Being able to permanently monitor the availability of a server is highly beneficial, even if you aren’t a webmaster or server administrator. Advanced Host Monitor is a powerful tool that will assist you with this task.
With Advanced Host Monitor you will be able to monitor the availability of any server or domain address that you desire. What’s even better is that you can do it continuously or schedule tests to occur even when you are not at the computer.
One of the things that I really like about Advanced Host Monitor is that it allows you to create multiple profiles, each with its own settings and monitored websites. This is great, as it allows multiple users to efficiently share a computer.
Another plus for this application is that it will help you use the trace route function for websites and IP addresses, in order to find out where they originate from and the hops that they go through. Furthermore, the IP Monitor that the program embeds can also come in very handy.
Although Advanced Host Monitor doesn’t have the best graphical interface that you have ever used, you can still find a lot of positive things in this area. For starters, the application can be minimized to the system tray so it won’t get in your way. Moreover, the color scheme is fully customizable, so you can easily adapt the program to your own work style.
Personally, I think that Advanced Host Monitor is an efficient program that you will surely find very useful. This feature-rich application is definitely worth its price.
v10.0 [Mar 11, 2016]
Improvements MIB Browser improvements
Redesigned MIB file compiler works much much faster
Now compiler's "smartmode1" is enabled by default, this helps to avoid compiling problems experienced with some MIB files
Also fixed problems related to SNMP Traps v1 specified in some MIB files
Progress indicator
Other GUI improvements
New standard database includes over 15,000 nodes from over 100 MIB files
Important note: new MIB Browser can load old database create by old MIB Browser however we recommend install standard pre-compiled database and re-compile your custom MIB files (if you have any) using new version of the software.
If you update old Advanced Host Monitor package then installation program will keep your existing database. You may retrieve new MIB database from this archive - just unzip and replace MIBDATA.LST and MIBTREE.LST files located in HostMonitor data folder (usually this is C:\ProgramData\HostMonitor\ folder on Windows Vista and newer systems or C:\Program Files\HostMonitor\ on old Windows XP/2003 systems)
Improvements HostMonitor and RMA improvements
New software uses OpenSSL version 1.0.2e
Now AES module used by SSH test and Certificate Expiration test methods supports AES256-cbc and AES192-cbc ciphers (in addition to AES128-cbc)
Improvements HostMonitor and RCC improvements
System Info utility could not retrieve disk usage information from some BSD systems. Now improved and works with various BSD systems
Test Properties-Comment dialog automatically adjusts witdth of titles column when alternative titles specified by AlternativeCommentTitles option
SNMP related test methods can work with new MIB database
Advanced Host Monitor 10.06 Beta
Improvements Improvements
HostMonitor and RMA for Windows: Ping test offers new option "Alert if Jitter over N ms". Jitter - amount of variation in response time, calculated by using the following formula Jitter = SquareRoot( SumOf((ReplyTime[i] - AverageReply)^2) / (ReceivedPacketCount-1) )
(when this option enabled, HostMonitor will send at least 3 ICMP packets)
Now HostMonitor may set 6 statuses for Ping tests:
"Ok" this status used when Jitter" option is enabled and Jitter time within specified limit
(when "Alert if lost ratio" option enabled, it should be within specified limit as well)
"Host is alive" this status used when "Jitter" option was not enabled and loss ratio within specified limit
"Bad" this status means either Jitter or Loss ratio is out of the limits
"No answer" HostMonitor sets "no answer" status when does not receive any response from target system
"Unknown host" host name could not be resolved to IP address
"Unknown" test performed by Remote Monitoring Agent and there is some RMA related error (e.g. HostMonitor cannot connect to the agent)
Also there is new "Display: Jitter" option for Ping test
%AlertThreshold% variable for Ping test may return values like
50% lost; Timeout: 1000 ms - this format used when "jitter" option is not enabled
50% lost; Jitter: 100 ms - when both "lost" and "jitter" alert options used
Jitter: 100 ms - when only "jitter" alert option enabled
%AlertThresholdValue% variable for Ping test returns timeout value (as before) or jitter threshould (if "Jitter" option enabled for the test)
New Ping test related variables can be used as action parameters, Custom HTML report variables, custom field, etc:
%Jitter% - amount of variation in response time, in milliseconds
%LostRatio% - ratio of lost packets to total transmitted packets
Note: when you setup Ping test with "Alert if Jitter.." option disabled and "Lost ratio" option set to 100% and you are not using Lost, Received or Jitter display option then HostMonitor (or RMA) will wait for SINGLE received ICMP packet and %Jitter% variable will be set to -1 (unused)
HostMonitor and RCC: Test Info window may show Loss ratio and Jitter in "reply" field (Ping test)
HostMonitor and RMA: Process test: sometimes damaged Windows Performance Counters can lead to memory leakage. New HostMonitor should be able to detect this problem and display "Windows Perf Counters corrupted?" message. If some test item returns such error, you should rebuild Windows Performance Counters
HostMonitor and RMA: Certificate Expiration test: HostMonitor version 10.00 (and RMA 5.00) uses new version of OpenSSL library where TLS 1.0 protocol is disabled by default. HostMonitor 10.06 will try use TLS 1.0 if your web server does not support TLS 1.2
RCC: System Info window may request data without suspending other requests (e.g. you may check or modify test settings, disable or pause test items while RCC requesting system information from HostMonitor or Remote Monitoring Agent)
