MonitorWare Console is an analysis tool that builds on top of the MonitorWare Central Data Repository that has been gathered either by MonitorWare Agent or by WinSyslog. It ships with several pre-built reports, pre-defined views and a sample database for immediate testing after setup.
Depending upon the size of the network and the auditing policy, MonitorWare Agent or WinSyslog gather huge amount of data in the central MonitorWare Data Repository. All of this data will be meaningless to the network administrator if he/she is not able to analyze it properly. In fact, such huge amount of data cannot be analyzed manually. You need to have some great tool that could extract important information from that huge data repository. MonitorWare Console is the tool that would help you out in this analysis. With MonitorWare Console, you can view many reports which have been made after extensive research in data analysis field. These reports provide you with great information that would help you out in identifying the problematic areas in your network. We, at Adiscon, are totally "Customer Oriented". Addressing the needs of the customers is our top most priority. We keep this philosophy in mind at all times. We have even developed MonitorWare Console keeping this philosophy in mind. It means that if you require any specific report that is not currently present, you can simply contact support@adiscon.com and tell us your requirements. We will create exactly the report in which you are interested if possible and will ship that report to you. You will simply place it in the specified folder and it will become part of MonitorWare Console without re-installation or any other configuration changes.
Apart from the reporting module, you can take advantage of the Views module in Console. In this module, you can define your own views. The data is displayed in the form of hierarchies which help in a great understanding of the otherwise meaningless data. Once again, keeping our "Customer Oriented" philosophy in mind, we have developed this module, again, in such a way that if you are feeling problems in creating a view, you can contact us and we can make that view for you absolutely for free and will ship the required view to you. You will simply place it in the specified folder and it will become part of MonitorWare Console without any hassle.
There are many other modules in MonitorWare Console which you will see in detail as you read this manual. Since there are many modules in MonitorWare Console and each one of them is not necessarily required by all customers, so we have designed MonitorWare Console in such a way that only those modules could be purchased in which you are interested. With this approach, we have ensured that our valuable customers only pay for the specific functionality in which they are interested in, and hence reducing the cost.
MonitorWare Console has been divided into following 7 sub modules for efficient and cost effective working:
1. Base Product (This has to be purchased in order to use other modules)
2. Network Scanning Tools
3. Windows Reporting Module
4. PIX Reporting Module
5. Knowledge Base Module
6. Devices' Module
7. Views Module
Important Note: Although MonitorWare Agent and WinSyslog are not components of MonitorWare Console directly, MonitorWare Console will be mostly useless without them. The reason is that the MonitorWare Console performs all of its analysis on the data that has been gathered by either MonitorWare Agent or WinSyslog and logged into MonitorWare Central Data Repository. The reporting module, however, is also able to use different data sources, so