Now one copy of the software running on an average office computer can monitor some 2,000 network resources. With more recent hardware IPHost Network Monitor can support up to 5,000 monitored items depending on a monitoring system configuration.

Novosibirsk, Russia -- (SBWIRE) -- 07/14/2011 -- IPHostMonitor Inc. announces the performance update of IPHost Network Monitor 3.1, a reliable distributed network monitoring tool that supports the performance and uptime monitoring of Windows and Unix/Linux servers and workstations, web applications and websites, various servers and services. Updated IPHost Network Monitor can support monitoring of 2,000 network resources (monitors) with average hardware and up to 5,000 monitored resources with more recent hardware. The performance of all parts of the monitoring tool has improved, including the console application and web interface.

With the help of Remote Network Agents IPHost Network Monitor can check the resources in multiple networks from one point. Remote Network Agents are an indispensable part of a monitoring solution for companies with several networks to monitor and for managed service providers (MSP) that need to monitor their customers' networks and servers. IPHost Network Monitor provides an out of the box solution for MSPs to monitor dozens of customer networks from a single central site. IP services, Unix/Linux and Windows server infrastructure, firewalls, routers and LANs can be monitored from a single monitoring point.

The ability to simultaneously monitor up to 5,000 network resources in multiple networks makes IPHost Network Monitor a tool of choice for a wide range of business users starting from the SMB market to enterprises with multiple branches and MSPs (Managed Service Providers).

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Novosibirsk, Novosibirsk Region -- (SBWIRE) --06/24/2011 -- Web Transaction Monitor is designed for end-to-end monitoring of web applications and e-commerce sitesmonitoring of web applications and e-commerce sites such as internet shops. The tool simulates the steps of real user activity so it is able to monitor what's up with the real user experience of an online shop or enterprise web application. The tool notifies interested persons (by email, SMS, instant messenger) if performance becomes unacceptable or downtime occurs.

Web application uptime and performance monitoring is an essential task for each business that relies on web applications in its everyday activity. For internet companies web site performance plays a vital role in business success. Poor page load time leads to a site visitor's inadequate experience, which means loss of sales for an e-commerce site or a waste of resources for corporate productivity web applications. Even a small outage can lead to substantial losses so businesses should do their best to avoid outages or to minimize negative impacts by a timely reaction to problems.

Web Transaction Monitor (WTM) provides web site owners and webmasters with a tool to monitor web application performance and uptime.

An aspect that sets WTM apart from most of traditional web monitoring tools is the real time monitoring of whole transactions such as the entire checkout process for an e-commerce site, user login and search function usage for a productivity web application instead of just monitoring uptime and page load time.

WTM eliminates the occurrence of false uptime results. The webmaster can be sure that a web application functions properly from the end-user perspective when it is monitored by Web Transaction Monitor because each poll reiterates the steps of an actual web site visitor in the browser. Traditional web site monitoring tools often can't do enough to detect malfunctions in database or application servers.

A WTM user need not be an expert in monitoring and web applications to create a meaningful web transaction monitor. The browser-based recorder allows creating a monitor by simply navigating through the web pages which use the functionality that should be monitored. The Replay function provides a way to visually check that web transaction recording goes flawlessly and the resulting monitor will work correctly. This function is extremely helpful when a performance or availability problem occurs in a web application; replaying the same request sequence helps to understand which steps are OK and which are not as well as validating the fixes made to restore operability.

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IPHostNonitor Inc. informs that every customer buying IPHost Network Monitor from May till September can receive extended support for a year free of charge.

Novosibirsk, Novosibirsk region -- (SBWIRE) --05/19/2011 -- IPHostNonitor Inc. announces that every customer that purchases IPHost Network Monitor from May till September, 2011, can request a one-year extended support including help in introduction of network and server monitoring software into company's business processes -- free of charge. Offer includes consulting and assistance in setting up and tuning monitoring of network hardware and applications.

