Admin

• Click Desktop > Monitor > Admin
• Alias: In this screen you will see all the machines, their registered date, alias/name, and whether they are active or not.

  

• You can add the desired name to all the machines as per your needs.
• You can activate or deactivate the machine by clicking on the checkbox in the Active column.
• To delete any machine from the list, simply click on the Delete button.

Groups: This section allows you to add multiple machines or agents in one group. You can create groups and add agents in different groups.

• Go to Admin > Groups
• Add a group name and click on the Add button.

  

• You will see the group created. In this way you can create groups for different agents.

  

• Click on the Agents to add the agents or machines in the group.

  

• Check mark the agents which you want to add in the group and click Save.
• Now you can go to the list screen and select the group from the dropdown and view the data for that particular group.

  

• You can edit or delete the group name from the Admin > Groups screen. In the Agent groups section, click on the icon to edit and change the group name and click icon to save changes. To delete a group, click on the icon.

Before we learn how to use commands, let us understand few concepts related to them.

• Arg 1: means an argument where we enter a url or a keyword to check the response or value
• Arg 2: means an argument where we enter a url or a keyword to check the response or value
• Units: shows ping unit in ms, the idle % in percent, idle time in minutes and memory in gb
• Url.ping: means when you add a url in the system, the url.ping detects how much time it takes to get data from that particular link
• Url.check: will check that if we make a call to that particular url, and the value gets compared to the second argument, then it checks whether the value is correct or not. It basically checks the url
• Cpu.percent: shows the percent of data the CPU is utilizing
• Memory.free: shows the free memory(RAM) in the users system
• Network.specific: shows the load a particular network is carrying. Check the network in the hardware list in the list screen
• Drive.free: shows the free disk space in the hard drive
• Os.uptime: shows the time elapsed for your operating system since it was started
• Os.idletime: shows the idle time of a machine in minutes
• Os.idlepercent: shows the idle time of a machine in percentage

Let us see how to use the Commands within the Monitor application:

1. Url.ping: Enter a name for the ping, select the type as url.ping, in Arg1 enter the url for which you need to check the ping, and click Add.

   

2. Url.check:
3. Cpu.percent: Enter the name, select the type as cpu.percent, and click Add.

   

4. Memory.free: Enter the name, select the type as memory.free, and click Add.

   

5. Network.specific:
6. Drive.free: Enter the name, select the type as drive.free, in Arg1 enter the drive for which you want to view free memory, and click Add.

   

7. Os.uptime: Enter the name, select the type as os.uptime, and click Add.

   

8. Os.idletime: Enter the name, select the type as os.idletime, and click Add. It will show the idletime in minutes.

   

9. Os.idlepercent: Enter the name, select the type as os.idlepercent, and click Add. It will show the machine idletime in percentage.

   

10. Once saved, you will see list of all the commands and their details.

    

11. To edit the command name, click on the icon to edit, change the name and click icon to save changes. To delete a command, click on the icon.

• In this section, you can set the warning and error limits for the commands.
• The system has predefined limits, but you can customize them according to your organization’s needs.

  

• Set the limits and click on Submit button.
• On the list screen, if any machine has crossed the warning limit it will show up in yellow color, while if it has crossed the error limit, it will be in red color.