Server Monitoring Software Reviews and Downloads

ServersCheck Monitoring Software

ServersCheck Monitoring is a utility for monitoring, reporting and alerting on network and systems availability. It can monitor up to 50 devices, using any TCP Port (HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, NNTP, POP3, SMTP, VNC, DNS, etc.) and also perform database checks (ODBC, Oracle, MySQL), trap SNMP values (disk space, free memory, CPU usage etc.), verify content served from a web server and check NT services and process availability. In addition to regular network devices, the program can also can monitor environmental devices like temperature, humidity, flooding. If problems are detected, ServersCheck will alert you via SMS, pager, e-mail, network message, HTTP post or MSN message. With the optional Alert IVR module you can even call the server using any phone to acknowledge received alerts and let other users know that you are working on the problem. ServersCheck Monitoring Software runs as a local service and is administrated via a browser based interface. Additional features include alerts and graph output for long-term statistics tracking.

ConnectionMonitor

ConnectionMonitor is a small tool to ping a number of hosts at regular intervals, to determine if your connection is working. It can be set to check many hosts individualy with a customisable ping timeout.

ServersCheck Monitoring

ServersCheck Monitoring Free Edition is a utility for monitoring, reporting and alerting on network and systems availability. The standard version can be used for free with up to 15 devices, which is probably more than adequate for personal use. It can monitor any TCP Port (HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, NNTP, POP3, SMTP, VNC, DNS, etc.), check ODBC, Oracle, MySQL databases, trap SNMP values (disk space, free memory, CPU usage,...), verify content served from a web server and check NT services and process availability. In addition, it also can monitor environmental devices like temperature, humidity, flooding. Alerting can be done via email, MSN or network message. ServersCheck Monitoring runs as a local service and is administrated through a browser interface by connecting to the built-in web server. Additional features include alerts and graph output for long-term statistics tracking.

VisualPulse Web Edition

VisualPulse Web Edition is a network and server monitor that provides a web based report interface for Ping, HTTP, SNMP, and TCP performance. It can alert you by email or SNMP trap if any of the monitored devices become unavailable. The web interface is rather primitive and only offers very basic functionalities and statistics tables, however it does include a real-time graph display, as well as a statistical graph with customizable time spans. We found VisualPulse Web Edition to be lacking in many aspects, ranging from lack of alert options and limited monitoring options to a poor interface and configuration. The program can run as a Windows service, however this requires manual service install/uninstall via DOS. The price does not include any future updates (can be purchased separately).

SyslogIT

SyslogIT by Pointesoft enables you to easily monitor 'LIVE' syslog data, print, archive and search all network activity. Syslog data is stored in the free SQL Express database.

Internet Server Monitor

Internet Server Monitor enables network administrators to monitor web servers and services for availability, and get notified when problems occur. The program offers alerts via email, message box, sound, Syslog or EvenLog entry, as well as SMS (ClickaTel). Internet Server Monitor can run as Windows Service and supports HTTP, FTP, SMTP, Ping, POP3, TCP and SQL Server monitors, each with individual configuration options. You can schedule the monitors to run every X minutes, or daily, weekly or monthly intervals. Monitors can be organized into groups and you can review the history for each monitored device.

LogMeister

LogMeister is a universal log reader with customizable monitoring and notification features. It allows you to monitor text logs, Windows EventLogs (local and remote), Windows Firewall logs, as well as RSS Feeds and web site changes. You can apply multiple filters to limit logging to specific entries, set alerts to be notified by popup or email message and more. The interface maintains all tracked logs in an easy-to read display, and further allows you to export selected logs to formatted HTML reports, CSV or XML. The program can harvests log data from computers across your network without the need for additional installations (access privileges required). LogMeister is very flexible and can be used for many purposes, including monitoring of web server log files for specific entries, keyword alerts for monitored RSS feeds, error management across networks, aggregating of monitored log entries and more.

IPCheck Server Monitor

IPCheck Server Monitor allows you to monitor your server(s) and be notified via email when they are down. The interface is browser based and provides a detailed overview with statistics on each of the monitored devices. IPCheck Server Monitor supports a variety of web services, including PING, HTTP, SQL, Disk Space, DNS and others. It can alert you via email, network broadcast, HTTP post, program execution or sound notification in the event that a device becomes unavailable. The free version is limited to 5 devices and limits checking intervals to 15 minutes.

