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The other day we found a Vista machine in our network that we could not remotely monitor from the LAN using WMI. But WMI monitoring was working fine on all our other Vista machines…

Finally we discovered that on the specific machine the NOD32 anti virus software was causing the same problems for WMI as we had already seen for SNMP (see my post from July 5th about dysfunctional SNMP on Vista).

As soon as we applied the procedure described in the article from July everything was fine for WMI.

In recent weeks we have received reports about negative PING time measurements (e.g. -5 ms) from users of our monitoring products. “Great”, we thought, “our software has overcome the laws the physics and is able to received network packets before they are actually sent”. But now there are more and more hints showing up around the Internet that we will not receive the Nobel price in physics…

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Today we have released the latest version 5.4.1 of IPCheck Server Monitor. The main new feature is support for five new sensors based on WMI (more…)

European law company Taylor Wessing chose IPCheck Server Monitor after looking closely at the market for monitoring tools. They looked at monitoring companies that charged anything from £12,000 a year just to monitor email up to £120,000 for across the board monitoring. Neither were options. He also considered HP Open View but, due to the length of time required to train personnel on the product and, thereafter, the potential high staff turnover they dismissed it.

Instead they looked for a product that was “simple but very powerful”. The solution was found in Paessler’s IPCheck Server Monitor.

Read more in our latest case study.

The latest beta for IPCheck Server Monitor version 5.4.1 mainly adds two new features: WMI sensors and Vista support.

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Using text-to-speech software in CUSTOM EXE notifications in IPCheck and PRTG you can listen to messages from both programs.

Our latest knowledgebase article shows how to use the software “2nd speech” in conjunction with PRTG and IPCheck.

GameData, Inc. operates various gaming-related Websites such as Counter-Strike.com, a player community site for Counter-Strike, the popular team-based Half-Life online action game series. The game website is an important source of information, downloads and player forums for the gaming community.

They replaced their MRTG program with Paessler’s PRTG Traffic Grapher. The team uses PRTG Traffic Grapher to monitor CPU on all of their servers, bandwidth, RAM and available hard drive space. Additionally, the GameData network team uses Paessler’s IPCheck Server Monitor to keep a close watch on server up time and to alert staff members when servers stop responding.

Read more in our latest case study

Today Paessler officially announced MIB Importer, a free software tool for existing Paessler customers that seamlessly converts proprietary network device Management Information Base (MIB) data into a format that is compatible with Paessler’s PRTG Traffic Grapher and IPCheck Server Monitor applications. This enables administrators to quickly and easily configure SNMP sensors for gathering critical network diagnostic information. By providing a hassle-free solution to monitoring, Paessler allows network administrators more time to focus on strategic initiatives.

Read more in our press release.

Today we have released a new version of IPCheck Server Monitor. This new release is mainly a maintenance version with 8 minor bugfixes, three changes and one new feature: Event Log Sensors can now scan event logs for specific ‘Event IDs’.

Find out more about this new version on IPCheck’s history page and download the new version.

Thanks to the customers that reported the bugs for their input!

A new walkthrough for IPCheck Server Monitor was created by Patrick Hutter from the Paessler Support team and is now available on our website.

The guided tour demonstrates the first steps when creating a monitoring setup with IPCheck Server Monitor: Logging in, creating a group with a frist device and one sensor.

Watch the guided tour