10-Strike Network Monitor is a network device status monitor, which allows you to obtain online data on the time a device becomes available and the time it goes out, and thus ensure a prompt response to various events.
The program's functionality is based on periodic polling of devices available on the map by sending them an ICMP packet (ping), attempting to connect to the required TCP port over the network, checking a database, etc. Depending on the result that function has returned, the device being polled obtains a corresponding status. If the check is successfull its color is displayed green; if failed it appears in red.
User may set up the program's response to particular events (device on/off). Those may include: displaying a predefined message, playing a sound file, running external programs and commands with parameters, placing a record to log, sending a short message (SMS) to a mobile phone, sending an e-mail message, restarting/shutting down a service or a computer.
Yet another advantage of the application is that it has a powerful network scanner that allows finding the greatest possible number of hosts and placing them to the monitoring list quickly. At the same time, certain default checks will be added to the hosts automatically.
Employing 10-Strike Network Monitor makes it essentially easier to monitor processes in networks of any ranges or sizes. Managing network processes becomes a lot easier because of the opportunity to link external applications such as file managers or remote administration software to the program.
10-Strike Network Monitor offers two ways for creating the monitoring list. The first one is automatic. The application, according to user-defined IP ranges and scanning methods, finds networked devices. Available searches include: pinging over ICMP, scanning specified TCP ports and attempting to convert IP addresses to MAC addresses (ARP). The application runs multiple simultaneous threads to search for devices within specified address range. The application can find devices with active SNMP agents: switches, network printers, routers, etc.
The second method is manual. The application allows creating nested group-folders, adding hosts with specified names or addresses to them. Using the mouse pointer, you can easily move hosts from one folder to another, thus drawing the logical structure of the network.
All changes in the host list and their check parameters are automatically saved to file and passed on to the server part of the application, and that allows putting them into action immediately.