WebSite-Watcher Beta

WebSite-Watcher allows you to monitor websites for updates and changes. Don't waste your time to check pages manually in your browser when WebSite-Watcher can do this time-consuming job for you. Website-Watcher highlights all changes in a page, see what you're looking for in seconds.

Keep-Alive 2

Keep-Alive 2 is a network and server monitoring program designed to help you pro-actively tackle problems before your users start to complain! If you run a website, look after a rack of database servers, or perhaps simply keep an eye on your home PC from work, then Keep-Alive 2 is for you. Keep-Alive 2 can monitor a device using an assortment of methods, so you'll still know if your mail server program has failed even if the server still responds to pings for instance. The product is reasonably priced at just ??15 per license - and that lets you add an unlimited number of monitors! If you aren't sure yet, then please try our fully functional demo on the download page - it will work for 30 days - and see for yourself how Keep Alive 2 keeps you in touch with your systems! Keep-Alive 2 is a new product, and we'd love to hear your ideas to make the product work harder for you. If you have ideas for new monitors or alerting methods you'd like to see, then get in touch!

GFI WebMonitor for ISA Server

GFI WebMonitor is a utility for Microsoft ISA Server, designed to provide a solution to transparently exercise a degree of control over the browsing habits of your network users. It allows you to monitor the sites users are browsing and what files they are downloading in real-time. In addition it can block access to adult sites and perform anti-virus scanning on all downloads, using the bundled BitDefender engine.

Alchemy Eye

Alchemy Eye is a network and system management tool that continuously monitors server availability and performance. In the event of network errors, Alchemy Eye can alert the network administrator by cell phone or pager before problems get seriously out of hand. Alchemy Eye offers support for a variety of checks, including NT Event Log, SQL database, Disk space, file existence and a lot more. Of course it can also check the standard HTTP and Ping ports. Actions taken upon server failure also include the optional execution of custom VB scripts or programs, computer restarts and even database queries. The program supports scheduled maintenance, so you won`t be alerted if the outage was scheduled.

Performance Monitoring Protocol

Performance Monitoring Protocol (PMP) is a utility that allows remote server performance monitoring for multiple NT/2K servers. It allows to monitor real time CPU, memory usage status and can send an email alert message in case of a specified server status (e.g low memory). The program includes the PMP Agent, which installs on the server, as well as PMP Admin, which is the standalone administration client to monitor the server. Unfortunately, the PMP agent cannot run as an NT service, which limits it`s usability. While the Agent can only run on Win2K/NT/XP, the admin tool can run on Win95/98/ME as well. Price includes license to monitor a single server.

Alchemy Network Monitor PRO

Alchemy Network Monitor monitors your network servers and business-critical applications availability and performance and immediately alerts you if a server gets out of order. Alchemy Network Monitor can also perform certain actions (e.g. launch an external program or execute an SQL query) when a server stops responding to the programs requests and maintain a detailed server monitoring log. With Alchemy Network Monitor Network Administrators can receive detailed reports on their servers activity and performance that helps to balance the server and network load and detect bottlenecks

Simple Server Monitor

Simple Server Monitor is a powerful, yet easy to use server monitoring utility. It allows you to monitor the status of your servers and web applications from your desktop. Simple Server Monitor runs as a Windows Service with GUI monitoring console. When a monitor fails, you are notified by a pop-up message, an e-mail alert (user customizable messages), and/or a sound alert. Supports Ping, HTTP/HTTP, FTP/FTPS, SMTP/SMTPS, POP3/POP3S, IMAP/IMAPS, and Custom monitors (supports SSL/TLS). Simple Server Monitor also supports performance monitoring by charting the monitor response time and by logging (optional) all monitor queries to a log file and/or the event log.