Practical experience proves that even small and medium companies using common set of server software do require operational network monitoring for their IT infrastructure. Both small and big businesses need reliability, since it helps to save money.

Every IT manager knows that it is less expensive to prevent network or server malfunction, rather than handle the problems having already happened. Network servers and devices monitoring allows to get alerted in advance, to predict and prevent network problems.

IPHost Network Monitor supports various monitoring methods and extensive set of alerting means (email, SMS, etc.) to inform of any changes in network state. The product is quite affordable and, most importantly, is efficient in handling network and server monitoring tasks.

Long-term practices of using monitoring software by our customers demonstrate that stage of implementation of monitoring solution is non-trivial, the following issues being most common (regardless of exact product used for monitoring):

- the choice of objects to monitor isn't simple. To maintain due level of security, all the network devices used (i.e., firewalls, routers, VPN devices, wireless access points) on the intranet boundary (i.e. network security perimeter), all the servers keeping information and applications requiring restricted access and/or data integrity - all those must be under constant control. To ensure business processes stability, all the devices requiring fail-proof operation should be monitored.

- the task of setting up acceptable availability and performance levels can be tricky. The optimal setup assumes administrator receives alerts on significant events but not on insignificant ones. Inadequate settings may lead to flooding administrator with alerts or to loss of control of network status. When there are too many alerts of insignificant events, important ones can get unnoticed. In addition, performance and availability levels sufficient for one server or business may be insufficient for the other.

Network monitoring solution introduction stage can take quite a long time and requires special knowledge and experience in various network administration areas: network devices, servers, databases, mail, web and other network applications. Our support team will assist in introduction of IPHost Network Monitor software in customer's network; will help to set it up to handle all the routine monitoring tasks efficiently - free of charge.

Our offer includes:

- assistance in monitoring setup (we have deep knowledge of how to use the program's features);

- consulting from our specialists on network monitoring;

- one year of technical support and software maintenance (upgrades), this is enough to have the software to merge seamlessly with business process.

With this offer, IPHost Network Monitor customers are able, with the help of our support and consulting, to launch a full-scale network hardware and software monitoring processes in an organization -- fast and at affordable cost.

About IPHost Network Monitor
IPHost Network Monitor helps network administrators ensure trouble-free operation and smooth performance of local and wide area network resources of a company. It supports a variety of monitoring methods from basic connectivity checks (PING, TCP, UDP) to SNMP and WMI operations, and can continuously monitor the performance of web pages, scripts and applications, remote databases, web and mail services, and so on. IPHost Network Monitor can execute a remote script or binary application via SSH. The ability to record and simulate real user activity (Web Transaction Monitor) allows ensuring trouble-free operation of complex web sites, social networks, applications, web storefronts and e-commerce sites.

The Remote Network Agent feature in IPHost Network Monitor allows administrators to monitor resources located in multiple remote LANs from one point. With the help of Remote Network Agents administrators can seamlessly monitor all types of resources just as if they were located in the same network.

In case of performance bottlenecks or downtimes, IPHost Network Monitor alerts network administrators via one or more notification methods, and can attempt to automatically resolve the issue by executing a pre-defined script or binary on the affected server.

The network monitoring tool can send an email or a text message (SMS) on a mobile phone, or post an instant notification to ICQ, Jabber, or AOL IM messengers.

Pricing and Availability

Prices start at $99 for Basic Edition with up to 50 monitors, to $649 for Professional Edition with an unlimited number of monitors. The SMS via GSM modem alerts add-on is priced at $99. The Web Transaction monitor add-on is available in 5-monitor packs priced at $199, the option with an unlimited number of Web Transaction Monitors allowed is priced at $499. Prices for Remote Network Agents are in range $30-$75 per agent depending on the number of agents purchased.

IPHostMonitor offers a free evaluation demo of its distributed network monitoring software at http://www.iphostmonitor.com/

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IPHost Network Monitor v3.1 has been released. Web Transaction monitor enhanced functionality, SNMP Traps for real-time alerting have been introduced.

