                             Network Eagle Monitor
 

VERSION

Release 3.4 build 203 (01/03/2004)

WHAT'S NEW?

Please, see history.txt file or latest news at http://www.network-eagle.com


OVERVIEW

Network Eagle is a network monitoring tool that continuously monitors network
server availability and performance. It is able to monitor state of servers
and various remote services over the network. In case the state of monitored
object has changed, Network Eagle is able to send various notification events
or perform some actions.

With the help of NetEagle you can easily administrate large networks with a lot
of servers and hundreds users. Monitoring and automatic restarting of crucial
network services, notification of your System Administrator Team using e-mail,
pager, SMS alerts, so they can reflect and fix problem immediatly - all these
tasks can be easily resolved with the help of NetEagle application. Using Network
Eagle in corporate network will lead to increasing stability to the work of network
services and as a result you will save your money.


FEATURES

Available Checks:
* Ping check 
* TCP port check 
* FTP check (existence of FTP directory or file) 
* HTTP link existence (availability) check 
* Disk Space check 
* External Command Exit Code Check 
* Database Check (including MS SQL via SQL-DMO).
* User script check (generally VB Script or JScript).
* Check process (either locally or remotely).
* Check NT Service (either locally or remotely).
* NT EventLog messages check (either locally or remotely).

Available alerts and actions: 
* Execute shell command
* Play specified sound
* Send mail
* Log event to SysLog daemon
* Custom Script Execution alert
* Write to NT EventLog
* Restart computer
* Maintain status of NT Service (start/stop/restart).

Additional features:
* Most useful alerts can be configured beforehand and stored in special repository. 
* Advanced logging of all check/alert events (including automatic log rotation support). 
* Separation of checks into groups and flexible groups maintenance. 
* Support of automatic start/stop checking depending on result of other checks.
* Useful statistic information for every check.
* Ability to run as NT Service.
* Support of secure HTTP & SMTP methods of authentication.
* Unique popup log window to notify user about all type of events.


INSTALLATION

To install Network Eagle and make it monitor your servers, please:

If you read this file directly from our Web site:

* Download Network Monitor installation from the download section of
  http://www.network-eagle.com
* Unpack downloaded archive to the temporary directory and start
  installation.


PURCHASE

Now, only online credit card payments available.

* Online credit card purchase

Secure online purchase is available for Visa, MasterCard/Eurocard, American Express
and Diners Club credit card owners. Registration process is controlled by
Share-It secure server and absolutelly safe. To register online, please visit
the following URL:
    http://www.network-eagle.com/buynow.php


SUPPORT

If you will encounter any problems working with Network Eagle, please, contact to our
support team via e-mail support@network-eagle.com, or by using Feedback Form located at the
addresS: http://www.network-eagle.com/feedback.php.

We recommend you to subscribe to our news letters to be in touch with the latest news,
releases and updates of Network Eagle. You can subscribe to our distribution list by
visiting the Subscription Form page at the address:
http://www.network-eagle.com/subscribe.php.

The latest version of Network Eagle manual can be found online in the documentation
section of our site located here: http://www.network-eagle.com/docs/.


USED THIRD-PARTY SOFTWARE

This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project
for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit. (http://www.openssl.org/)

This product includes cryptographic software written by Eric Young
(eay@cryptsoft.com).  This product includes software written by Tim
Hudson (tjh@cryptsoft.com).

License for this software can be found at openssl-license.txt file.