Tuesday, February 07, 2006

HealthMonitor

HealthMonitor Web Site - Welcome to HealthMonitor

"HealthMonitor is changed, we spent a lot of time rewriting the application from scratch, developing a new web site and providing a lot of exciting features such as plugin management, remote host checking... Ok, ok... most of all are impatient and want to see it in action so just click here to download or click here for some screenshots ;-) "

About HealthMonitor

“What is HealthMonitor ?

HealthMonitor is a free powerful and featureful monitoring tool for Windows.
It works as a Windows Service, monitor system performances/thresholds (CPU load average, free memory, disk space, Event Viewer...)  and handle specific check plugin (Check HTTP, windows services, custom script).
It can log result on a database or send a notification by E-Mail, SMS, PopUp...”

This is a Open Source (GPL) VB.Net (7.1) project that looks pretty interesting. I like the plug-in capability…

I’ve had to re-invent a number of these checks (Disk Space and Pinging) and while I dig the coding, I don’t dig re-inventing the wheel…

BTW, the HealthMonitor 3.0 VB source downloads (once you get a CVS client like TortoiseCVS) and builds with zero problems (at least on my machine ;). If you’ve ever downloaded OSS and tried to rebuild it you’ll know why I note this point.

 (via TechNet Magazine)


Update #1 5/4/2006:
The correct/official URL for HealthMonitor is http://healthmonitor.sourceforge.net

2 comments:

Vittorio Pavesi said...

Can you please change the link to HM Web Site ? The right one is http://healthmonitor.sourceforge.net

Moreover, did you modify some check ? Would you like to share with other people ?

Greg said...

Updated. Thank you...

No, beyond opening and doing the initial looking at it, I've not yet had a chance to play with it more. I DO have it in my queue of things to do though...

If/when I do make any modifications I will certainly share them.

Thanks again for creating and releasing this. Releasing source takes a great deak of strength and bravery...