Network Server Suite

Overview

This guide covers the configuration of Network Server Suite and component use. For installation guidance, please refer to the Installation Guide. For further queries and assistance, please refer to the support section at https://support.fortra.com/.

As there are a variety of installation options according to what you want to monitor, your network size, configuration and physical location, we recommend you review the function of each of the products and plan on which of your networked machines you wish to install specific products to meet your particular monitoring requirements.

At the simplest level, all Network Server Suite products can be installed onto one machine as detailed in the Installation Guide.

However, this assumes that the machine onto which the products are installed is the only machine to be monitored. In practice, multiple machines, possibly sited in different geographical locations, will require monitoring.

Network Server Suite products have been designed to simplify the task of dealing with a large number of error messages, and alerts and enable you to identify and handle critical problems easily. Multiple systems can be graphically displayed on a single screen, in an easy-to-read format. Administrators and operators can view and respond to events directly from any machine the on which the Enterprise Console is installed.

The suite also contains additional tools to help ensure that all systems are working correctly. For instance, a series of monitors, including the Ping Monitor, can periodically verify that a particular system is available, raising an alert if not.

Inquiry and informational messages are viewed and responded to directly from the Enterprise Console and other types of messages can be acknowledged.

Other alerts, displayed automatically, include TCP/IP connectivity problems, performance problems (resource hungry jobs or capacity thresholds exceeded).