New features in GFi Network Server Monitor 6

• Totally new configuration interface: Both easier and more powerful, supports multiple selection, copy-paste, drag-and-drop operations
• Folders with property inheritance: Properties such as target computer, credentials, maintenance times, dependencies, actions and more, are configurable at a folder level and will by default be inherited by the checks contained in that folder. This makes check maintenance much easier
• Extensive Linux/Unix support: GFI Network Server Monitor can monitor Linux machines via its in-built checks and via SSH scripts
• Create new monitoring check wizard: This can create the same monitoring check applicable to more than one computer in a single step
• Create batch of monitoring checks wizard: Given one or more target computers, with some details on their operating system as well as their role in the network, this will create a set of default monitoring checks for those computers
• Accommodates employee shifts: GFI Network Server Monitor can notify different people depending on the time at which the check is triggered
• Improved engine which supports a larger number of monitoring checks without effecting performance and resource usage
• Support for multiple mail servers: Create a list of mail servers to use so that if your primary mail server is inactive, a second/third backup mail server is used to send out the email notifications
• Support for users and groups for notifications and alerts: Properties of users and groups are now separate from the monitoring checks, making it easier to change user properties
• Improved all existing checks to support more parameters: For example, you can now monitor for the memory usage or number of handles used by a process
• Status monitor integrated in configuration UI
• New report layouts and explanations, making it easier to understand the overall situation of your network
• Integration of a number of useful network tools: Enumerate Computers, Enumerate Processes - local and remote, DNS Lookup, Whois, Traceroute, SNMP Audit, SNMP Walk
• Ability to create your own network monitoring reports using MS SQL Reporting Services or Crystal Reports
• Support for usage of alternative credentials for more checks - improves monitoring range

New Checks

• Checks whether Terminal Services are running by physical logon: The best way to check if it is still working is by a physical logon/logoff operation on the server
• Performance Counter Checks: It can monitor any internal operating system counter which is accessible through perfmon.msc, including counters used by SQL Server and MSMQ
• Command line file execution with output parsing for specific string: Run a command line tool and parse its output, if a particular match is met then trigger - for example, by using the tool defrag.exe, you can analyze its output for the string "You should defragment this volume" to be notified when it is time to defrag. This check is also very useful to process output from your own custom operational scripts like backups and maintenance procedures
• Linux: File existence
• Linux: CPU usage
• Linux: Folder size
• Linux: File size
• Linux: Printer availability
• Linux: Process running
• Linux: Users and groups membership
• Linux: Disk partition check
• Linux: Disk space
• Linux: Daemon running/stopped check
• Improved FTP check: Previously only checked for the existence of an open port, now a physical FTP login connection is made using authentication
• DNS Server now allows for the monitoring of 19 record types
• Parameter passing to vbscript-based checks has been improved by allowing a larger number of parameters to be passed to the script from the monitoring engine, including username and password used to connect to the target machine
• Improved Exchange Server 2000 and 2003 checks
• Improved ISA Server 2000 and 2003 checks

Source: KBID002284