Most system and network management applications do a good job of monitoring, and often provide some form of alarm auditing. Typically, data specific to each alarm is output to a log file, or to a script procedure the user may customize to provide some rudimentary form of notification and/or reporting.

The Attention! Alarm Manager Software File Collector Agent provides a comprehensive method to collect alarm data output by any number of applications, running on virtually any operating system. This data is then analyzed, immediately, by the Attention! AM Server to determine if critical alarm conditions have been detected. By setting up applications to write their output data to a network-accessible directory, you can tie together the alarm configuration, filtering and reporting for any number of products.

The Attention! Alarm Manager Software File Collector Agent serves as the gateway between disparate software applications, and allows you to tie together all enterprise events under a common management umbrella. As with all Attention! AM agent software, the File Collector Agent may be installed throughout the organization, easing configuration and distributing the workload associated with alarm data collection.

File Collector Agent Features

     The File Collector Agent in the big picture

     Self-monitoring for high availability