Solid tool for smaller environments
What do you like best?
Quick and easy setup via wizards and intuitive interface. Great for monitoring smaller (<100 end points) environments where you need to keep detailed tabs on resource utilization and logs.
Robust log reporting abilities with many pre-configured templates to satisfy assorted compliance requirements. Robust alerting options with configuration of alerts as well as several alerting channels.
Syslog component is quick and easy to configure and generate reports.
What do you dislike?
Not good for larger installations (100+ systems). Interface will lock up and become temporarily unresponsive. Poor back end database management, had to implement script to execute regular cleanup to ensure systems database is kept in check.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Veriato recently sold Server Managed back to Corner Bowl software. Unsure of what is next for this software. Since I started using it 3+ years ago there has not been any enhancements, only bug fixes.
What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?
Primarily used for gathering and reporting of systems logs for cyber-security compliance.
