PingGraph MultiMonitor 2007 

 

This program in invaluable for Network Admins and people in charge of IT, from a small IT office to a NOC. There are 20 independent live graphs to indicate status of hosts, devices or services. Logging feature will timestamp logs indicating what time a device failed and came back up. GUI customization lets you select most pleasant/appropriate interface.  Very simple to install and use, permits multiple instances to monitor 40 or 60 devices on one PC.  Please look below for more information.

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2/17/2007 - Manual errors corrected.  Please re-download the software or get the new manual below.
 

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Features

• Up to 20 separate monitors running on separate threads
• Two protocol support: ICMP and HTTP
• Drawing of graph lines indicating real-time status of devices or web services
• Two input sources: Program settings and dynamic Server File
• Remote agent monitoring
• Most attributes of program GUI are editable
   

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Requirements

• P3, P4 or Better Computer
• 1.5GHz CPU
• 256 MB RAM
• Windows 2000 or better
• NET 2.0 Framework installed (free from MS)
• Display capable of 1280x1024 for full screen view of all monitors
  
   

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Usage

Program supports 2 agent types: ICMP and HTTP selectable either in program properties or dynamic Server File.
Server file is in your typical input format, comma separated, editable at runtime in notepad or dynamically
updated from your servers or web services.
The first 20 lines of the servers file will be read and assigned accordingly, i.e. line 5 of this file
will be assigned to Monitor #5. Text pass line #20 will be ignored.
The format of this file is following:

SERVER, LABEL, PROTOCOL

Where SERVER is an IP address or DNS name of a server or interface for ICMP, or an URL of a web service
containing ID# of a device/service if needed. And LABEL is how you want to label this monitor -
if "Use Labels" is unchecked in Properties the server/url address will be shown instead. PROTOCOL is one of
two currently supported: ICMP or HTTP. Case and trailing spaces are ignored.
For example; to graph the ping results of a connection to internet you may want to ping yahoo.com, specify:

YAHOO.COM, My ISP Access, ICMP

For web device monitoring you will need to write asp or php script checking on device status and returning
a number between 10 and 120. Select "randomization" setting, i.e. 25. This will create a wiggly line instead
of a static clear/straight. Select 0 for no randomization. For example to monitor a pda #1 alive status:

http://99.11.22.33/devicemonitor.aspx?id=1,PDA01,http

The device ID allows you to monitor devices independently of position in Servers text file.

If you do not wish to create or dynamically update a text file these monitors can be set up in properties.
Press or click the "?" button on the top-right side of the program window to access Properties.
Click the link below to read more.

Click Here for Manual.