Watcher for Windows

User Reviews

• it is just another scanner

  pdejonghMay 5, 2008

  Pros

  it installs easily

  Cons

  it does not add much to the good old DOS command testing

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• This is a nice start

  SteaphanyJune 27, 2005

  Pros

  For a pre 1.0 release this is not bad. It's not CA-Unicenter TNG, but there is no massive over head nor is the install complex. Just unzip the down load file and run, that's it. <p> <p>One feature that I found useful is that you can add frequestly access/relied upon hosts, off the LAN and on the Interner, into the list so that they can also be monitored.

  Cons

  I am using version 0.5. If a later version becomes available, some of these issues may have been addressed. <p> <p>The network scan / discovery is not in the most obvious place in the menus. You need to click Edit, Mass Add... to bring up the discovery window. <p> <p>On the Settings window, Monitor tab, the poll interval is limited to no longer than 100 seconds. Being use to CA-Unicenter, I manually entered 300 seconds and it was accepted with no warnings or errors. I am not sure if the 300 second polling interval was actually being used or if it defaulted to another value. Another surprise is the buttons to increase and decrease the poll interval are backwards, the top one decreases the time and the bottom increases it. <p> <p>When trying to sort the node list my the column headers, I once had Watcher die and it sent off an error report. <p> <p>When the host list needs to be scrolled, there is no way to resize the window to see all hosts at one glance. <p> <p>I also was able to inadvertently add two hosts with the same name string, with out any errors.

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