Site Vigil

Site Vigil is a web site monitoring tool that checks access to pages and availability of servers on the Internet or LAN. In addition, you can analyze error reports, keywords and search phrases by scanning the server log files on a regular basis and even monitor your position in the search engines. The server log files can be accessed via FTP, secure FTP or local file. You can use Site Vigil to alert you when a web page has been modified, a server has become unavailable, page access is slow etc. Using the log scanning feature, you can also be notified of unexpected surges or lulls in visitor traffic. The program can notify you of problems via email, sound, system events and in several other ways. A built-in scheduler allows you to run all monitoring actions automatically. Additional features include long-term statistic with colored graphical charts, summary reports and more.

Advanced Host Monitor

Advanced Host Monitor is a system management tool that can monitor hundreds or thousands of servers or network devices using 56 different test methods, including ping, retrieve an URL, check the available disk space, check integrity of your files and web site, test your SQL server, and more. If a device does not respond, it can take a pre-defined action that includes sound warning, email notification, pager or mobile phone notification, execute external programs, remote shutdown/reboot and more. In addition program can also generate a log file that can be configured to suit your needs. Additional features include Log Analyzer to illustrate information for each tested host and collect statistical information, as well as a HML Manager, Web Service, Telnet Service, Remote Monitoring Agents (for Windows, Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris) and other utilities. Advanced Host Monitor is also available as Lite($99), Standard ($175) or Professional ($275) edition.

Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold

This program gives network administrators excellenter control and understanding of their networks. Features include mapping, monitoring, reporting and notification.

ApHeMo

ApHeMo is a Health Monitoring analyser for the famous Apache HTTP Server ApHeMo is a Health Monitoring analyser for the famous Apache HTTP Server. ApHeMo makes administrators able to improve security, reliability and to easily detect attacks from hackers (scans, potential backdoors...) Here are some key features of "ApHeMo": 1. Automatic log analysis 2. Error validation (after investiguation, spurious alert, known bug...) 3. Autofilter to remove spurious alerts 4. Attackers IP address detection for backtrace or correlation 5. International support

SysSense

SysSense runs in the system tray and monitors your Google AdSense account for changes. You can review various statistics from the tray icon info tip, including impressions, earnings, clicks and other details, and also generate a report with performance graphs. The program can monitor multiple AdSense accounts, supports custom sound notifications and proxy server connections.

HyperSentry

HyperSentry is a simple web services monitor that allows you to monitor HTTP, SMTP, FTP, IMAP, POP3 and PING responses from an unlimited number of hosts. If a service does not respond within the defined timeout, the program can alert you by sound, pop-up window, email alert and/or HTTP post. HyperSentry is easy to use, suitable for non-technical users, but lacks the features and flexibility of more advanced monitoring tools.

ITA Monitor

ITA Monitor will immediately notify if mission-critical services such as World Wide Web Publishing Service, Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), SharePoint Portal Server service, Exchange Server Services and more have failed. Other applications monitor ports remotely but this program is unique and more efficient since ITA Monitor gets instant event driven information directly from the operating system the moment service status changes and is able to notify you promptly. ITA Monitor is a very light weight and efficient utility. After installation, simply select the services that need monitoring and enter the cell-phones or email addresses that should receive alerts when a service goes down, restarts, or comes up. With ITA Monitor, you'll always know the status of critical Windows Services, no matter where you are. ITA Monitor is a utility that all Microsoft Windows Administrators will find it extremely useful.

Advanced HostMonitor

HostMonitor is an award-winning system management tool that continuously monitors servers availability and performance. It can monitor any TCP service, ping a host, retrieve an URL, check the available disk space, check integrity of your files and web site, test your SQL server, and much more (36 test methods!). It checks network servers at regular intervals and takes pre-defined actions if a device does not respond. It can provide a visual and sound warning, send an E-mail message to a mailbox, pager or mobile phone, execute external programs, restart services, etc (25 alert methods!). HostMonitor can generate test result log files and reports. HostMonitor provides different log file detail levels and log file formats and can be configured to suit your needs. Advanced Host Monitor is a software that helps you to monitor a network.

MultiPing Grapher

MultiPing Grapher is a graphical ping tool that allows you to keep track of up to 10 network connections, that are loaded from a text file (one host per line). The graphs display the current ping value, as well as the average value. As with any ping tool, you can adjust packet size and ping interval. MultiPing Grapher does not include any alert funtionalities.