Novosibirsk, Novosibirsk region -- (SBWIRE) -- 04/18/2011 -- IPHostMonitor Inc. announces a new version (v3.1) of IPHost Network Monitor http://iphostmonitor.com available immediately for download.

This piece of software can be used for constant administration of IT systems, prompt detection and quick disposing of various flaws and faults in IT infrastructure. Most notable improvements introduced in the new version include Web Transaction monitor enhanced functionality, SNMP Traps for real-time alerting, and a number of enhancements requested by IPHost Network Monitor users.

Web Transaction Monitoring simulates human user's actions and therefore is widely used by Web administrators and site owners to monitor availability and consistency of Web resources: corporate sites, e-shops and all the other kind of sites in existence. This function is also useful to control intranet resources, such as corporate portals - to make sure the resources are available through a Web interface.

Hosting providers, Web studios can also benefit from this monitor, to ensure their customers' sites are available 24/7, to reduce possible downtime and provide all the required functionality. The new version of IPHost Network Monitor enriches playback functionality of recorded Web Transaction Monitors scenarios. Also, ASP.NET-based applications monitoring problem, reported some time ago, has been fixed.

SNMP Traps is a new type of monitoring provided by IPHost Network Monitor. In short: it's an additional method of receiving immediate notifications about changes in state on the device being monitored. Its primary difference is it doesn't use regular polling and thus is the optimal tool to receive important notifications without delay, as soon as possible.

SNMP Traps are mostly used to control network switches, hubs, routers and all the other types of computer networking devices.

Along with the functions mentioned above, IPHost Network Monitor includes other useful system administrator tools, such as monitoring Web sites, mail servers, database servers and the other types of devices and services available on the net. Advanced alerting and notification features make it possible to detect upcoming problems in 24/7 mode, thus allowing to prevent possible faults of hardware and software components, including networking facilities, saving valuable time and other resources.

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This release introduces Remote Network Agents, allowing IPHost Network Monitor to track hundreds servers in separate networks from a single point. Remote Network Agents may be used with SNMP, WMI, HTTP, Oracle, PING and many other protocols.

Novosibirsk, Russia -- (SBWIRE) -- 09/01/2010 -- IPHostMonitor Inc. announces the release of IPHost Network Monitor 3.0, a robust distributed network monitoring system that monitors the performance and availability of Windows and Unix/Linux servers and workstations, various applications, services and Web resources. The new release adds Remote Network Agents, a feature allowing administrators to simultaneously monitor servers and workstations on multiple remote local area networks.

Installed on a single server or a workstation connected to a local area network, Remote Network Agents can automatically discover and monitor all types of supported resources on that network, reporting back to the main IPHost Network Monitor installation via an SSL secured connection. For increased security, IPHost Network Monitor supports active and passive monitoring agents, allowing administrators to choose which ports and where will be opened.

Remote Network Agents is a vital part of the monitoring solution for companies with several networks to monitor and for Managed Service Providers (MSPs) that need to monitor their customers' networks and servers. IPHost Network Monitor provides an out of the box solution for MSP to monitor dozens or even hundreds of customer networks from a single central site. IP services, Unix/Linux and Windows server infrastructure, firewalls, routers and LANs can be monitored from a single monitoring point.

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New add-on for IPHost Network Monitor, popular server and network monitoring software, is available. The add-on allows sending SMS (text message) alerts via GSM modem or phone attached to a monitoring server.

