MTD Sentry -- an agentless data gathering network monitoring system going beyond individual islands of support to encompass the entire facility.

Smart Data Collection Is the Key To Successful Network Monitoring

Brought about by many years of experience working on large complex systems, MTDSentry embodies the accumulated knowledge of many Industry Experts and Engineers into powerful network monitoring software. These modules are designed to simplify the difficult tasks encountered in managing systems that must run 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.

SNMP only provides a small portion of the system information. In a typical TV Broadcast environment SNMP provides less than 15% of the data needed. MTDSentry goes beyond simple SNMP monitoring of your network. Although very useful, SNMP data is frequently unavailable, difficult to configure, or of limited use. That is why MTDSentry uses SNMP and TRAP (with MIB translation) along with OS logs, SQL, Event logs, application logs, Syslogs, Telnet, SSH, HTML, RS232, RS422, RS485, and GPIs. Protocols can be monitored as well. These include VDCP, MOS, Sony VTR and ISR, Odetics, Profile, and others: y ou will not find such diversity of collection methods in other network monitoring software solutions.

 

Increase Network Systems Reliability

Operating systems can be Linux, Windows, Solaris, HPUX, and other UNIX flavors. The data from all these resources are combined with other available information to provide the most complete picture of the system. MTDSentry is agentless network monitoring software so it does not interfere with the system being monitored. Agents are small data gathering applications that some monitoring systems install on your system critical servers, PCs, and controllers. These steal system resources and load the devices that are being monitored! They can also interfere with OS patches, upgrades, and settings. Log files are rich in data and trouble details. Reliability improvement happens as this information is acted on. The ability to improve system reliability happens only with the very best network monitoring software.

Network Monitoring And Log Files

MTDSentry will capture log files, divide them by event, analyze each event by priority, and generate alerts based on severity. The original log event will also be linked to the alert. The time-corrected event will be associated with the device, subsystem, and facility. The entire log will then be archived for easy viewing. MTDSentry integrates to other monitoring systems. It can be the low level data gather or it can be the target of lower level monitoring systems.

Extreme Network Monitoring - Always On Data Trending

MTDSentry continuously tracks device activity on the network. Many applications suffer from memory leaks, system resource attrition, and other types of error accumulation. Hard drives frequently indicate increasing warnings, retries, and errors prior to complete drive failures.

• Agentless Data Gathering
• Much More Then Just SNMP
• Dynamic Software Updating
• Legacy Device Support
• Manufacturer Agnostic
• Supports Multiple Operating Systems
• Remotely Updated with new Features
• Redundant data gathering capability

MTDSentry is a powerful monitoring application that unifies multi-vendor facilities into a single homogeneous structure. There is no other real time network performance monitoring software package like MTD Sentry.

 

MTDSentry Is Media Aware Monitoring

If all of that isn't enough, MTDSentry does what no other network monitoring software package out there does. It can track your media as it moves through devices in house or across your enterprise. This feature has been deployed across TV Broadcast groups and in Satellite media distribution systems. This is not your traditional network monitoring solution but something new. We like to think of it as Third Generation Network Monitoring.