Radar Website Monitor

Radar Website Monitor allows you to monitor up to 15 Internet sites, including HTTP, FTP and mail servers. If one of the monitored items causes a problem, you can be notified via email message, tray popup or custom command line action. The program supports GET, POST and HEADER methods, and can also look for specific keywords, that should be present in the HTML code. A statistical graph allows you to view performance for the last few minutes at a glance, and text statistics provide long term performance data. The trial version is limited to 300 checks per session.

ieSupportManager

ieSupportManager is a fully featured desktop and web based helpdesk system. Features include a web interface, email notifications, email logging, knowledgebase, contract management facilities and a comprehensive suite of reports. ieSupportManager allows users to add to and search its knowledgebase and prioritise, sort and filter issues to suit their own preferred view. It also allows the user to identify unusual issues and track trends. Easy to install and simple to use for both support staff and end users alike the system is also very competitively priced and comes with full context sensitive Help. ieSupportManager uses the latest web based and desktop technology to enable you to have complete control over the support process without the complications and costs associated with other more expensive solutions. Also backed up by ieComputerSystems expertise in helpdesk development, ieSupportManager is not just a take it or leave it solution but can be built upon to create an integrating bespoke solution to fit any organisations specific helpdesk requirements.

Servers Alive

Servers Alive is a feature rich network monitor. It can monitor any WinSock service (TCP:FTP, HTTP, POP3, SMTP, IMAP4, DNS,... and UDP:Radius and Quake II etc.), ping a host/machine, check if an NT Service is running (which can be restarted by Servers Alive), check if an NT process is running, monitor the available disk space on a remote machine, check for the correct content of a webpage, check a MS SQL server, check an Oracle database and so on. The program offers a variety of notification options including SMS, email, pager and even ICQ or MSN Messenger notifications. It comes with an optional built-in web server to serve a status page, ftp upload, escalation schemes and much much more. Servers Alive is one of the most complete server monitoring solutions on the market. Servers Alive can run as an NT service.

B4Failure

B4Failure is the most comprehensive all-in-one monitor for your servers and network. Offering built in checks for checking performance counters, network accessability, diskussage, eventlogs and much much more. If B4Failure cannot fulfill your needs it allows you to write your own scripts.

ServerRadar Server Monitor

ServerRadar is a powerful and easy-to-use server monitoring software. It can monitor your web server, mail server, ftp server, Database server and DNS server. In the event of server errors, ServerRadar will notify you immediately by sending emails, playing sounds, running specified programs and more. To give you an open-and-shut view of your servers

LAN Viewer

LAN Viewer enables you to monitor shared folders on a network and be notified when new files are added to the resource. The program can automatically check the shares at regular time intervals, daily, weekly, or on certain days of the week, and notify you by popup alert or email message when new files have been added. You can limit the notification to certain file extension, and also let the program copy the new files to a designated folder on your machine. The tray icon also provides convenient access to the monitored folders from the menu dialog.

WatchMouse Site Monitor for Windows

This small program keeps an eye on your website, right from your PC. Shows performance graphs and alerts you in case of errors. New in version 1.1: continuous monitoring, even when your PC is not connected to the Internet.

Alchemy Network Monitor

IsItUp

IsItUp allows you to monitor multiple multiple network IP addresses, email servers, or web servers and optionally notifies you via email or pager of the status of the monitored devices. IsItUp also maintains complete statistics for each device it monitors, including up-time, maximum response time, minimum response time, standard deviation and several other measurements. You can also setup custom ports or protocols.

Advanced Host Monitor Enterprise

Right Web Monitor Pro

Right Web Monitor Pro is a handy tool for detecting changes in web resources (web pages, files etc). It constantly monitors specified resources and notifies you when a change occurs. The program features the ability to check a certain part of a monitored resource, and includes a comprehensive notification system (pop-up windows,sound, e-mail, SMS), built-in RSS reader, and multithreaded data transfer.Can download changed files and check maiboxes.

DocuMonitor

DocuMonitor is a simple web site, WWW/FTP file and local file modification monitor, that allows you to monitor local files or internet resources for changes. This includes web pages, FTP files and others. The program can perform an optional binary comparison and look for specific strings in web pages. Monitoring is simple and alerts you when an item has changed (but does not provide further details). Additional features include optional sound notification and support for password protected resources. Monitoring can be automated to check every X minutes.

