BixAgent 2.7 review

BixAgent offers you the monitoring component of BixData that can be locally installed on all supported Operating Systems.

License: Freeware OS: Mac OS X File size: 1214K Developer: BixData LLC Price: $0.00 Updated: 18 Dec 2006

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BixAgent offers you the monitoring component of BixData that can be locally installed on all supported Operating Systems. BixAgent allows for more detailed instrumentation and monitoring, than polling external services with BixServer and provides better reliability and manageability than technologies like SNMP.

BixAgent is responsible for data gathering, and in some cases local data storage where network connectivity is not available on a permanent basis or has been interrupted.

BixAgent is easy to deploy, install in seconds and can auto configure itself

Plug-in Architecture

BixAgent solves challenges due to different kernel versions and proc file systems by employing a plug-in system, and includes different plug-ins that support a multitude of Operating Systems and versions. BixAgent requires no special security privileges, and can access all monitoring values in read only mode. SMART information can even be gathered by parsing output from a command line utility instead of through the supported native plug-in.

Data Sources

Data sources on Windows exceed 10 data points. Data sources on most platforms are organized into these categories

* CPU
* Custom Scripts
* Disk
* FileSystem
* Load
* Memory
* Network
* Network Protocols
* Process
* SMART ATA
* SMART SCSI
* SystemInfo
* TCP
* UDP

SDK

The BixData SDK is intended for system administrators and programmers who wish to extend the functionality of BixData through plug-ins.

Requirements:
6MB Disk Space

Limitations:
Currently BixData version 2 supports plug-in extensions to be written in C/C++ for all platforms supported by BixData.