Monitor your Information System (IS)
With LoriotPro, you possess a tool with
the power of a control tower for monitoring your computing resources
that guarantees availability and performance to your users.
Your computing resources, data and
applications, servers, workstations, switches and network routers
all constitute your IS's infrastructure and can be supervised thanks
to the management protocol SNMP, the Internet standard. LoriotPro
takes advantage of this protocol in its smallest details to help
you be effective and accurate in your daily supervising tasks. LoriotPro
does not stop there; it extends its control by using various protocols
such as ICMP and HTTP for WEB server monitoring, for example. Monitoring
is made possible thanks to an optimized use of the Windows graphical
interface as well as Internet browsers. The direct display of your
computing resources and of their performance status in the form
of color-coded icons and alert messages draws your attention to
any fault situations.
Among the possible display modes are:
- Topological display in geographical
maps or state diagrams
- Hierarchical tree display organized
entirely by you
- Filtered display of your most sensitive
and critical resources
- Filtering and display in a list form
of events informing you of changes in state
Administer Your Resources
Monitoring without administration cannot
guarantee the responsiveness you need to maintain a system in production
mode.
LoriotPro facilitates this task by enabling
the administrator to act on the changeable parts of the resources
he handles. Most hardware is configured and maintained either by
direct access or by remote access in Telnet and WEB modes. However,
many configuration changes can be made directly using SNMP and its
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This possibility, which at first glance seems
to bring no added value with respect to standard configuration methods,
takes on a whole new dimension in LoriotPro. LoriotPro's Script
functions let you chain requests and thus automate many repetitive
and tedious tasks. You can, for example, send multiple successive
SNMP requests to a switch and retrieve a list of all active ports,
gather a list of devices running the same Operating System or version,
etc.
Organize the Representation of Your Resources
The complexity of an Information System and/or network administrator's
work is directly related to the number of resources he has to maintain.
Furthermore, in the past few years intentional failures (hackers
and human error) have been added to the hardware and software failures
that administrators must deal with. Given the number of possible
flags or indicators to monitor, the administrator must have an optimized
graphical interface in which the organization and display of resources
are shown in a comprehensive overview. LoriotPro has a hierarchical
tree display for all your resources.
This directory, completely under your control,
allows you to file all your computing resources using a logical
organization that is the best one adapted to your activities and
your internal organization. It also allows you to delegate the monitoring
of part of your resources to third parties without revealing your
entire information system and your tree organization.
This tree is your workspace for configuring your resources. If you
decide, for example, to set up a particular monitoring flag such
as the volume of exchanges of a network interface on one of your
servers, it is in the tree on the server to be monitored that you
assign a task responsible for that monitoring. Seconds after you
set up the flag, you can display it in a graphic.
Finding a particular resource object, a workstation for example,
among hundreds of workstations that make up your information system
could quickly become a difficult task. With a multi-criteria search
engine LoriotPro pinpoints and moves you to the object in the directory
you wanted to find. Criteria can be technical (the IP address of
the host) but also organizational (the room and plug number where
your PC is connected).
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