Lizard Software - Network Monitoring Solutions, 24/7 Mission Critical Application Availability, Application Monitor, Remote Web Management

<BODY> <P>Company's Lizard ™ Application Monitor is the powerful and convenient monitoring package with many distinguishing features and capabilities.</P> <P>Monitoring is based on the regular execution of scheduled monitoring tasks and further analysis of the execution results.</P> <P>The tasks available for execution are of four major categories: <OL> <li>IP Objects including <ol type=i> <li>URL monitoring with returned HTML analysis</li> <li>TCP/IP monitoring (FTP, HTTP, NNTP, SMTP, TELNET protocols)</li> <li>Local or remote components - COM/DCOM monitoring</li> <li>ICMP PING monitoring</li> </ol> </li> <li>WMI objects <ol type=i> <li>Lizard ™ Application Monitor fully supports interface to WMI. With WMI object monitoring including NT Performance counters monitoring capabilities are always unlimited and totally scalable with arrival of new providers.</li> <li>To simplify the operations Lizard ™ Application Monitor provided the function of automatic network discovery automatically searching for all WMI objects on nominated computer)</li> </ol> </li> <li>Trace Log Objects of two types: <ol type=i> <li>Windows NT Event logs monitoring</li> <li>Application log file monitoring</li> </ol> <li>Custom monitoring tasks including specifically designed: <ol type=i> <li>Custom libraries (DLL)</li> <li>Custom scripts (VB or Java)</li> </ol> </li> </ol> <P>Each monitoring task may return either string or set of numeric values – counters. Lizard ™ Application Monitor allows setting alert condition upon the content of returned string or for every individual counter value.</p> <P>In case the alert condition was detected the appropriate notification message is generated to the nominated group of recipients. Message can be delivered through two communication mediums: <ol> <li>SMS notification</li> <li>Email notification</li> </ol></p> <P>Different groups can be notified about the same problem with different delays and frequency thus providing effective alert escalation</p> <P>Operators can manage Lizard ™ Application Monitor through: <ol> <li>Desktop management console</li> <li>Browser based management console</li> </ol>The last option is provided by remote web management application distributed with Lizard ™ Application Monitor package and is installable on any IIS web server having LAN connectivity with Monitor Server. If this web server is exposed to Internet operators can manage the entire monitoring infrastructure from anywhere in the world without any limitations compared to a desktop management console.</p> <P>Results of all executed tasks are accumulated by Lizard ™ Application Monitor in XML performance log files. These files is fundamental source of XML/XSL reporting feature allowing creation of historical and statistical reports of all imaginable formats with the help of XSL transformation. Lizard ™ Application Monitor is offering rich graphic reporting tool utilizing VML reporting charts created using the data collected by XML performance log files. Charts are displayed using browser only capabilities and are available for both: desktop and remote web management methods.</P> <P>Lizard Software provides Network Monitoring Solutions to ensure 24/7 Mission Critical Application Availability. Its major product is the powerful tool for URL monitoring, TCP/IP monitoring, COM/DCOM monitoring, ICMP PING monitoring, NT Event logs monitoring, WMI object monitoring. It is featuring effective alert escalation and keeps nominated stuff aware of problems via SMS notification or email notification. It is extremely flexible due to the ability of using custom monitoring tasks and automatic network discovery features. Valuable data returned by monitoring tasks is collected for XML/XSL reporting and is graphically presented using VML reporting engine.Remote web management</P> <P>Network Monitoring Solutions from Lizard Software ensure 24/7 Mission Critical Application Availability. The major product is the powerful tool for URL monitoring, TCP/IP monitoring, COM/DCOM monitoring, ICMP PING monitoring, NT Event logs monitoring, WMI object monitoring. It is featuring effective alert escalation and keeps nominated stuff aware of problems via SMS notification or email notification. It is extremely flexible due to the ability of using custom monitoring tasks and automatic network discovery features. Valuable data returned by monitoring tasks is collected for XML/XSL reporting and is graphically presented using VML reporting engine.Remote web management</P> </BODY>