The Command monitor can be used to execute any program, command, executable, batch or script and analyze the output of it. The command is executed via the MonitorMagic service and the output is analyzed using the MonitorMagic rule trigger and alarm action portion of the product.
This monitor can process a custom command line command, i.e. a script or 3rd party utility, and fire all available alerts based on its output. Starting now, we will periodically release new free command line utilities for use with this new monitor type: WebPing (checks if a specified web page exists and responds correctly) and PortPing (checks whether a TCP/IP port is open and responding).