Requesting realtime Network Monitoring and Alerting

[Dogeron]

Hi,

I've used Lan Sweeper for a long time now and its a great asset management tool, though one of the thing it could really use is some real-time monitoring and alerting.

I'm not talking anything fancy here just having the potential to monitor a device on a choice of standard ports (perhaps 6 or 7), draw a topology map (or two) and take some action(s) on an alert.

Like I said nothing fancy and over bloated just something simple and robust.

A good example was Didyma (which can be here https://houtriet.home.xs4all.nl/Didyma/Download/ ) from my old XP days but which is unfortunately appears to be no longer maintained.

But it gave you monitoring of the following ports :

• ICMP
  POP3
• TCP
• URL
• SMTP
• SNMP
• DNS

Anyone else agree?

Dog.

[AZHockeyNut]

real time would be nice but even a map that can be created from the data switches return of what is connected to them in come kind of widget would be nice.

[ufficioced]

AZHockeyNut wrote:
real time would be nice but even a map that can be created from the data switches return of what is connected to them in come kind of widget would be nice.

you can view what is connected to a switch asset, but only in a list view, did you know?

pseudo real time monitoring, for example alerting when a new device is connected to the network (see arpwatch), could be very very (very) useful, there is no need to make something complex only a simple mac address whitelisting and alerting when a match is not found, of course it should work at a lower level then ip osi if possible.

[Bruce_B]

Real time monitoring features, including alerting and a network map have been requested before and are already on our customer wishlist. We've added your feedback to our internal feature tracking system. This is a feature we're very interested in, but it is also a complex feature to incorporate. At this moment in time we don't yet have an estimated release date for these monitoring features.

Thank you for your feedback.

I think that the real missing component in LanSweeper is an alerting layer, this great software is a inventory (and a lot more) tool, but it hasn't real time alerting features.

If you are not interested in a real time monitoring you can use scheduled deployment to execute some script, and collect data in some way but of course this is not so simple.

Anyway I'm very interested in this topic.

It is already possible to set up alerts based on scanned information using the email/directory alert feature, which is explained in this article. Though this isn't "live" data, but rather data as of the last scan. You could theoretically set up very frequent scanning for certain critical assets, and report on certain scanned values for these assets with a custom report. You could for instance create a report that would list assets out of a certain selection that failed their last scan, which would indicate that they may be offline.

[Michaelzip0]

any update on this? is it just still on the wish list?

[StevenJohns_99]

Typical Lansweeper support - no answer at all.

it seems like you are too focussed on putting in half baked ideas like a helpdesk into the software. you are 10 years of development away from creating a half usable helpdesk module, so I have no idea why you would water down your great asset management application with a completely unusable helpdesk module.

Try adding the features that your customers are actually asking for.... this request has been with you guys for over 7 years now and you havent bothered to even reply very well .....

[Michaelzip0]

we gave up and got a software called pulseway for our major alerts we do use LS for historical information as in how long has this been an issue regarding things like CPU and RAM usage, it be nice if the two companies had an integration, we also still use LS for our dashboard alerts for things like low toner level or low storage alerts but they are for systems not as important that I need an email alert right away.  but yes wish LS would get this added, but doubt we would get rid of pulsway if it happened due to us using it for our remote updates wich LS dose not do. 

[ufficioced]

I think that the real missing component in LanSweeper is an alerting layer, this great software is a inventory (and a lot more) tool, but it hasn't real time alerting features.

If you are not interested in a real time monitoring you can use scheduled deployment to execute some script, and collect data in some way but of course this is not so simple.

Anyway I'm very interested in this topic.