Johannesburg, 04 Dec 2012
Synapsys has been appointed SA and sub-Sahara Africa distributor of PC Monitor, the innovative IT monitoring solution by MMSOFT Design.
The PC Monitor solution uses a secure mobile application enabling customers to monitor and manage their entire IT infrastructures from any location and at any time. Mobile devices supported by the solution include Android phones and tablets, iPhones and iPads, Windows phones and the new Windows 8 tablets. Customers can monitor Windows, Linux and Mac operating systems as well as their own .NET and Java applications.
Support for virtual servers under VMware and Hyper-V is included as a standard feature, allowing the monitoring of system health states and heartbeat, as well as starting, pausing and stopping virtual machines and hosts.
The tool also supports popular applications and modules, such MS Exchange, Active Directory, MS SQL Server, and IIS. User-developed custom plug-ins are easily created using the exposed API, allowing custom application and services monitoring and control.
Commenting on the announcement, Peter French, Technical Director at Synapsys, says: "Now, customers in South Africa and ROA can obtain this powerful tool to monitor and manage their IT systems, thereby increasing their effectiveness and enabling better service availability and system integrity.
"PC Monitor offers a complete set of system administrative tools and functionality without connecting via RDP or remote console. From your smartphone, you can drill down into any monitored system to get details on hardware and software status, processes, ports, network, and so on," explains French.
"This powerful tool is very flexible and easily configured to meet specific requirements," adds French. "A very wide range of conditions and states can be monitored, and alerts set for virtually any significant condition. For example, an alert can be sent when a USB device is attached or an application installed or uninstalled," French explains.
From any device, the user can run tasks, execute commands in a terminal, manage running processes and services, check for and apply updates, restart, shut down and wake the computer, to name but a few of the extensive capabilities.
Great attention has been paid to security. Encrypted communication and mobile device authorisation ensures that private infrastructure stays private and unauthorised access is prevented.
PC Monitor Agents are available for Window desktop systems, Windows Server, major Linux distributions, and Mac OS X 10.7 and up. The device dashboards are easily downloaded for free from the online device app stores.
"We're very excited to bring this solution to customers in South Africa and Africa," says Arthur Williamson, managing director at Synapsys. "This is a powerful and easy-to-use solution from MMSOFT that delivers real value to systems managers and administrators responsible for the health of IT systems. It enables them to be more productive in ensuring that business-critical systems remain healthy and continue to deliver business value."
* Synapsys is enabling SA users to test the solution on three monitored systems, for 30 days, at no charge. An annual subscription for commercial users is available. Large organisations can also acquire an on-premise solution. Visit www.pcmonitor.co.za for more information, or contact Synapsys on (0861) 472 580.
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