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EventSentry 2.9 provides comprehensive server monitoring

By Alex Handy

January 9, 2009 — (Page 1 of 2)
Ingmar Koecher founded EventSentry in 2002 because he couldn't find the software he needed to monitor his servers. Koecher, an Austrian-born systems administrator, had a retinue of scripts designed to let him know when there was server trouble in his stable, but those scripts eventually turned into his day job. Now known as EventSentry 2.9, Koecher's event monitoring software brings comprehensive controls over alarms and alerts for Windows administrators and developers.

Koecher said that the primary draw for EventSentry has always been its focus and a low price point. At US$85 a year, EventSentry can monitor just about every log and event file in a Windows server, and can run alerts based on numerous variables and conditions within those files, he claims.

“One of the advantages of EventSentry is that it's very versatile. That gives it a lot of uses,” said Koecher.

"You can monitor event logs and consolidate them. You can send them via e-mail or write them to a database. Or let's say a Web service goes down, then the developers can get an e-mail. EventSentry allows you to create complex rules so you can have multiple people on a team receive alerts. A sysadmin might want some events, while developers might want to get others. Every time there's a seg fault, there's an event log generated. We probably have one of the more complex rule sets out there. You can restrict e-mails by time. You can say, 'I want an e-mail during the day, I want a page at night.' ”

Koecher said that version 2.9 can also monitor standard log files for anything running under Windows, and that this capability is also now available on Linux. While Windows is the current focus of the product, Linux will factor more heavily into it as time passes.

“We have service monitoring, disk space monitoring and event log backups," said Koecher. "Using Ntp (network time protocol), we can offer performance monitoring. Windows includes the performance monitor that gives you stats on everything from memory usage and processes to SQLServer info. All that stuff is available through the Windows performance monitor, and you can monitor these counters and you can either get alerts on strict data, or you can take averages.

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