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DomainScan - Server monitoring? up

DomainScan - Server monitoring, or simply DomainScan, is a multi-purpose monitoring tool, with a built-in monitoring service that can monitor the network 24-7. Furthermore, this service collects a lot of useful information that can be used for various analysis tasks, which the Client part of DomainScan is capable of.

Device and user monitoring
DomainScan is primarily designed to function in networks where Windows is the primary operating system on devices in the network. However DomainScan can scan and monitor every network device.

DomainScan is to be installed on one server, where the scanning engine (DomainScan Service), will scan the entire network regularly (Scanning cycles).

Data search and port scanning
DomainScan can also search devices in the network. One can search for specific files, shares, services and even perform custom searches with WMI or SNMP query tools.

DomainScan also comes with a ping/scanning tool, so that one can scan multiple devices for open ports.

Installation up

To install DomainScan, run the setup file, which will automatically install DomainScan.

Once DomainScan Client is started for the first time, it will automatically detect that it’s not configured, and will therefore launch the Setup Wizard, which will guide you though the installation.

One is to install the Service part on a central server. DomainScan Service isn’t very resource hungry, so one does not need to install DomainScan on a dedicated server. However, it’s not recommended to install DomainScan on a Domain controller.

DomainScan Client, which is the client tool, can be installed on as many devices as one wish.

Note

DomainScan Service relies on these standard interfaces; SNMP and WMI.
That ensures that DomainScan can work with most Windows based devices out-of-the-box, without the need for remote agents.
As of Windows 2000, WMI is installed and enabled by default, and is thus ready to be used by DomainScan.

WMI is not supported on non-Windows based devices, however WMI is more or less based upon WBEM, and with some work [1], [2], one should be able to monitor Linux based devices with DomainScan and the WMI interface.

SNMP is however a universal standard that is available on most managed switches, routers, printers etc. SNMP is also an available for Windows, Linux, Mac OS and many more, but one may need to enable and configure SNMP first. Furthermore the query strings differ from vendor to vendor and even from product to product. Therefore, DomainScan can not utilize the SNMP interface to the same degree as the WMI interface.

The initial scan up

Once installed and configured, DomainScan must populate the database with device information.

This process, called the initial scan, is started automatically when the service is started for the first time, and will probably last for a few minutes.

Once the initial scan completes DomainScan will automatically load the information into DomainScan Client, and DomainScan is now fully operational, and ready to be used.

Using DomainScan up

DomainScan is created with the intent of being flexible, and GH Software doesn’t try to enforce a particular way to use DomainScan, because it’s you, the user, that most likely knows what you want.

Therefore, DomainScan can be customized quite a bit – and the best way to learn the program is simply by exploring it.

However, if you believe that something could work better, or if you have questions or suggestions, please don’t hesitate to contact support.