URL Helper

URL Helper is a packet sniffer, that has been designed to decode download links for streaming audio and video, that are hidden behind JavaScript or ActiveX scripts. You can limit the list of file extensions to be captured and also color code them for easy reference.

Lively Browser

Have you ever wondered a list of the most popular sites in the world or just in your country? Try Lively Browser, a wonderful way to get kinds of popular and useful site lists. Currently, it includes the most popular sites ordered by Alexa Traffic Rank in the world as well as in individual countries. It also includes the most popular forums in directories(e.g.Invisionfree). All these site lists can be downloaded and opened from the "AllSites" view of Lively Browser. Moreover, our site lists are growing and updating everyday, and once you have downloaded a site list, Lively Browser can check and download its updates for you automatically.

IPSentry Network Monitoring Suite

You can use this tool to monitor your network servers and devices 24 hours a day. The network aspects monitored include Web servers, CGIs, FTP, POP3, SMTP, scripts, routers, bridges, databases, and disk drive space.

NTP Server Monitor

TimeTools NTP Server Monitor is a free software utility that runs on any Windows platform, workstation or server. It allows any number of NTP time servers to be constantly monitored. Any servers that are operating outside of pre-set tolerances are highlighted. It can also, optionally, synchronise system time with the optimal time server

Refresher

Automatically refresh Web pages at custom intervals with Refresher. You can also use a 'Dual Browser' mode where you can refresh, navigate and view two different Web sites simultaneously. You can also program Refresher to remind you or shut down the computer at a specific time.

WebMonit

Check latest news? Stock price is up or down? Your website has some problem?... You need not check these manually. WebMonit can do these for you. It can monitor web pages changes automatically. Monitor content could be the whole webpage or a part of webpage or just a field. A user defined event could be triggered when change occurred. WebMonit is a powerful and easiest-to-use web pages monitor tool available for Windows 98/NT/Me/2000/XP/2003.

Performance Pinging

Performance Pinging is a simple, standalone tool to test the availability, response times and performance of a given IP address (or domain name), using ICMP. It can ping a host every X seconds and display a real-time performance graph of the results. In addition, it can write the results to a text file for later interpretation.

POM

POM is a webpage monitoring tool designed to provide automatic alerting of web outages in critical online environments. POM uses HTML source-code comparison to determine the validity of returned test pages and ensure that the expected webpage is being served in response to a navigation request.

AuditISX 2006

AuditISX 2006 allows you to generate a hardware and software audit of your workstations or server, and save the collected information to various types of database and file formats, including XML, text, Access, SQL Server 2000/2005, MSDE, SQL 2005 Express, and Oracle. A report can also be printed in text format. The program can gather a vast amount of information from the local machine or selected remote computers (proper access privileges required), and you can also limit the audit to selected sections. The resulting report is not very reader-friendly and mostly intended for printing or data export.

DeltaSpy

DeltaSpy enables you to check your favorite sites or blogs for updates and view the highlighted changes from a built-in browser preview. The program works silently in the background and notifies you from the system tray when changes were found. You can configure each site individually and also set specific criteria with keywords and Regular Expressions. Other features include support for HTTP authentication, easy addition on new sites via drop target, user-defined categories and more. DeltaSpy supports monitoring of ordinary web pages as well as RSS, Atom, RDF, XML and text files on the Internet.

Orbiscope Observer

Orbiscope Observer enables you to track changes in web pages and RSS feeds. It highlight the changes, using a built-in browser display and also allows you to view previous versions of the page, which is useful to catch up with changes that occurred over several days. In addition, you can watch for certain keywords to appear and monitor dynamic images (e.g stock charts). If a page has changed or a keyword is detected, you can be alerted via popup message, email or network message. Additional features include support for HTTP authentication, proxy connections, FTP upload of reports and export to HTML and Excel format.

sMonitor

sMonitor allows you to verify network connectivity of TCP/IP hosts on the Internet and LAN. It supports periodic checks of TCP and UDP ports and comes pre-configured for the most common services. If it detects an outage, you can be notified via sound alert or email message, and can optionally launch a an program or execute a script on failure and/or status change. Advanced users can use these options to perform Telnet actions on the machine. sMonitor comes with a very plain and simple interface and does not look like much, however it offers quit a few features under the gray hood, that include an option to run as NT service, HTML status page that can be automatically uploaded via FTP, as well as custom intervals based on time of day. Additional features include logging, customizable check sequences, and unlimted check entries.

