Summary:

The NimBUS Remote System Probe enables organizations to remotely monitor all their Windows, Linux, and UNIX servers—without installing NimBUS monitoring software on those servers. Utilizing standard and secure server management protocols, the NimBUS Remote System Probe enables administrators to do automated server discovery, monitoring, and performance trend reporting.

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To comply with a broad range of corporate governance and security policies, it is increasingly vital for enterprises and service providers to monitor business critical application servers. However, this presents tremendous challenges when organizations can’t install proprietary monitoring software on all their application servers. How can these organizations harness remote access monitoring to keep on top of these important resources?

The NimBUS Remote System Probe provides a powerful solution for remotely accessing and monitoring all of an organization’s Windows, Linux, and UNIX servers. The NimBUS Remote System Probe utilizes standard and secure server management protocols, such as WMI, SSH, and TELNET, to perform automated server discovery, monitoring, and performance trend reporting. The probe can be installed as single or multiple instances across a distributed environment for strategic server monitoring deployments.

The NimBUS Remote System Probe complements NimBUS product offerings, which feature a broad array of advanced, system-resident server, database, and application probes. In addition, it is fully integrated with Nimsoft’s service level management suite, enabling enterprises and service providers to manage their entire infrastructure with a single solution.

Monitors

CPU resource monitoring with support for multi-CPU servers
Disk resource monitoring with local disk drive discovery
Memory resource monitoring: pagefile, swap, physical, and total

Features

Agentless, remote server monitoring for Windows, Linux, and UNIX servers
Automated remote server discovery
Real-time and historical server status views
Server reports show top resource consumers
Utilizes standard and secure remote access communication protocols
Complements NimBUS system-resident server monitoring solutions

Automated Remote Server Discovery – The NimBUS Remote System Probe automatically discovers Windows, UNIX, and Linux servers according to user-defined specifications; automatic discovery can be applied against an individual server hostname or across a defined IP address range. Upon activation of the discovery process, the probe’s GUI progressively displays discovered servers with its hostname, server platform type, and operating system version. The discovery process can be repeated at any time to detect the existence of new servers on the network.

Instant Remote Server Monitoring – Servers selected after completion of the discovery process will have out-of-the-box server monitoring profiles and checkpoints instantly applied and activated. Checkpoint poll intervals are set at 5 minutes by default and are configurable for 10, 15, 30, and 60 minute intervals. Threshold alarms can be set to trigger against the last checkpoint poll value or the average value over a user-defined number of samples. Remote server monitoring checkpoints include:

CPU

Alarms for CPU usage (%) with multi-CPU support
Alarms for total CPU usage
Alarms for individual CPU usage in multi-CPU systems

Disk

Automatic local disk discovery
Alarms for disk usage in MB or %
Information retrieval on local disk: total disk space, free disk space, used (%) disk space

Memory

Alarms for pagefile usage (%)
Alarms for swapping/paging activity page/s
Alarms for physical memory usage (%)
Alarms for total memory usage (%)

Organizing Monitored Servers for Easy Administration – For easy administration and server management, monitored servers can be defined in group and subgroup folders. For example, it’s possible to create Windows, UNIX, and Linux primary group folders that each include multiple secondary groups containing platform types and OS versions.

Real-time and Historical Server Status Views – The NimBUS Remote System Probe offers powerful, intuitive access to server status information, enabling administrators to more easily spot trends and gain early warnings about potential problems.

Because of the NimBUS probe’s centralized view of all remote servers, and its sophisticated graphical user interface, administrators can quickly get an easy-to-scan snapshot of the real-time status of the entire server infrastructure. Further, through this centralized console, administrators can simply double-click on the icon of any remote server being monitored, and drill down to get graphs and status on specific server indicators. The NimBUS probe offers convenient access to a range of reports:

Remote server checkpoint reports, which provide instant access to historical trend data for a specific checkpoint. These reports can provide performance trend views for past hours, and can display minimum, maximum, and average data values.
Remote server summary reports, which summarize Windows, Linux, and UNIX servers by top resource consumers, including CPU, disk, and memory usage; and processor queue length.

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"Our primary IT goal and challenge is to provide high service quality at all times, including times when resource demands are adversely impacted."

"NimBUS provides us with quick and actionable data, from a single management dashboard, which allows us to make strategic decisions within minutes and not hours. Best of all, NimBUS automatically delivers service performance reports so that our IT analysts can focus on business-expanding tasks. This provides us with a higher return on our investment."

Bill Beal, Vice President Information Systems, Liberty Savings Bank