Chroniker for Availability Monitoring Feedback System

License: Freeware | Author: NRG Global | Requirements: 100 MB disk space, 256 MB of RAM

What Chroniker for Availability Monitors
NodeWatch gives you complete view on the availability of your environment, Ping Check Routers, Switches, and other vital network components.

Monitor Servers or any TCP Connect based application
DNS, FTP, Web servers, Mail servers, and Application servers monitoring

TaskWatch monitors response time of your applications by executing user defined tasks. That is, it monitors availability from the application layer perspective.

Database, FTP, Webserver, Advanced Webserver, DNS, Mail Server, LDAP Server, Network File Copy, Active Directory, and Custom Test

Features and Capabilities
Network Status Map: Quickly see a graphical display of your nodes and displays alert
message as the mouse moves over the node. (NodeWatch Only)
Dependencies- Apply dependencies to your nodes as needed and be alerted if a router goes down, without receiving multiple alerts from the other nodes affected by it.
Side Watch- Small Window that gives an overview
Ready-made Reports
Predefined essential reports in real time: Top N, Service Level, Agreement (SLA)
Daily / Monthly / Yearly Report, Node Alert Details, and Event List
Historical reports: pull up reports for any date
Email reports: share with managers or colleagues
Export report data to MS Excel
Grouping -Easily classify nodes into groups with common attributes for easier management
Profiles - Create monitoring window profiles e.g.: "business hours","weekends"
Exclude maintenance / blackout periods
Quickly assign profiles to monitoring groups
User Management
Grant read write access to different users for security purposes
Graphing
Zoom from minute to monthly scale
Summary statistics
Choose line or bar graph style
Alerts / Reactions
Numerical paging, Email, SNMP trap, and custom scripts
Set alarm thresholds, persistence conditions and two reactions per alert
Four alert levels: Down, Error, Warning, Information
Email can include up to 8 alert variables