CheckIT - Management Platform
CheckIT is a multi-user, multi-platform flexible, and customizable management platform. It supplies, among others, the following features:

• A network and servers customizable discovery based inventory engine. This engine supports a large number of discovery protocols.
• A customizable multi-protocol monitoring platform.
• A multi-platform, easy to customize User Interface (UI). The UI supports user authentication and role based rules.

CheckIT is a Java based multi-platform product, regarding both engine and GUI. CheckIT is created using components from the Jilroy Monitoring Platform Genie and the Inventory Platform Genie.

Contrary to the Inventory platform and the Monitoring platform that require customization, CheckIT is created as an 'off the shelf' product, which gives value immediately after installation. CheckIT is a limited version of those powerful tools, however, it is an excellent solution for small and medium sized organizations.

CheckIT is in Beta State and is Currently Free.
Jilroy Software does its best to answer all our users' requests, and add features to the product. Request should be sent to support@jilroy.com

Following is a short explanation on some of the product's components.

Following are some of the CheckIT Management Platform supported Monitors:

Current Collectors

• ICMP monitor
• SNMP monitor
• SQL monitor
• CSV monitor
• HTTP monitor
• WMI monitor
• TCP port monitor
• SNMP Traps forwarder

The CheckIT Management Platform is flexable and extendable, which makes it relatively easy to add new monitoring methods, while re-using all of the infra-structure.

The CheckIT Management Platform and Scales to Very Large Networks
The CheckIT Management Platform can easily be extended to the capabilities of the Jilroy's Monitoring Platform Genie which is created for very large networks. This product is created for scale. Its agents can distribute themselves, near the sites they monitor, in order to reduce traffic on the network, and to improve performance. Most of its server components can have multiple instances too. In this way, the product can handle any size network, without compromising on its performance.

The CheckIT Management Platform is Created for High Frequency Monitoring
The CheckIT Management Platform can easily be extended to the capabilities of the Jilroy's Monitoring Platform Genie which is created for high frequency monitoring. By high frequency, we mean that the product can perform a monitoring cycle collecting tens of thousands of measurements in about a minute or so. This feature is possible due to complex algorithms that enable asynchronous data collection.

Contrary to many other products, the algorithms are not disturbed by non answering devices.

Data Collection
The product can collect the monitoring data in log files, for later processing. The product comes with logger daemons that write the collected data to CSV files. The collection can be done remotely to the measurement processes, to avoid disturbing them.

Event Generation
The user can define limits and conditions on the data collected, and the product will automatically generate alerts when a condition is met. When the condition is met, the product launches a user defined command based on the condition.

Backbone Failure Event Storm Handling
The CheckIT Management Platform is created to handle backbone failure event storms for its ICMP and SNMP status monitoring. The user can define limits for the number of events that define a backbone failure, and when those limits are reached, the events are not generated. The product has mechanisms to automatically detect when the backbone failure was resolved, and in this case, the monitoring continues as normal, without losing status changes that occured during the backbone failure period.

Scheduling Mechanism
The product comes with a built-in scheduler that launches its local services and its event handlers. The scheduler can limit the number of concurrent event handlers from a given type, in order to prevent the system to flood, in case of event storms.

RRD Daemon
The product has a daemon that reads relevant information from the logger's file, and creates RRD databases with the collected information. These RRD databases contain the history information to be displayed later in the product's GUI as graphs. The user can configure what will be collected as RRD data, and in which format.

Measuring Extendability
This product was designed for extendability. The user of this product can define in simple configuration files:

• Which data will be collected and from which node
• The collection frequency
• Which thresholds will be defined
• Which data will be accumulated in RRD databases
• Which reports will exist for the users

and much more.

GUI Extendability
The product GUI is a Java based GUI, which can run on any platform. The GUI is extendable and can be customized easily by the user to add more reports and graphs.

The Network Discovery Component
The CheckIT Management Platform can easily be extended to the full capabilities of the Jilroy's Discovery based Inventory. Please refer to the Network Discovery attached documentation for more details.

Please refer to the CheckIT manual for more details.