Novosibirsk, Russia -- (SBWIRE) -- 04/22/2010 -- IPHostMonitor Inc, has announced today the availability of a new add-on tool for IPHost Network Monitor – SMS (text message) via GSM modem/phone alert, that allows sending notifications as SMS using GSM modem or phone attached to a monitoring server. This add-on provides a most reliable alerting mechanism for sending notifications when performance of monitored server or application becomes unacceptable or it is completely inaccessible. SMS via GSM modem alert is the latest addition to the extensive alerting system of IPHost Network Monitor, it supports alerting by email, instant messengers (Jabber, Google Talk, ICQ, AOL), SMS over email, audio and visual alerts, also system can be set to execute program or run script over SSH (on monitoring server or on remote computer), or manage network equipment using SNMP SET command.

Reliability of problem notifications delivery mechanism is especially important for monitoring of business critical applications and services. Even a small outage in business critical application availability can lead to substantial losses so businesses should do their best to avoid outages or to minimize negative impacts by a timely reaction to the problems and notifications by SMS helps to do the job. SMS alert template includes a link to summary report and mobile version of IPHost Network Monitor web interface allows taking a look at reports and logs then start recovery actions. Secondary modem/phone can be used to increase alerts delivery reliability even further. SMS alerts can be sent to several phone numbers at the same time.

Growing number of businesses now rely on web applications and services, many companies move a part of their business to the web. IPHost Network Monitor provides a complete solution for e-commerce sites and web applications monitoring. Availability and performance characteristics of individual web pages or complex web transactions that simulate a behavior of a real user can be monitored. By simulating real-user experience, this web application monitoring tool provides realistic results reflecting what end-users are experiencing when performing any type of e-commerce transaction on a website. For internet companies whose core business is provided by web applications and services the monitoring of such applications is a vital part of their business operations.

With IPHost Network Monitor user need not be an expert in monitoring and web applications to create a meaningful web transaction monitor. The web transaction recorder (which looks and acts like a web browser) lets create a monitor by simply navigating through the web pages. The 'replay' function enables visual check of recorded web transaction to make sure that resulting monitor will work correctly. Replay is extremely helpful when application faces performance or availability problems; replaying helps to understand on which step application fails.

About IPHost Network Monitor
IPHost Network Monitor is a cost-effective, easy-to-use network, server and application monitoring tool specifically designed for small- and medium-sized businesses with up to several hundred monitored devices and systems. IPHost Network Monitor capabilities are much broader than web monitoring. With IPHost Network Monitor you can monitor both Windows and UNIX based networks (SNMP and WMI), mail servers (SMTP, POP3, IMAP), database servers (Oracle, MySQL, MS SQL Server or via ODBC), more than 20 monitoring methods supported plus custom monitors. The advanced alerting system provides timely notifications using several means such as e-mail, SMS, and instant messengers; the system is also able to execute correcting actions locally or remotely via SSH. Reporting and graphs are available through a web interface.

Pricing and Availability
IPHost Network Monitor is designed for Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7 and Server 2003/2008. The 30-day trial version with the full set of features limited to 20 monitors can be downloaded at http://www.iphostmonitor.com/iphostmonitor.exe. The program prices start at USD $99 for the license allowing 50 monitors and a limited set of features, the Professional edition with the full set of features and an unlimited number of monitors is priced at USD $649. Each license includes the Maintenance&Support contract for one year for free. The SMS via GSM modem alerts add-on is priced at $99. The Web Transactionmonitor add-on is available in 5-monitor packs priced at $199, the option with an unlimited number of Web Transaction monitors allowed is priced at $499.

Publisher & Editorial Information:
IT reviewers are encouraged to use this press release and any other related materials. We will be pleased to grant you a free registration key. If you do not consider electronically distributed software, please e-mail us with the details of your postal address and we will send you a jewel case. Cover media editors are authorized to include the 30-day trial version of IPHost Network Monitor 2.1 in their CD/DVD-ROMs.

Alexander Grasmick
grasmick@iphostmonitor.com
Product Marketing Manager
Tel: +7 913 797 2768

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Novosibirsk, Russia -- (SBWIRE) -- 12/21/2009 -- IPHostMonitor Inc, has announced today the availability of a new add-on tool for IPHost Network Monitor – the Web Transaction monitor http://www.iphostmonitor.com that allows end-to-end monitoring of web applications and e-commerce sites such as internet shops, by simulating the steps of real user activity so the tool lets users to monitor constantly real user experience to be sure an online shop or enterprise web application performs well. The tool notifies an administrator if performance becomes unacceptable.

