Uptime, Network, Server and Application Monitoring Software for IT Professionals

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February 12, 2025

What is Internet Server Monitor?

Corner Bowl Internet Server Monitor is an extensive enterprise-class software monitoring and management tool for IT professionals that minimizes downtime by proactively notifying IT when degraded server and application performance is detected. Includes uptime monitoring, website monitoring, email server monitoring, SSL certificate monitoring, database monitoring, Windows server monitoring, SNMP monitoring and much more. Supports Windows, Linux and Docker containers.

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Interrogation

Corner Bowl not only checks the availability of server applications but in most cases includes functionality to test the application performance. For example, our website monitor template includes options to check both the response code and contents.

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Sample Interrogation Properties

Hierarchical Monitoring

System administrators can setup monitoring hierarchy to shut down, start, or throttle up backup system monitoring when a primary server fails. For example, when a ping monitor fails on a primary server the system can shut down the dependent memory and CPU monitors while also throttling up ping, memory and CPU monitors on your backup server.

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Monitor Hierarchy Properties

Schedule and Failure Rate

  • Includes extensive scheduling options.
  • Apply maintenance windows and exclusions rules (e.g. Disable database monitors every Sunday between 2 AM and 4 AM).
  • Supports failure rates (e.g. Trigger ping alerts after 3 failures occur in 20 seconds).
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Failure Rate Template Properties

History

  • Save monitor results to the history database.
  • View, search and page historical results.
  • Display historical charts.
  • Automatically removes old results no longer required.
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Monitor History Chart

Email Monitors

End-To-End Email Monitor

Monitor the end-to-end performance of an email server (e.g. Get notified when it takes more than 5 minutes for an email to be sent and received).

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End-To-End Email Monitor Template Properties

IMAP Monitor

Verify the availability of an IMAP email server (e.g. Get notified when your IMAP server is no longer responding).

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IMAP Monitor Template Properties

POP3 Monitor

Verify the availability of a POP3 email server (e.g. Get notified when your POP3 email server is no longer responding).

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IMAP Monitor Template Properties

SMTP Monitor

Verify the availability of an SMTP email server and optionally send an email (e.g. Get notified when your SMTP server is no longer responding).

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SMTP Monitor Template Properties

Network and Application Monitors

Active Directory/LDAP Monitor

Verify the availability of an LDAP Directory Service server (e.g. Get notified when your domain controller is no longer responding).

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Active Directory Monitor Template Properties

Database Monitor (SQL Server, MySQL)

Verify the availability and performance of a database server (e.g. Get notified when a database query is slow to respond).

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Database Monitor Template Properties

DNS Blacklist Monitor

Monitor DNS Blacklists (e.g. Get notified when your email server is blacklisted).

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Email DNS Blacklist Monitor Template Properties

DNS Monitor

Check the availability of a DNS server and the accuracy of a record (e.g. Get notified when an MX record is not returning the expected value).

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DNS Monitor Template Properties

Domain Expiration Monitor

Verify the expiration date of a domain on a WHOIS server (e.g. Get notified 30 days prior to expiration).

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Domain Expiration Monitor Template Properties

Network Speed Monitor

Verify the speed your network (e.g. Get notified when your data transfer rate falls below an unacceptable threshold).

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Network Speed Monitor Template Properties

Ping Monitor

Checks the availability of a host and response time of an ICMP ping packet and payload (e.g. Get notified when 7 of 9 pings timeout).

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Ping Monitor Template Properties

SQL Server Shrink and Backup

Shrink and backup SQL Server databases (e.g. Shrink weekly and backup nightly).

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SQL Server Shrink and Backup Template Properties

SSH Shell

Check the availability of an SSH server and run SSH shell scripts.

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SSH-Shell Template Properties

TCP Port Scan Monitor

Verifies a TCP port is accepting connections and optionally returns expected results (e.g. Scan a proprietary TCP based service for availability).

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TCP Port Monitor Template Properties

Website Monitor

Verify a website is responsive and returning the expected results (e.g. Trigger an alert if a website returns a 500 error).

