News/Highlights
FineConnection is pleased to announce the availability of the new stable Monitor one version FP1.107.403 (January 24, 2010).
For superior trending and long-term analysis, Monitor one can act as a "front end" for RRD. RRD is a system to store and display time-series data. The RRD can also perfectly be used for exporting logged trending data to text files for use in spreadsheets or databases. More...
Monitor one provides an interface to messaging gateway systems, making it easy to send alert messages to pagers, mobile phones, PIMs and wireless devices.
The Monitor one "Desktop" option allows you to save Monitor one desktop configurations to the database for quick access later.
The new version also comes with a new licensing policy. The required license type is now only determined by the number of device objects on the network map from which you want to monitor uptime. The number of concurrently running Shooters (SNMP monitors) is now "unlimited" in all versions (was dependent of the license type!)
The new version allows you to define the font name, size and color for object labels on the network map.
Monitoring a host with multiple IP addresses
Monitor one does not (yet) support monitoring of hosts with multiple IP addresses. However, because it is a good suggestion and multi-homing it HOT these days, we have decided to put it on the TODO list.
For the time being, there's a workaround. It's not very elegant but it works. Imagine that you have a host named "MyHost" with two IP addresses (192.168.2.1 & 192.168.3.1). The workaround is that you add two different device objects to the network map named "MyHost-1" and "MyHost-2" and assign different IP addresses to these objects.