Missouri Features and Benefits
QW Enterprise, LLC’s flagship product is called “Missouri System Monitoring and Baselines”. It is software designed to dynamically monitor and manage windows servers and internet websites. Remote monitoring of IT systems is the cornerstone of a managed IT infrastructure. The design of Missouri embraces this principle and delivers data in an intuitive dashboard interface to allow key performance indicators and data from each feature set to be easily visualized and analyzed.
The product has the following major benefits:
| No server agent required | Agents, software components installed on the server for monitoring, can have a negative impact on your server's stability and performance. Third-party agents are often plagued with memory leaks or compatibility issues that could threaten the availability of a server or the services it provides. As such, Missouri does not provide an agent for installation on a monitored server. The package remotely leverages the native technologies and components that Microsoft packages with each OS. |
| Auto-Detection | Forgetting to update the monitoring software to reflect the current configuration of the infrastructure can lead to unplanned downtime. The auto detection of new servers and components helps to mitigate risk and lower administration costs. |
| Service States | Many server applications run in the form of a windows service. Missouri automatically detects, catalogs, and monitors all windows services in the forest. If a new service is installed on any monitored server, the software will automatically detect its existence and add it to the monitored list without user intervention. |
| Web Site Monitoring | Websites are monitored for performance and availability. Missouri takes site monitoring to the next step, by also cataloging and monitoring all first level links on the monitored page without user intervention.
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| Active Directory Aware | Windows uses a technology called “Active Directory” as central database of all computers. Often packages are not active directory aware, and the labor and cost associated with initial configuration is high. Missouri takes advantage of this technology and minimizes the initial and on-going configuration by dynamically finding and monitoring computers and objects in the forest. |
| Logging | Logs provide a historical look into the occurrence of threshold violations, state changes, and errors to provide insight into the past health of systems within the infrastructure
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| Baseline Graphs | Graphs and charts of short and long-term data provide a quick glance visual depiction of system performance. |
| Analysis | Built-in Data analysis algorithms aid in the interpretation of trends. Analysis lends itself to proactive management by predicting faults before they occur.
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| Web Based GUI | In the age of the internet, the web browser reigns supreme as the tool of choice for viewing and managing data. Solutions that requires client tools don’t lend themselves to the anytime anywhere monitoring philosophy. |
| Dashboard | A dashboard interface provides a quick glance at Key Performance Indicators. This is in direct contradiction to the typical monitoring systems that require the end-user navigate deep menu structures to reveal data.
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| Reporting | Web based reports to summarize threshold violations, trends, and data. |
| Email Alerting | Reports, logs, and alerts can be delivered via email.
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| Long-Term Data | To be effective in capacity management and availability management the monitoring solution must provide long term data to aid in the evaluation of the Infrastructure. Missouri has been designed to store 12 months of statistical data for this purpose. |
| File Pruning | Log files and backup jobs often grow infinitely. Left unmanaged, the files can accumulate and excessively consuming disk space and lead to service disruption. This feature allows files to be prune based on age, backup status or both. This service can be used in conjunction with the applications native pruning algorithms. This feature can be used for but is not limited to IIS Log files, SQL maintenance plans directories, SMTP bad-mail directories.
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| Site License |
Missouri System Monitoring can install on multiple machines within the organization. This allows for redundant monitoring. Often, monitoring solutions have strict licensing requirements that prohibit the installation of the software on more than one machine. The need for redundancy and load balancing should not be expressed as dual license requirement, but as an added value of the solution. |