3Ds specialises in providing affordable monitoring & support solutions for
the Windows platform & the underlying software environments they are running.
Through our Sentry-go® range of products, we provide a number of monitoring
solutions designed to meet your needs and budget.
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The Sentry-go Monitoring System is our latest generation monitoring solution. It
can be used in three ways ...
- As one or more pre-configured Quick Monitors, designed for specifically for
out of the box environments such as File/Directory monitoring, SQL Server, IIS,
Exchange or Windows application servers.
- As a plug & play solution, allowing you to combine individual monitoring
components, thus allowing you to configure monitoring to suit your exact needs.
- Or by combining the two, and further enhancing a Quick Monitor with additional
monitoring capabilities and components.
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Sentry-go Quick Monitors
Quick Monitors are available, "out of the box" for many standard environments
and provide the typical monitoring you will need for that environments.
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Quick Monitors are available for the following environments ...
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- Generic Windows application & domain servers
- Microsoft SQL Servers
- Microsoft Exchange Servers
- Microsoft IIS Web Servers
- File & Print Servers
- Print Servers
They are additionally available for the following targeted monitoring ...
- File & Directory monitoring
- Available Disk Space Monitoring
All Sentry-go Quick Monitors come with the Client Console, alerting,
auto-responses, & integrated web server for real-time reporting are provided
free, as standard and at no extra cost.
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Sentry-go Plus! Monitoring Components |
Sentry-go Plus! components are monitoring components that can be used
individually, combined together, or added to a Quick Monitor to provide the
ultimate in monitoring flexibility.
Using components, as your environment grows, so can your monitoring solution!
Simply move components from one monitor to another, or add new ones as you need
them, its that simple!
With Sentry-go, you purchase one or more monitoring components. Other
components, including the monitoring framework & service, Client Console,
alerting, auto-responses, & integrated web server for real-time reporting are
provided free, as standard.
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Monitoring options include ...
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Network access status - check
network access to key TCP/IP resources
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Available Disk Space - verify
sufficient disk space on your drives
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System Performance - monitor
hardware & software performance is within limits
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Windows Services - verify service
status, including auto-restart
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Windows Processes - monitor running
tasks, including auto-restart & termination
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Event Logs & Log Files -
automatically be informed of errors/entries in logs/log files
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Printers & Queues - monitor
queues & jobs, including auto-pause/deletion
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Files & Directories - monitor
file sizes, counts, access, updated, created, deleted etc.
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HTML Content &
Availability - check access to your web sites, ensures
pages correct etc.
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FTP Access &
Availability - automatically emulate an FTP client to
verify access
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Firewall
& TCP/IP port monitoring - monitor the status of the Windows
firewall as well as the availability of well known or custom TCP/IP ports
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E-mail send & receive -
automatically check that e-mails can be sent/received
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Database Query - ensure database
connectivity & optionally key query results
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SQL Server Locking - monitor for
locks & blocking, including auto connection termination
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Scripted Monitoring - plug in your own monitoring scripts and let Sentry-go - plug in your own monitoring scripts and let Sentry-go do the rest!
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Sentry-go Enterprise Option
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The Sentry-go Enterprise Option is an optional component that allows status &
alert information from all your monitors within the environment to be accessed centrally - i.e. across the enterprise.
Using a SQL Server database, monitors subscribe to the self-maintained service which collates the information and allows it to be accessed from any of those monitors using the integrated web server.
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The Sentry-go Enterprise Option gives users the
ability to see & treat all monitors as a whole.
With it, you can view aspects of the entire
enterprise, rather than on a server by server basis
that is normally available.
This is of particular benefit to larger
organisations where multiple Sentry-go monitors are
installed. Web-based reports allow you to ...
- View information from all monitors within a
single report, including alerts, the current
status of monitored checks and overall system
health.
- Drill down to view all aspects of a particular
server.
- Drill down to view all aspects of a particular
monitoring component across servers.
- Spot & analyse trends and common issues
between servers.
- Access monitored information directly from the
server in order to target a specific issue.
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Unlike many other systems, Sentry-go not only monitors, detects and alerts you
when errors occur, it can also help & assist you with problem resolution.
Using auto-responses, you can configure the monitor to take action automatically
in order to resolve a fault - for example ...
- Clear down temporary files to reclaim disk space
- Restart a failed service
- Pause or delete a large print
- Terminate a SQL connection that is blocking others etc.
For more complex issues, the monitoring also links directly to Sentry-go
Solutions!
Sentry-go Solutions! is a web site provided specifically for Sentry-go customers
and takes the information provided by monitor and uses it to search the web for
answers. In most cases, an error message or fault you've encountered will have
been seen by others many times before, so using their discussions & solutions,
you can gain technical information & advice to solve the problem.
By default, Sentry-go
Solutions automatically uses the captured error details to search the web for potential solutions using ...
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Sentry-go Solutions own
knowledgebase
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Microsoft Knowledgebase
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Microsoft Technet
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Microsoft.com
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Google
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Yahoo
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Alternatively, you can provide your own
custom search string to access Alternatively, you can provide your own
custom search string to access other on-line resources.
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Our consultants can design and develop complete Windows or Web-based solutions,
or individual utilities tailored to meet your company’s needs.
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