Performance and Security Monitoring Features |
| Real-time monitoring |
- Tested with 5,000 monitored devices and servers
- Hundreds of availability and performance checks per second
- Easily extendable native agents offer more granular monitoring
- All data collected is stored in a SQL database
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| Device configuration |
- Auto-discovery wizard
- Based on IP range
- Based on ICMP ping
- Based on running TCP services
- Different templates for different types of discovered devices
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| Agent-less monitoring options |
- Availability and performance monitoring
- Monitoring of remote services (FTP, SSH, HTTP, other)
- Support of SNMP v1,2,3
- SNMP traps
- Support of HTTP and HTTPS
- Step-by-step scenarios for monitoring (login, perform transaction, logout)
- Support of GET and POST methods
- User-defined scripts for enhanced remote checks and performance testing
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| Agent-based monitoring features |
- All platforms supported (UNIX, Windows, Novell)
- Processor utilization
- Available and used memory
- Available and used drive space
- Disk I/O
- Operating System specific metrics such as page file usage
- Application specific metrics such as transactions per second, memory usage and error messages
- File checksums
- Monitoring of log files
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| Integration with 3rd party security solutions |
- Extend the capabilities of existing 3rd party security and management solutions such as :
- Tivoli
- HP OpenView
- TripWire
- Snort
- Net Manager
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| Issue identification |
- Security related issues such as:
- Root-kit or trojan infections
- Security policy violations
- Abnormal network traffic
- Performance and availability issues such as :
- Memory or processor utilization exceeding thresholds
- Application service not responding to requests (e.g. web server not delivering content)
- Low disk space
- Device unresponsive
- Or create your own flags to conform with your existing policies and SLA's.
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| Issue resolution |
- Reaction instructions can be modified to meet any organization's policies and procedures.
- Reactions can be defined to a specific device or issue
- Flexible instructions can include any of the following:
- Email, phone, SMS or IM notification of specific personnel
- Automatic execution of remote commands on devices in question
- Flag for follow up within the FireScope interface
- Simpler root-cause analysis of issues with access to long term performance trending and log details
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