Templates

Good afternoon,



We are now looking for a good monitoring tool for our servers. We tried a lot of programs, Server side only and Server/client tools. But most programs lack the use of Templates for adding complete server monitoring.



I'll explain this further. One program we tried was TSMS. The configuration was as shown now. All events get echo'd all hdd's are checked, cpu's memory, everything is checked, on a server you add.. Only you have to configure on what level it should warn you. so.. Block certain events, like for instance information events, or errors you know that are there..



This would make the configuration alot faster then configurating each and every server by hand. especially if you have simular servers.



I couldnt find this option in the test version, it might be in the enterprise.. but i would like to know, and what options there could be configurated if that option would exist.



With Kind regards,



Jerry Holkamp

Dear Sir,



The configuration of all checks is stored in an open format file (see structure definition in the help file). The file is serverscheck.conf



By having an open format, users can integrate ServersCheck with other systems to automatically add/remove checks or duplicate (like you intend to do).



How to do this? Well very simple: create manually your base set of rules for 1 server. The select the rules you created in the serverscheck.conf file and perform a copy-paste. In the new paste section do a replace all for the specific settings of your server (eg IP address or servername). That's it. In a minute you can add new server with all the specific rules to the monitoring by using this trick

ok, thanks for your answer, but wouldnt it be easier for new customers to have a "wizard" to help them configure that server. For instance we want all Events, except the ones we block.

With over 10,000 performance counters on Windows based systems, with monitoring options for both Linux and Windows, with database checks,.... there are simply too many options and possible combinations to make it visible.



However a device copy is planned. So that from the device view you can copy rules. This will probably not be available in release 6.0 but in one of the releases after 6.0