Managed technologies

Tap In System's Cloud Management Service monitors a wide variety of server, network and application technologies:

Linux/Unix systems

Tap In’s Linux/Unix agent, written in Perl, gathers a wide variety of data from Linux/Unix systems. Plugins supported by Nagios can be called by this agent, including those from the open source Nagios Plugin Project. Users can also write Perl scripts to gather additional Linux/Unix system and application information.

Windows (2000/2003/2008/XP/Vista) systems

Tap In’s Powershell Agent gathers information from Windows systems. Since Powershell is Microsoft's management scripting language of choice, it easily interfaces with Microsoft applications such as Operations Manager (or Systems Center Operations Manager) and Exchange. It also interfaces with standard Microsoft components, such as Active Directory, Event Logs, and application .COM or .NET objects. Alternatively, an ActiveState Perl agent can also gather Microsoft system data.

Network devices

To monitor network devices, Tap In supports use of the Nagios SNMP query plugins to access MIB-based data.

Load balancers

Tap In provides users with statistics, alerts and performance metrics of load balancers such as HA Proxy. Users can access Tap In’s load balancer data on the load balancer’s Web page or from Tap In’s QuickView, Web and Desktop Widget Viewers.

Web applications and Internet services

To provide over-the-Internet monitoring, users can execute scripts from the Tap In Management Server instance in the cloud. This enables monitoring of sophisticated web services or transactions. Tap In supports common web protocols such as HTTP/HTTPS, DNS, SMTP/POP and Web services.

Java applications

For Java applications, Tap In Systems’ LOG4J mediator translates selected messages to events in the Tap In Management Server.