatica Network Monitor can be run either as standalone application or as Windows Service. It continuously checks workability of your servers and availability of crucial services. If something is going wrong, application will send notification and/or try to resolve the problem automatically applying user-defined set of actions. All activity is recorded to the log and can be analyzed later. It is possible to log selected events remotely using external services like Syslog or Eventlog.

Actual information can be exported to HTML by user request or by the schedule. Last allows easily integrate Extromatica Network Monitor with any Web server to access monitoring state reports remotely. To manage thousands of checks in the large environments a number of handy wizards included into the application.

Check grouping

In case of huge number of checks, they can be separated into named groups for easy access and maintain. User interface supports unlimited number of nested groups. For the one's convenience, group caption shows the total number of checks inside the group as well as number of success and failed ones. Moreover, group icon changes its color if there is though one failed check in the group. Checks can be copied/moved between groups using both clipboard and drag-and-drop technology.

Real-time filter groups

Sometimes, the static grouping is not enough. For example, if it is required to look at all success checks at a time (all running checks, all checks of specified type etc). We introduced special filter groups for this purpose. These groups can be created by using wide range of criteria. The word 'real-time' means the group will show only checks meeting specified condition right now. So, this feature can give the true dynamic picture of the checking process from different point of views.

Informational panel

This is smart and easy-to-use information center of the system. Three tab panels contain application log window, window with statistic of currently selected group and informational property window of currently selected check. All information or any part of it can be easily exported into the clipboard in the human-readable format.

Double-click on a check in the statistic window gives access to the check information window. Particularly, this window contains log messages of the check, filtered out from the application log. Log window function 'Locate check' can be used to quickly find and show the check, source of the log message.

On-screen-display (OSD) event window

Important messages can be configured to be shown in the lightweight pop-up window near the application system tray icon. Right mouse click allows setup OSD window and double-click opens main application window. In case of event window being not touched, it automatically disappears. Being turned off, it can be enabled back in the options.

Pop-up event dialog

In case the functionality of OSD event window is not enough, the special pop-up dialog can be shown on important events of fail and restore at the center of screen. The check information (including history and statistics) can be invoked directly from this dialog. Function 'Locate check' can be used to open main application window and automatically find signaled check item as well. Like the OSD event window, the behavior of this pop-up can be changed in-place and it can automatically close itself if does not detect user interaction.