BixData

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BixData

Developer:	BixData
Latest release:	2.5 / July 7, 2006
OS:	Cross-platform
Use:	network management
License:	Closed/Free
Website:	[1]

BixData is network management software developed by a company by the same name.

BixData as a system monitoring tool can monitor services (HTTP, ping, POP3, SMTP), performance, and processes. You can create critical notifications and get email alerts for HTTP, ping, CPU, memory, and even SMART diagnostics. A graphical console for Linux, OS X and Windows supports real-time dynamic graphs. The runtime clients and server component are lightweight and easy to set up, and run on Linux, Windows, FreeBSD, and OS X.

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Supports FreeBSD, Linux, OS X and Windows;

 specifically FreeBSD 6.0
 most linux distributions including Debian, Fedora, Mandrake, Red Hat, Suse, Ubuntu
 Mac OS X 10.3 10.4 Universal Binary, PowerPC / Intel
 Windows 98, NT, XP, Server 2003

Server monitoring; Monitor critical machines and receive email notifications or execute scripts
HTTP, ping, POP3, SMTP, Open Ports; Monitor HTTP servers and URLs, ping status and thresholds, POP3 and SMTP availability. Also monitor user specified open ports.
Process and Service Status; Monitor process status (running / not running), process count, Linux and Windows service status (up / down)
CPU Load; CPU load for up to 8 processors, system load, idle and user time, load average
Memory usage; virtual memory, swap and paging file statistics
Disk performance; throughput, I/O operations
SMART Hard Disk Drive Information; supports all SMART attributes and thresholds, and up to 16 IDE Hard Disk Drives
Network statistics; throughput packet errors and bandwidth utilization
Process statistics; per process CPU utilization, memory usage, disk operations
Windows Performance Counters; full support for Windows performance counters, Windows .NET, ASP.NET and IIS
Real-time Graphs; dynamic scale, history with zoom in and out
System Information; detailed hardware, software and system information for Linux and Windows
Configure Startup Services; start or stop services, change service startup behaviour and runlevels
WMI; supports Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) on Windows
Low bandwidth usage; monitor desktops or servers on the local network or even slow dial-up internet connections
Secure; supports transport layer security (SSL) and mutual authentication