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.
Threshold monitoring
Below is an example screenshot of the Threshold control screen in Monitor one. The example shows a Threshold Shooter (Port_has_changed) that monitors all ports of a switch (sw20) for changes in port-status (compared with the status of the first sample). Just as an example I disconnected the UTP cable from port 20 and connected it to port 21.
In the example above, the Threshold Shooter was monitoring a 24-ports HP2524 workgroup switch which makes monitoring changes in port status not very useful. In backbone environments however, with a lot of redundancy, it is very important to monitor the status of individual ports of routers and/or switches.