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Website Template Properties

SNMP Monitors

SNMP Get Variable Monitor

Monitor SNMP variables (e.g. Monitor the CPU, memory and disk space from a Linux server).

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SNMP Get Monitor Template Properties

SNMP Trap Consolidation and Retention

Saves SNMP Traps from various sources to the data provider database (e.g. Save all SNMP Traps generated from a switch).

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SNMP Trap Server Properties

SNMP Trap Monitor

Trigger Server Manager actions when specific SNMP traps are received (e.g. Send an email alert when a switch throws an SNMP trap).

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SNMP Trap Monitor Template Properties

SSL Certificate Monitors

Digital Signature Monitor

Monitor digitally signed files (e.g. Get notified 30 days prior to expiration).

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Digital Signature Monitor Template Properties

SSL Certificate Monitor

Monitor SSL certificates, their intermediate certificates and expiration dates (e.g. Get notified 30 days prior to expiration).

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SSL Certificate Monitor Template Properties

Windows SSL Certificate Monitor

Monitor Windows SSL certificates, their intermediate certificates and expiration dates (e.g. Get notified 30 days prior to expiration).

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Windows SSL Certificate Monitor Template Properties

Windows Monitors

Active Directory User Integrity Monitor

Monitor Active Directory users for changes (e.g. Get notified when a user account changes).

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Active Directory User Integrity Monitor Template Properties

Active Directory User Monitor

Monitor Active Directory user attribute values (e.g. Get notified when a specific user attribute value changes).

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Active Directory User Monitor Template Properties

Clock Synchronization

Synchronize clock time with a Network Time Protocol (NTP) server (e.g. Synchronize the clocks on all your once a week).

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Clock Synchronization Template Properties

CPU Monitor

Monitor CPU load over a period of time (e.g. Get notified when CPU load exceeds 50% for 10 minutes).

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CPU Monitor Template Properties

Memory Monitor

Monitor memory consumption over a period of time (e.g. Get notified when memory consumption exceeds 75% for 10 minutes).

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Memory Monitor Template Properties

Performance Counter

Monitor Windows Performance Counters (e.g. Trigger an alert when IO latency is greater than 20ms).

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Performance Counter Monitor Template Properties

PowerShell Script

Run a PowerShell script, parse results, trigger alerts and report results.

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PowerShell Script Template Properties

Process Monitor

Monitor Windows Processes and the resources they consume (e.g. Restart a process when it consumes more than 4 GBs of memory).

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Process Monitor Template Properties

Registry Value Monitor

Monitor a Windows Registry Value (e.g. Get notified when a Registry Value is changed to an unexpected value).

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Registry Monitor Template Properties

Task Scheduler (Executables and PowerShell Scripts)

Start, stop or restart an application or script (e.g. Launch a PowerShell script on a managed server)

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Task Scheduler Template Properties

Windows Service Monitor

Monitor Windows Services and the resources they consume (e.g. Restart a service when it consumes more than 4 GBs of memory).

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Windows Service Monitor Template Properties

How does Corner Bowl do it?

Depending on the monitor and your requirements, Server Manager utilizes different technologies to scan managed hosts and application servers:

  • When managing Windows Servers, you can optionally use our Windows client-side Agent to bypass Windows Security and instead use our proprietary FIPS compliant TLS 1.2 application layer protocols to scan and manage machines faster and more reliably than native technologies such as remote WMI. When utilized, our software does not require administrator log on as access credentials nor are logon events generated on domain controllers minimizing our software's footprint on your network.
  • Otherwise, Windows servers are managed using a combination of remote WMI and Windows Shares (SMB).
  • Linux servers are managed using a combination of SSH Shell, SFTP/SSH, FTP/S and SMB (Windows Shares) and Syslog.
  • Application servers such as websites, email servers and DNS servers are monitored using their appropriate application layer protocols.
  • Databases are monitored using each vendor's RDBMS specific .Net library.
  • SNMP Traps are monitored using our own SNMPv3 Trap server with FIPS compliant AES-256 encryption support.
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Simple online and air gapped user manageable licensing

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Windows, Red Hat and Ubuntu hardware and software requirements

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Agent-based an agentless implementation options

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Last Updated: August 25th, 2024