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Quest Bigbrother Monitor Server Network License Maintanence

Mfg # MGN-BBR-PB-NT CDW # 699600 | UNSPSC 43232804
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  • Simplify IT Management
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Big Brother™ is a web-based systems and network monitor. A universal color-code interface of "red is bad and green is good" allows anyone to measure the health of a network at a glance.


Big Brother simplifies the management of networks of computers. It features tests to notify administrators when defined events occur. This facilitates proactive problem resolution and prevents critical outages. With Big Brother, system administrators can visually assess the health of a network through a color-coded web interface. Designed around simplicity, anyone looking at the interface can understand the red, yellow, and green display. View the live demo to see how easy Big Brother is to use.


Big Brother is able to monitor and alert on almost anything in your network. The product supports common operating systems including the major flavors of Windows, Unix and Linux. In addition, the huge user community has greatly contributed to the extensibility of the product. An enormous repository of user-contributed scripts makes Big Brother highly customizable to your environment.

Ease of use ensures that your return on investment is nearly immediate. Experienced systems administrators are able to have Big Brother up and running within an hour.

Flexibility allows you to make Big Brother work the way you want it to.

A large user community offers years of experience and product extensions to meet the needs of any environment. Access to such a community keeps you in touch with other professionals who are also looking for a straightforward and inexpensive infrastructure monitoring solution.

Big Brother integrates with Foglight® and Spotlight® to deliver a complete application performance management solution. Big Brother serves as a framework, and is able to provide a layer of broad systems availability monitoring, helping system administrators manage large numbers of servers.


Foglight uses domain-specific agents to collect data from every tier of the application — end user, application server, database, operating system, Web server and network — to provide a total picture of performance and reduce the time it takes to find and resolve a problem. Big Brother integrates with Foglight by allowing alerts to display in the same environment as Foglight. This integration offers a holistic view to the entire infrastructure, including mission critical applications.


Beyond monitoring for high availability, systems need to be managed for optimal performance. Once Big Brother alerts you of a condition, you can launch Quest Software's Spotlight from the Big Brother interface to gather domain specific information and quickly resolve performance issues. Spotlight is a real-time diagnostic tool designed to diagnose and resolve performance bottlenecks before users are affected.



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This item was discontinued on November 09, 2012