Mutiny has
announced the release of Mutiny 3.5, the latest version of its
critical services monitor.
Mutiny 3.5 is a
pre-configured hardware appliance that monitors network traffic and
hardware (switches, servers, routers, etc) as well as the processes
and applications that are running on it (Exchange, IIS, SQL, etc).
The company says it is the only SNMP-based critical network
monitoring appliance on the market, designed with ease of use as
the most important feature.
The product
enables real-time monitoring of network interfaces on SNMP-enabled
devices. It provides an instant snapshot of the network bandwidth
utilisation as well as non-intrusive monitoring of the interface
status and any errors.
In common with
other Mutiny monitored properties such as CPU load, memory usage
and disk space, it is possible to set critical and warning
thresholds against interface utilisation so Mutiny can send alerts
(emails and SMS messages) when exceptionally high network traffic
and errors are observed.
On the reporting
side, Mutiny now uses ‘Round-Robin’ databases for the storage of
historical data. These are said to provide high speed access for
the enhanced on-board graphing tools. The event management system
has been completely rewritten to allow much greater control over
the sending of alerts coupled with enhanced transient event
suppression to minimise the sending of false alarms.
The new database
also provides a framework for an add-on, Mutiny Reporting
Appliance, which will be launched later in the year.