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internal congestion. It provides charting, alerting, and reporting capabilities that
reflect both current activity and ongoing logging. You can open, browse, and chart log
files later as if they reflected current activity.
NT Event Viewer - is the tool you can use to monitor events in your system. You can
use Event Viewer to view and manage System, Security, and Application event logs.
You can also archive event logs. The event-logging service starts automatically when
you run Windows NT. You can stop event logging with the Services tool in Control
Panel.
NT Web Administration - for Microsoft Windows NT Server enables you to remotely
administer Microsoft Windows NT Server using existing HTML browsers. Web
Administration is not designed to replace existing administrative tools for Windows NT
servers; instead, it is to enable you to perform limited administrative tasks when you are
roaming, away from your usual workstation.
LANDesk Server Manager - provides network administrators with a proactive
management solution and emergency management recovery Tools to help maximize
business-critical server uptime. From a centralized console, LANDesk Server Manager
monitors critical parameters on either Microsoft NT or Novell Netware servers. Through
enhanced alerting features and server health monitoring, LANDesk Server Manager
products notify the LAN administrator when a server reaches a predefined threshold.
SNMP Management Stations – there are several management programs in the market. One
of the SNMP programs from HP is Openview, which is to control basic network devices
and critical systems and applications. Microsoft System Management Server (SMS) is a
solution for centralized management of Windows-based environment. SMS offers features
that can help administrators streamline their work and increase user productivity.