I'm looking for a tool that can monitor my network servers. It must have built-in checks for website content checking (matching patterns on web sites) and must support custom WMI and ADSI rules, since I want to be able to check group membership (Domain Admins) and hardware. Someone reffered me to ActivXperts Network Monitor. I checked out http;//www.activxperts.com. Who has experience with this product?

Best regards,

Daniel Bruno.

I recommend ActivXperts Network Monitor. Runs as a service on Windows 2000 (and Windows NT) machines. The thing I like about the product is its client program. It can be installed on any Windows NT or higher desktop system, and shows real-time monitoring information, and allows you to add/change monitor rules. WMI and ADSI can be used inside VBScript scripts. About 20 check rules are built-in, but VBScript provides you as many chec rules as you want.
I monitored the engine with the Process Viewer of Win2000 resource kit. This thing is really ,multithreaded, with the processor load spread out over my dual processor system.
Native support for SMTP mail (no IIS required), and native pager support (by using Hayes compatible modem).
Very stable product. Download site: http://www.activxperts.com/activmonitor.

Hi Daniel,

I use ActivXperts Network Monitor. The VBScript option is perfect, you can include any check you want (if you know how to work with VBScript or VBA). I use WMI and ADSI inside these VBScript procedures. WMI (Windows Management Interface) is perfectly suited to check hardware on remote servers and workstations, ADSI is a good tool to check everything that has to do with users and group in a NT/2000 domain.

Try it, I got it from their website (http://www.activxperts.com)

Regards,

Roby