Availability and performance monitoring of web applications is an essential task for each business that relies on web applications in its everyday activity. For internet companies whose core business is provided by web applications and services the monitoring of such applications is a vital part of their business operations. Even a small outage can lead to substantial losses so businesses should do their best to avoid outages or to minimize negative impacts by a timely reaction to the problems.

The Web Transaction monitor provides businesses with a tool to monitor web application availability and performance. The Web transaction monitor lets them ensure that web applications and services are functioning properly and deliver acceptable performance from the end-user perspective. By simulating real-user experience, this web application monitoring tool provides realistic results reflecting what end-users are experiencing when performing any type of e-business transaction on a website.

Typical web transactions are customer logins, navigation through a product catalog, products search, order fulfillment, submitting different types of web forms, and other user interactions with a website or web application. The Web Transaction monitor add-on for IPHost Network Monitor supports monitoring of the functionality listed above. It can check pages with a dynamically generated content (product catalog); page request parameters can also be dynamic (generated by a server session or specified by the user), it supports form submission, logging into a web application or e-commerce site, admin panel actions, and so on.

Administrator can check whether a specified text string appears or does not appear on some page every time this monitor runs. For instance, it's possible to check for the string 'Welcome, John Smith' to be sure the login has been successful. Users can set performance thresholds to be notified if web application performance from the site visitor perspective becomes unacceptable. These early warning notifications help you to prevent more serious problems that can lead to system outages and big losses.

It's not required to be an expert in monitoring and web applications to create a meaningful web transaction monitor. The Web transaction recorder (which looks and acts like a web browser) lets you create a monitor by simply navigating through the web pages using the functionality that should be monitored. The Replay function provides user with the ability to visually check that web transaction recording goes flawlessly and the resulting monitor works correctly. This function is extremely helpful when if a performance or availability problems with an application have been received; replaying the same request sequence in the recorder helps users to understand what steps are OK and what are not, as well as to validate the fixes an administrator might have made to restore the operability of the application.

About IPHost Network Monitor

IPHost Network Monitor is a cost-effective, easy-to-use network, server and application monitoring tool specifically designed for small- and medium-sized businesses with up to several hundred monitored devices and systems. With IPHost Network Monitor it's possible to monitor both Windows and Unix based networks, various servers and network equipment, availability and performance characteristics of web and other applications. The advanced alerting system provides timely notifications using several means such as e-mail, SMS, and instant messengers; the system is also able to execute correcting actions locally or remotely via SSH. Reporting and graphs are available through a web interface.

Pricing and Availability

IPHost Network Monitor is designed for Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7 and Server 2003/2008. The 30-day trial version with the full set of features limited to 20 monitors can be downloaded at http://www.iphostmonitor.com/download.html . The program prices start at USD $99 for the license allowing 50 monitors and a limited set of features, the Professional edition with the full set of features and an unlimited number of monitors is priced at USD $649. Each license includes the Maintenance&Support contract for one year for free. The Web Transaction monitor add-on is available in 5-monitor packs priced at $199, the option with an unlimited number of Web Transaction monitors allowed is priced at $499.

Publisher & Editorial Information
IT reviewers are encouraged to use this press release and any other related materials. We will be pleased to grant you a free registration key. If you do not consider electronically distributed software, please e-mail us with the details of your postal address and we will send you a jewel case. Cover media editors are authorized to include the 30-day trial version of IPHost Network Monitor 2.1 in their CD/DVD-ROMs.

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ITelSib Ltd. announced a discount program to purchase the IPHost Network Monitor software with the discount of up to 25% from the list price. The offer valid from 7-th till 24-th of December, 2009.

