MonitorWare Console Features - Miscellaneous Features

Customizeable Views

Users can define their own views of the data in a system. MonitorWare Agent logs the data to a central database and MonitorWare Console allows users to view that data in various combinations.

Flexible Reporting

MonitorWare Console ships with several pre built great reporting options and users can create and add their own custom reports by applying various filters. Reporting sub-system is based on HTML reports that have been built using great templates. Reports are now available in two flavors i.e. Pix Reporting Module and Windows Reporting Module.

Report Generation using Files

MonitorWare Console can now generate intelligent reports using log files. Previously MonitorWare Console was only able to generate reports using the under lying database i.e. MonitorWare Central Database. Now MonitorWare Console is able to generate reports on PIX Log files as well as Log files for Windows.

Changing Database for Report Generation on the fly

Now, you can generate reports by mentioning the database on the fly. It doesnt matter which database MonitorWare Console is connected to. You can simply generate the same report on various database without restarting MonitorWare Console.

Job Manager

MonitorWare Console comes with a Window Service that is called Job Manager. Job Manager is a very powerful feature that has the capability of generating reports according to your defined schedule. You can also ask the Job Manger to generate the reports at the specified time and then send them to your specified recipients via email.

Time Zone Handling

MonitorWare Console provides transparent handling and conversion of time zone related issues in a geographically spread system. All system-generated events are logged after converting to UTC time and are retrieved and displayed to the users in their configured time zones. Thus, users always get to view and analyze the data in their own time zones.

Database Support

Now MySQL has been added in the list of supported databases. Previously MonitorWare Console supported both Microsoft Access, Microsoft SQL Server databases. Support for SQL Server also implies that MonitorWare Console and MonitorWare Agent can be used with the free version of this product, i.e. MSDE.

User management

You can create different user profiles and can select various time zones for them. The data will be converted to the local time based on the specified UTC Offset.

Localization Support

MonitorWare Console can be localized to any of the world languages, including right-to-left scripts like Hebrew and Arabic. End users can request Adiscon to provide support for a particular language or even translate and localize the product themselves – using step by step instructions provided by Adiscon on request.