Copyright: Taskmon 2000   Monday, April 17, 2000 12:03:00
Citation: Taskmon 2000


Taskmon 2000 Overview

Taskmon 2000 is a computer management tool. It can be used on various Windows platforms including:

•	Windows 95 (B)

•	Windows 98

•	Windows NT

•	Windows 2000

It can be used to locally and remotely monitor Applications, Services, Memory, Drives and Performance Counters.

System administrators can manage all aspects of their network. In conjunction with Statmon 2000 all this information can be setup to notify of faults and performance issuesvia email, paging etc.

Locally, Applications and Services can “Auto-Restart” if they hang or are stopped.

Once loaded an icon will appear in the system tray of the computer.


Applications

The Applications tab display currently running Applications. The following can be set set for each App.

Active:

This will make the App selected actively monitored by Taskmon 2000.

Action:

This will select the action to be taken (if active) by Taskmon 2000 if the App is “hung”, stopped or closed.

1.	Start

The App, if hung, will be terminated and then restarted. If the App is stopped or closed the App will be started.

2.	Stop

The App, if hung, will be terminated.

3.	Reboot

The App, if hung, will be terminated and then the computer will be rebooted.


Services

NT or Windows 2000 only.

The Services tab display currently running Services. The following can be set set for each Service.

Active:

This will make the Service selected actively monitored by Taskmon 2000.

Action:

This will select the action to be taken (if active) by Taskmon 2000 if the Service is “hung” or stopped.

4.	Start

The Service, if hung, will be terminated and then restarted. If the Service is stopped the Service will be started.

5.	Stop

The Service, if hung, will be terminated.

6.	Reboot

The Service, if hung, will be terminated and then the computer will be rebooted.


Performance

NT or Windows 2000 only.

Performance counters can be used to monitor all aspects of the computer.

Add Counter:

Pressing the Add Counter button will present a window where you can select the counter to be added to the monitor list.

Once added to the list you can right click the selected item and change the scale information. This will display large numbers, in a scaled format for ease of reading the value.


Drives

This will display a list of all drives connected to the machine.

The values displayed are in gigabytes.


Memory

This displays memory information:

•	Physical Memory

•	Page Memory

•	Virtual Memory

The values displayed are in megabytes.


Setup

IP Port:

This allows entry of the IP port to communicate to Statmon 2000.

Default is 3400.

Start “closed” Application:

When Taskmon 2000 starts any Apps not running will be started (as per the action property). Also if an App is manually stopped, it will automatically be restarted.

Time between checking:

This is the time interval that Taskmon 2000 will check all Apps, Services, Drives and performance.

Time sync to Statmon:

This will timesync the machine time to the Statmon 2000 time sent via IP.

Registration:

The program, UNREGISTERED, will run for 14 days, after which registration is required.

Password:

This is the Taskmon 2000 password. To allow Statmon 2000 to “talk” to Taskmon it will require this password.