FAQs on server monitoring

MonitorUrs doesn't have any specific requirements for server monitoring. Servers are included in MonitorUrs's regular device-based license. You can monitor unlimited metrics for each server in your license, including uptime, performance, hardware and the connected interfaces. To discover, identify, classify and monitor servers, MonitorUrs uses network protocols like:

• SNMP
• WMI
• CLI
• PrismAPI

MonitorUrs lets you set up monitoring intervals ranging from 30 seconds to one hour or more for your devices. Depending on the criticality of the server, you can choose the right interval. For instance, a server hosting a user-facing service that requires high availability can be monitored at 30-second intervals, giving you a better chance to detect issues faster.

Keep in mind that smaller intervals increase the load on MonitorUrs's monitoring server, so too many low intervals can impact performance. MonitorUrs also offers an option to track specific metrics at 1-second intervals — these real-time heart-beat monitors can be added to dashboards to track mission-critical resources.

After discovering your devices, MonitorUrs classifies them and creates a list of dedicated performance metrics based on the type of server and the vendor. You enable monitoring for these metrics in bulk from a device template list, or individually from the device's dedicated snapshot page.

Once enabled, you can set up alarm thresholds. Based on the type of metric, you can set up various threshold conditions (greater than, lesser than, equal to, etc.). There are three levels of alarm severity for which you can set thresholds:

• Attention
• Trouble
• Critical

You also have a rearm value that can be used to reset an alarm as clear.

MonitorUrs uses machine learning to automate the process of setting up alarms for various performance metrics. Adaptive thresholds use algorithms to predict the normal or expected value for each metric. This value is then set as the threshold for each metric and updated automatically every hour.

Adaptive thresholds need up to 14 days of prior performance data to set alarms accurately, and as data collection continues the accuracy increases. Given enough training data and time, adaptive thresholds can reach an accuracy of up to 90–95%.

When it comes to servers, MonitorUrs can also monitor things like:

• Files and folders — metrics like folder/file size, age, existence and the presence of specific strings within files.
• URLs — track availability and check for specific strings.

You can also create custom scripts using Perl, VBScript, PowerShell, Shell script and more to monitor specific metrics from your server devices.

Rack views and datacenter floor views are server visualization tools used to track the location, uptime and health of datacenter servers. A rack view is a simulation of a server rack in which you can drag and drop server devices. Once racks are built, you can add them to a datacenter floor view, along with other elements like walls and walkways.

The result is a visualization of your datacenter where each server can be tracked with a number on the rack and an alphanumeric grid on the floor, so you can direct a technician to the exact location of a specific server. These floor views can be rendered in 2D or 3D.

MonitorUrs is a versatile server monitoring tool offering extensive monitoring features.

• For home servers — you can use MonitorUrs's standard or free edition to track uptime and basic performance metrics like CPU and memory.
• For datacenter servers — you can use MonitorUrs's professional or enterprise edition to ensure 99.999% availability, fault resilience and automated remediation.

You get visibility into server infrastructure, hardware, hosted VMs, application performance and service-delivery architectures from the network end to the application end.

MonitorUrs is preferred by IT admins around the world for its simplicity, extensive feature offering and affordable pricing. MonitorUrs monitors 300+ dedicated performance metrics for 130+ server vendors, including physical and virtual servers, domain controllers, Exchange servers, MS SQL and more. Monitoring and licensing is intuitive and has little to no learning curve.

Most importantly, MonitorUrs's server monitoring features are included with its network performance monitoring feature sets and don't require additional licensing. This makes server monitoring with MonitorUrs extremely cost-effective compared to other tools.