What is a Nodinite Monitor View?
Get started now: How to Add or Manage Monitor View user guide.
A Nodinite Monitor View holds a collection of system integration workflow Resources managed by an Administrator. The Nodinite AdminIstrator grants the Business Users access using Role-based security. Nodinite provides multiple options for sending alerts, either from what comes out of the box or from custom-coded Alarm Plugins. What's more, is the ability to delegate control and perform Remote Actions like start and stop. With Nodinite, you don't need manual labour to detect and react to problems; You can configure the monitored Resources for Auto Healing (Nodinite performs selected actions automatically according to configuration).
To create a managed service, add Knowledge base Articles to Resources in the Monitor Views. The feature helps you create personal independence with easy and fast access to valuable information like operator instructions, Custom Metadata like System owner and SLA.
Nodinite stores historical information. Use the view history feature to get the KPIs you need to validate your SLAs.
| Share and delegate | Fix it, NOW! | Learn from mistakes |
|---|---|---|
| Quickly provide self-service access for your business and other stakeholders | Responsible users can swiftly manage and resolve problems thereby saving downtime | Work with continuos improvements using knowledge from statistics |
Features
Visualize problems
Nodinite displays the evaluated state of Resources with the use of icons and colors.
Sample from Monitor View with some Resources in different evaluated states.
Learn more Exploring the Monitor Views Overview
In the top of each Monitor View is a pie chart with live status with a summary for all included Resources.
Summary of the current state for included Resources
You can have any number of Monitor Views and each of them can include Resources from the inclusion of one or more Monitoring Agents, Applications and Categories, mix as you find fit.
Create end to end monitoring and alerts for individual system integration workflows with exactly the dependencies that exists for each solution.
Highly configurable role-based Monitor Views provide self-service for end-users as well as customizable options for pushing alerts
Get those responsible aware of the problem
Nodinite makes use of Custom Metadata from the Repository Model by attaching highly valuable information to the alerts which means recipients do not need to know or search to find out the degree of the problem or even what to do about it.
Whenever the evaluation of the state of Resources from any of the Monitoring Agents matches your configuration for the Monitor Views, Alerts are pushed by Alarm Plugins and Nodinite ships with various mail and Windows Event Log plugins.
- E-mail with options
- Windows Event Log - for use with for example SCOM
- HTTP Webhook
- 3rd party plugins
- Custom Alarm plugins that you provide using our templates and SDKs - for use with your issue-tracking system
You can customize the output of the alert using the Stylesheets feature.
From the configuration of Monitor Views, the Monitoring Service is responsible for making you aware, Nodinite is Always Aware.
Read more about this feature in the 'Alarm Plugins' user guide
History of distributed notifications (Alert history)
Distributed notifications or maybe you know as (Alerts). Nodinite as we have noticed earlier is keeping up with the users by sending a detailed customizable notification. The good news are Nodinite is keeping those notifications(Alerts) as history(Distributed notifications) so that the user can access them anytime and for simplicity, a timespan search field is provided so that users can easily use it to search for any distributed notification by time. Distributed notifications tab is only visible if you are an administrator user and have External notifications set.
Fix the problems using Remote Actions
Monitor Views with the Remote Actions Option checked allows end-users to perform Remote Actions like start/stop. Each Resource provides its own set of Remote Actions. We at Nodinite are constantly adding even more functions that make your daily operation run smoother, either by demand or just because we can; To prove a point (and the point being is nothing is impossible).
The ability to perform Remote Actions means your power users do NOT need to be local administrator or even have more access rights than needed by the specific business case. Nodinite removes the need for remote desktop connections (RDP) often using different VPN solutions, with passwords and 3rd party software, and, and... With Nodinite all you need is a client browser.
An example of some Remote Actions.
With Nodinite version 6 and later, there is a new feature to perform the same set of actions on multiple resources at the same time. Check any number of Resources and then use the With selected button to select which operation and the actual resources to invoke.
You can also Exclude multiple Resources from the Monitor View using this button.
Documented solutions
With just one click you get instant access to your operator instructions and documentation (Repository Model). With Nodinite You do not need a WIKI for Knowledge base Articles. You do not even need/grant access or spend time searching for information, we provide it for you when and where it matters the most.
You can bind a Monitor View to one or more Integrations and the reward can be seen in the following example:
Example of access from a Monitor View to your Repository Model
In addition to the documentation about the Integrations you can add an arbitrary number of Knowledge base Articles on Resources within the Monitor View.
Access your knowledgebase articles directly from Resources
Example of Knowledgebase Articles:
WYSIWYG Editor makes it dead easy to write stylish instruction
We believe that having instant access to information and the WYSIWYG editing experience provides means for **active and living documentation and prosperity for Managed Services by Partners.
Read more about this feature in the 'Knowledgebase Articles' user guide
Learn by mistakes and use the statistics feature to prioritize future work
Many Resources provide statistics on their own, for example, CPU usage, Web Service Response time and BizTalk Suspended Messages. Nodinite also provides the history for Monitoring Events. A Monitoring Event is each occasion a Resource changes its evaluated state, for example, goes from the state 'OK' to 'Error'. The reason for mentioning the evaluated state is because Nodinite Resources provide the ability to set Expected State; Which means that an administrator may change the state from whatever state the Monitoring Agents claim to the evaluated state. An example would be a Windows Service that is running that should have been kept disabled.
All-in-all; This means that Nodinite has the statistics for how often there is a problem, and even how long time it took to resolve the problem. Statistic information is displayed directly in the monitor Views.
In addition, Monitor Views with the Show History Option checked users can filter and search the historical monitor events.
Search within history for Monitoring Events.
Read more about this feature in the 'View history for Resource' user guide
Manage Monitor Views
A Nodinite Administrator can manage a Monitor View by:
Review the Monitor Views Overview user guide for the list of manageable Monitor Views.