NetPing

NetPing is a small, standalone network scanner that returns status and additional information from computers on the network. You can ping a range of IP addresses and review Operating System, Uptime, Processor info, Memory info and available disk space. In addition, you can also send a message via Net Send, reboot the remote computer and view available shares.

Evo Server Alive Monitoring System

This software notifies administrators when a server is down or when any of its tracked services is down. The down services can be configured to restart automatically. It can be configured to wake a remote computer up when services are down. It will send notifications to the administrator when any of the Evo SAM clients reporting are offline. It can be configured to report to another Evo SAM server to tell the Evo SAM server that she is currently online. It supports saving and printing of reports.

CleverEye

CleverEye is a network monitoring tool for servers, network appliances, databases and applications. It can send email notifications if a service goes down and can generate detailed reports, that can be exported to Excel or emailed. The program runs as NT service and provides a browser based administration interface that displays the current status of each monitored node, as well as the overall network status. Additional features include reports for recent failures, graphical charts and group profiles. The free version is limited to 4 nodes and does not support advanced notification scenarios.

GFI Network Server Monitor

GFI Network Server Monitor automatically monitors specified networks and servers for failures and alerts the administrator via email, SMS, pager or Net Send message. In addition, it can automatically perform actions such as rebooting a machine, restarting a service or running a script. The program runs as a service and provides an administrative interface (client) that can be run from any machine on the network. Built-in monitoring rules include Exchange Server 2000/2003, MS SQL, Oracle and ODBC databases, CPU usage, FTP, HTTP, Active Directory, Disk Space, Event Log (with content checking) and many others. Advanced users can also write custom monitor functions in VBscript and leverage ADSI and WMI, allowing you to monitor virtually anything.

Emsa Web Monitor

Emsa Web Monitor is a simple ping tool, that allows you to monitor (ping) a list of web servers. It offers a compact interface with a small statistical graph for each site, and can be minimized to the system tray.

ThreatSentry

ThreatSentry is an IIS ISAPI add-on, that continuously collects, analyze and organizes server events into an evolving baseline of acceptable activity. Each server connection is compared against this baseline to identify and take action against any activity falling outside of acceptable parameters. The program starts in a training mode were it starts to learn which activity should be considered normal and which not. The administrator can interact with the results to further fine tune the results. You can define a security policy that will act upon threats by blocking the IP address, sending alerts (email, pager, visual, audio) or stopping the web service.

GFI LANguard Security Event Log Monitor

This software is a network-wide event log monitor that retrieves logs from all NT/2000 servers and workstations and immediately alerts the administrator of possible intrusions for immediate host based intrusion detection. Using the LANguard event viewer, you can also create network-wide reports and identify machines being targeted as well as local users trying to hack internal company information.

EMCO Monitor Live Connectivity

This software detects network and server failures, and sends alerts if certain hosts are down.

Eazi Website Monitor

This software is a Web site checking tool to help you find broken links on your Web site periodically. The checking interval can be configured, and when the broken links are found, a report will be generated.

Web Checker

Check a Web site and all the links in it. You can set the checking depth. Web Checker will show the results in a tree style view. You can double click the item and open it to see what is updated. It supports using HTTP proxy servers to check sites, and uses multithreaded technology to check and download sites.

Site Sentinel

Ensure your IIS based Web site is loaded, so users don't get first-hit performance lag. The program may be configured to monitor an unlimited number of Web sites and will e-mail an unlimited number of recipients per site. E-mails are sent when the Site Sentinel service is started or stopped, and when your Web site fails to respond. After the site recovers from a failure an e-mail is sent letting you know the site is OK again.

Web Monitor

Automatically monitor Web pages. Check for changes on Web pages periodically or according to a user defined schedule. Areas on a Web pages can be selected for monitoring according to various change criteria. When a change event occurs various notification actions can be enabled. Such actions include playing a sound file, sending an e-mail or SMS message and even running another program.