SNMP Informant
tm
Windows SNMP Extension Agents
Purchasing SNMP Informant is a smart decision. Here's a short list of what SNMP Informant can offer you:
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Low Cost - IT managers are
constantly being asked to do more with less. You hear it all the time.
SNMP Informant is priced in such as way as to make it compelling to install
across your entire Windows infrastructure.
In fact, you can purchase our agents at a
fraction of what you would pay for
others, and get a huge return on your investment!
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Maximum Value - SNMP Informant
-Advanced provides a wealth of valuable data from the Windows operating system, such
as Memory, Logical Disk (capacity), Network, Active Directory, DNS, WINS,
Print Queues, Media Services, RAS, Physical Disk (I/O), TCP, IP and UDP
protocols, and many (many!) more. Other products such as SNMP
Informant-Exchange, SNMP Informant-SQL and SNMP Informant-AppServer extend this performance insight into application servers such as SQL,
Exchange, ISA and BizTalk. For more information, check out the
Products Page. Need to restart
services, or servers? SNMP Informant-OS lets you do that remotely using
SNMP SET commands!
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Enterprise Ready - Whether you are monitoring basic counters on a few serves, or are ready to implement SNMP monitoring across your Windows enterprise SNMP Informant is ready!
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Ease of Deployment - Providing the Microsoft SNMP service is installed, you can activate SNMP Informant in seconds. On Windows XP and Windows 2003, you do not even have to reboot or restart the SNMP service.* Our agents can even be installed silently and without user intervention through a login script or other mechanisms (i.e. SMS package deployment).
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Compatibility - SNMP Informant extends the existing Microsoft SNMP stack. No need to install another SNMP service. Other agents require their own master agent in addition to, or completely replace the MS agent. From a management application perspective, SNMP Informant is compliant with SNMPv1 and SNMPv2 standards. Are you, or do you want to use SNMPv3? See here.
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Adds to your Network Management ROI - SNMP Informant allows you to do more with your existing SNMP compliant Network Management System by increasing it's capabilities with minimal cost.
What can you do with SNMP Informant?
Problem Diagnosis -
Wherever you might think of using
Performance Monitor to help you analyze a systems' performance, or
troubleshoot a problem, you can use SNMP Informant, and gather this data
remotely (without the processing overhead of Performance Monitor).
Trend Analysis -
Most enterprise grade applications have the ability to collect
SNMP-collected data over extended periods. This historical data allows
you analyze patterns of usage and set an operative baseline. For
example, using SNMP Informant to provide on-going disk space, network
and processor utilization statistics to your monitoring application, enables
you to know exactly how many gigabytes are being consumed each month on what
servers, how busy each server is, and how much data is flowing in and out of
each system.
Capacity Planning - Using the
example above, you would be able to accurately budget for disk space,
processor, and network upgrades well in advance, and schedule your
down-time, rather than reactively making unplanned changes.
Budget Forecasting - With the
insight provided by SNMP Informant, you will be able to accurately budget
for upgrades and/or replacements. This proactive approach might enable you to
take advantage of special sales incentives rather than have to reactively
make major IT purchases.
Please compare our products with our competitors. Make an informed decision. We firmly believe that our products provide an unbeatable combination of function and value, and that SNMP Informant stands strong as a real alternative to other expensive (and in many cases, underutilized) SNMP agents.
First of all, Identify the systems you want to monitor, and determine what level of monitoring you want to apply on each. Think of the levels as BASIC, ADVANCED and ENTERPRISE.
BASIC: On systems where you want to monitor core-four statistics (Processor, Memory, Disk and Network), you need only download and install the free SNMP Informant-Standard version of SNMP Informant.
ADVANCED: As your network infrastructure grows, you can upgrade to SNMP Informant-Advanced and start monitoring performance counters other than those provided by the Standard version. Some of the more important performance counters include System, Cache, WINS, DNS, RAS, Active Directory, Media Services and Web Services to name a few!
ENTERPRISE: If you are responsible for the monitoring of mission critical enterprise services (i.e. Messaging, Collaboration, Database and Internet Access), then you should consider SNMP Informant-Exchange, SNMP Informant-SQL and SNMP Informant-AppServer as well as SNMP Informant-Citrix and SNMP Informant-OS (which supports SNMP SETs so you can stop/start/pause services, remotely (and securely) execute programs and scripts, and remotely shut-down and restart servers!).
The diagram below illustrates how you can use SNMP Informant to monitor your servers.
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