2002-03-01 MonitorWare Agent 1.0 Final released

MonitorWare Agent 1.0 Final Released

Adiscon GmbH today announced the immediate availability of MonitorWare
Agent 1.0 FINAL.
After an extended beta period, the product is matured and available.

The MonitorWare Agent is  our flagship system monitoring
product
.”
, says president Rainer Gerhards. “It provides superior operations management for the Windows platform. It integrates a Windows event log monitor, file monitor, syslog server, several probes and much more. I am glad that we now have a final release after a good beta testing period. I would especially thanks all of those we provided feedback and requests for features. The made sure MonitorWare Agent 1.0 fits the needs of the serious system administrator.

MonitorWare Agent offers superb monitoring of Windows NT, 2000 and XP systems as well as the upcoming .NET servers. In addition to that, it can monitor the availibility of any remote system via either standard PING messages or by probing specific services. This even includes machines not running the Windows OS, for example UNIX or LINUX servers. MonitorWare Agent also works as syslog server; as such all syslog-enabled devices can forward messages for processing to MonitorWare.

All incoming message are being processed by a feature-rich rule engine.
It does not matter what source the event came form (for exmaple, syslog or NT Event Log Monitor). The rule engine supports unlimited filters, instant notifications, persistant storage, the ability to start external programs and much more.

MonitorWare Agent 1.0 is the perfect operations management tool. It
can be combined with other members of the MonitorWare line of products like MoniLog. Also, many customers use it to forward monitoring information to existing, syslog based operations management, alterting and monitoring systems. It can be included in many IDS’s.

The MonitorWare Agent 1.0 final release is a free download found at
our web site.
All users are strongly encoured to try it out. All features are fully enabled for 30 days after installation.