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SAM & Custom Apps

Does SAM have the capability to monitor custom built applications?

My company has some in-house custom built applications. We want to have the capability of monitoring these applications for performance and up/down so that we can provide quick repsonse whenever issues arise.

Is SAM capable of monitoring these applications or does it just work with a built in list of common applications?

Thanks,

Rick

  • Absolutely.

    You can effectively monitor anything with SAM.

    Lots of built-in specific monitors (like WMI calls) but when all else fails there is also the ability to use custom scripts.

    What you want to do is build a SAM template(s) then assign it/them to your app servers.

  • About 90% of our SAM monitors are monitoring custom-built applications. It's especially useful if the application has log files or shell commands that return a statistic. With these, you can just parse the file/output however you see fit, and monitor it that way. It's really a breeze if you have some scripting experience.