What Is A Monitor?
A Monitor is a rules-driven metric collection, recording and alerting function within the Analyzer. Each monitor is based upon a measurement metric with the ability to filter and narrow the field of observation. For example, a monitor can be defined to observe, collect and alert on application response time for the Microsoft Exchange service focused on a single server for a group of users. A monitor can be as granular as a single user to server conversation for a given application or as coarse as all activity on the network.
You can always travel to locales you own, since it is always in your locale memory. However to travel to a locale you don’t own, you need a way to find it and bring it into your memory. So Schmoozer uses spLandingPad beacons to advertise locales. When you specify the machine name to monitor, Schmoozer will monitor that node for spLandingPad beacons. So if you wanted to join a world Sam has made, you could monitor for spLandingPads on Sam’s computer, and follow his spLandingPad to the locale. Or you could designate a computer to act as a beacon server for Sam and others. Sam would send his spLandingPad to the beacon server and you would monitor for beacons at that same beacon server.
A Monitor is a specific Application, Server, Service or Web URL. The performance of these Applications, Servers and Services are monitored on the basis of metrics like CPU Usage, Response Time etc. Examples of monitors supported are Windows server monitor, WebLogic monitor, Oracle database monitor, service monitor, URL Sequence monitor, Apache monitor etc. For eg., If you want to monitor 100 SQL Server installations in your network, the 100 SQL Servers will be considered as 100 monitors. Consider the Apache web server that is used by www.appmanager.com. This monitor (Apache web server) may have ‘N’ number of performance metrics exposed. For info on what performance metrics you can see for an Apache Monitor, refer Apache Monitoring. The total number of monitors, will include the monitors that we add by default. These default monitors will not be taken into account while calculating the number of monitors for Licensing. For licensing, the server or web server is considered as a Monitor.
