Via: LinuxInsider

HipCheck lets you use your Windows Mobile phone to monitor your Windows and SCO UNIX systems, set triggers for real-time event alerts, and then immediately respond to those alerts by viewing critical parameters and executing system commands.

The SCO Group on Thursday announced the availability of HipCheck, the latest offering from the company’s Me Inc. mobile services division.

HipCheck is a mobile administration solution designed to monitor and manage Unix and Windows systems through Windows Mobile phones. The application combines system monitoring and alerts with secure mobile intervention, with the aim of helping technicians detect, diagnose and correct many common system problems quickly.

Cool. Another mobile remote network monitoring and management solution. For large enterprises, or any company where even small amounts of downtime or service interruption mean serious loss of revenue, this sort of product should be a very attractive option. HipCheck has three components (as most of these do) – agent software to be installed on servers that need to be monitored, a mobile client to run on Windows Mobile 5 devices (phones only from the looks of it), and a server piece that can be installed on a company server or hosted elsewhere.

HipCheck pricing varies based on the number of users, servers and period of time that the service is used on the Windows Mobile device. Fees range from US$10 to $18 per monitored system per month.

I will try to test this out soon. In the meantime, if you want all the info and a free trial of HipCheck, visit:

HipCheck overview page

[tags]HipCheck, Network monitoring on Windows Mobile[/tags] 

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