Novosibirsk, Russia -- (SBWIRE) -- 12/08/2009 -- IPHostMonitor Inc announced today a discount program that brings the opportunity to purchase the IPHost Network Monitor software with the discount of up to 25% from the list price. This offer, which will be available from December 7th till December 24th, substantially reduces the acquisition cost for IPHost Network Monitor, popular network, server and application monitoring software specifically designed for small- and medium-sized businesses with up to several hundred monitored devices and systems. To request your discount please contact us using contact form at IPHost Network Monitor support page or contact Alexander Grasmick at xmas2010@iphostmonitor.com

IPHost Network Monitor is a reliable and feature-rich monitoring tool. Each monitor gives you timely information on monitored resource performance and availability. With solid support of industry standard network and server monitoring and management technologies: SNMP monitoring (SNMP v1/v2c/v3, MIB browser is included) and WMI monitoring, IPHost Network Monitor provides you with ability to monitor both Windows and Unix/Linux servers, various networks and network equipment.

IPHost Network Monitor includes Internet monitor that supports HTTPS, POST requests, connection via proxy, several authentication methods (including NTLM) and response validation, whereas some of the high-priced tools do not even support HTTPS, not to mention authentication. Soon we will introduce advanced Internet monitor (web transaction monitor) for end-to-end web application monitoring that allows to record and replay user interaction with web application, for instance, typical session of an online shop visitor. This monitor helps companies that use web applications in their day-to-day activity or even as a base of their business to be aware when a problem with a web application performance or availability arise.

IPHost Network Monitor has native support for monitoring Oracle, MySQL and MS SQL Server databases in addition to monitoring databases using ODBC. In total, IPHost Network Monitor includes some 20 monitor types, among them: mail monitors (SMTP, IMAP, POP3), TCP, UDP, FTP, file size and availability, disc space, service availability monitors. If your environment requires some specific monitoring you can create a custom monitor (script or program) or we can create monitor for your requirements. You can also use Nagios (popular open source network monitoring system) plug-ins in our monitoring tool, currently there are about 1500 plug-ins available, so you can be sure that IPHost Network Monitor can cover the vast majority of your company needs related to network and server monitoring and management.

Some other IPHost Network Monitor capabilities highlight:
- A developed alerting system with e-mail, SMS and instant messengers' (Jabberm, ICQ, AOL) notifications. In order to reduce downtime support for automation of recovery actions can be implemented.
- Quick discovery of IP-based network services on devices in your network and automatic start of monitoring with thoroughly devised settings for each monitor. It helps you to start monitoring in a few minutes and to complete monitoring configuration in a matter of hours not days thus saving administrator time.
- Two usable user interfaces: a Windows interface for managing monitoring configuration and review of basic reports and graphs, and a Web interface that shows various reports and graphs for in-depth analysis of the monitoring results. With just one quick look, the administrator or business owner can get an overview of the status of systems and applications in their network from any web-enabled device. The tree views that group monitors (by host, by monitor type, by current monitor state, favorite monitors) make it easy to locate a problem or navigate through reports.
- Our software automatically creates daily backup of monitoring database so if the file is corrupted our software do automatic restore.

Pricing and Availability
IPHost Network Monitor is designed for Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7 and Server 2003/2008. The 30-day trial version with the full set of features limited to 20 monitors can be downloaded at our site. The program prices start at USD $99 for license allowing 50 monitors and limited set of features, Professional edition with full set of features and unlimited number of monitors is priced at USD $649. Each license includes Maintenance&Support contract for one year for free.

Publisher & Editorial Information:
IT reviewers are encouraged to use this press release and any other related materials. We will be pleased to grant you a free registration key. If you do not consider electronically distributed software, please e-mail us with the details of your postal address and we will send you a jewel case. Cover media editors are authorized to include the 30-day trial version of IPHost Network Monitor 2.1 in their CD/DVD-ROMs.

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm