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Outsource Hardware Monitoring: Page 2 of 5

During the process, some routers and switches from Alteon WebSystems, Cisco Systems, Extreme Networks and Hewlett-Packard were typed as Hubs or Other assets. When I edited the assets and instigated a rediscovery, the devices reverted back. To view alerts by these devices, you must categorize assets in a category besides Other, which doesn't display faults on its Web dashboard.

Dashboard Data

The SilverBack GUI is a Web interface accessible via Internet Explorer 5.5 or greater browser. When you log into the device, you find an easy-to-navigate Web dashboard, where faults are associated with the appropriate category: network, system or application. In each section, there are four bar graphs providing statistics on total assets by group, performance, security and percentage availability.

Datacenter includes many canned threshold variables for network performance, Cisco devices, server monitoring, Exchange, SQL Server, Active Directory and application monitoring such as POP3 and HTTP. By applying Boolean logic, I set thresholds such as CPU utilization for Cisco routers, POP3 latency and SQL Server transactions per second.

When the threshold hits its peak value over a defined time period, an alert is populated in the Web dashboard under the appropriate section.