The storage product company BCDVideo has released their second-generation of their SMARTcontrol Management Suite.
The system-monitoring package comes standard on all of the US company’s enterprise access control and video recording platforms.
SMARTcontrol 2.0 alerts you when something is wrong, and can tell you what is wrong, the makers say, saving time when troubleshooting by indicating what needs attention. The performance panel allows a single-pane view into the system, graphing and logging performance. According to the company the SMARTalert panel can even prevent failure before it occurs with behaviour monitoring and can be integrated with video management software (VMS). SMARTsupport feature opens up a ticket to the BCDVideo tech support team or the integrator (dependent on preference.) While the SMARTvault and SMARTrestoration features can help you restore your system in minutes, it is claimed.
Tom Larson, Director of Sales and Engineering for BCDVideo, said: “SMARTcontrol offers a dashboard of the status of the critical components and the ability to set alerts based on performance. This can be extended to anything attached within that network. The BCDVideo mission continues to be delivering the technology that can help reduce overall costs through the project duration and beyond.”
SMARTcontrol 2.0 now monitors 24 parameters including CPU, memory, hard drive, network, and CPU temperature. The performance panel allows a look into your system settings in a single screen, while the performance graph allows a view of the system’s health. The software simultaneously logs past system behaviour up to 48 hours to track patterns in system behaviour
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The SMARTalert monitoring panel allows for failure prevention with system behaviour monitoring that can be integrated within the VMS. SMARTalert allows the administrator to set up custom monitoring settings on a feature-by-feature basis. Thresholds can be set to customise when alerts are sent out. This diagnostic framework can monitor CPU, RAM, temperature, hard drive failure and usage. With this feature, alerts can be tracked before hardware failures occur to ensure zero down time for the system.
SMARTvault is a motherboard module that allows integrators to save configuration files. SMARTcontrol 2.0 includes an auto save feature. This allows the system to automatically save the latest configuration settings in a safe location and can be set to save hourly, weekly, or monthly. Should the need to restore your server settings arise, SMARTrestoration works with the SMARTvault to the original operating system and VMS image. This is bootable from anywhere, and allows the administrator to override a corrupt operating system and start with a clean system without having to be at the premises.
BCDVideo is offering this monitor standard on the Nova and SuperNova products.
Visit: bcdvideo.com/smartcontrol-2.
