Monitor your system for free

Hi, I would like to introduce you a very nice system monitoring solution called
Polymon. Polymon is an easy to use software that made up of three primary components:

• A SQL Server database to store monitor statuses, alerts and general settings.


• A windows service (PolyMon Executive) that runs monitors on a periodic basis,
  logs results to the database and sends out email notifications.


• A management/monitoring front-end (PolyMon Manager) that is used to manage
  general settings, monitor definitions, operators, alert rules, etc. and analyze
  historical trends (both monitor counters and statuses).

To start using this tool you have to download the latest setup file from polymon.codeplex.com setup the configuration of the software during the installation wizard and then start define the monitors that you need, then you have to set your email notifications settings, i also use one of the email to sms tools and now i get system alerts to my cell phone, i'll show here this monitors:

• Disk Monitor - use this monitor type in case that you want to monitor the remaining free space in your system


• File Monitor - use this monitor type in case that you want to monitor the files count on specific directory


• MSMQ Monitor - use this monitor type in case that you want to monitor the msmq messaging service, for example, the total messages count in all the queues in the system


• Ping Monitor - use this monitor type in case that you want to monitor the system health by a ping request


• SQL Monitor - use this monitor type in case that you want to monitor your sql server datatbase by a structed query


• Service Monitor - use this monitor type in case that you want to monitor your window service and check if it is still running


• URL Monitor - use this monitor type in case that you want to monitor the a url and to make a content check on its response

Disk Monitor:

After you have selected Disk Monitor as the type of your monitor
you have to:

1. Select the hard disk drive to monitor


2. Set the free space remining for the warning message


3. Set the free space remining for the failed message

File Monitor:

After you have selected File Monitor as the type of your monitor
you have to:

1. Select the target directory to monitor


2. Set the search filter, probably it will be *.[file_extension]


3. Set the file count for the warning message


4. Set the file count for the failed message

MSMQ Monitor:

After you have selected Performence Monitor as the type of your monitor
and select MSMQ Service as the category and select Total messages in all queues as the counter, then you have to:

1. Set the number of messages for the warning message


2. Set the number of messages for the failed message

Ping Monitor:

After you have selected Ping Monitor as the type of your monitor
you have to:

1. Set the ip as the destination of the ping request


2. Set the number of tries and the number of failures


3. Set the timeout for the request

SQL Monitor:

After you have selected SQL Monitor as the type of your monitor
and wrote a stored procedure in this format you have to:

1. Set the connection string in setting xml


2. Set the stored procedure name in setting xml

Service Monitor:

After you have selected Service Monitor as the type of your monitor
you have to:

1. Set the host where the service is running


2. Set the service name to monitor

URL Monitor:

After you have selected URL Monitor as the type of your monitor
you have to:

1. Set url to monitor


2. Set the request timeout


3. Set the content to check on the response text