I installed the Advanced View software on my laptop to configure, monitor and maintain the WallBotz (see screen, above). The necessary JRE (Java Runtime Environment) 1.4.1_01 with online, context-sensitive documentation is installed automatically using approximately 53 MB of disk space. These write-once/run-anywhere applications are great unless you happen to have critical business applications wed to an earlier JRE. Divorce may not be an option.
Alarming Alerts
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Modular and expandable design
Supports SSL and wireless via 802.11b Supports NAT and proxy server (HTTP, SOCKS v4, v5) Bad
Advanced View software not backward compatible with WallBotz 400 WallBotz 500, $2,699. NetBotz, (877) 908-2689, (512) 439-5800. www.NetBotz.com More Management Resouces books |
Alert-notification capabilities have improved since we tested WallBotz 400. The 500 version adds an SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) interface and lets you specify primary and backup servers to send alerts and periodic reports. The new model also lets you set up multiple thresholds per sensor with various types of alerts and severities--information, warning, error, critical and failure. You can set multiple alert actions for when these thresholds are exceeded, allowing for a variety of alert profiles that can escalate alarms to more advanced support teams when the alerts go unanswered for a specified period of time.
Alerts can be sent to users via e-mail, FTP, SNMP, HTTP Post or text message to a cell phone. New to version 500 is an audible error message--a computer voice that identifies the alert and the sensor that initiated it--that can be sent to the server-room floor.
Because the base station can be expanded with up to four camera pods and 16 sensor pods, you might consider monitoring out of the server room. Although the WallBotz 500 is more expensive than previous versions, its modularity and flexibility make it a physical monitoring device to reckon with.
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