Overview

Hard Disk Sentinel Enterprise is a complete solution for remotely managing hard disk/solid state disk in client computers. The package comes with a centralised management software (the Enterprise Server itself) and a client software: Hard Disk Sentinel (standard, Professional or a silent client) which is installed on the client computers (hosts) and collects disk health, temperature, free space and system related information. Such information are displayed in the single management console called the Enterprise Server.

The Enterprise Server can filter, show, sort, arrange information in different ways so the administrator can quickly check a situation, quickly make list of the hottest drives or all drives with low health in all managed hosts. Moreover, alerts can be configured for various events, and it is possible to start remote tests on hard disks (even all   disks in all   hosts) by some single clicks.

Requirements

• the client computers (hosts) should have Registered Hard Disk Sentinel software installed. It can be standard, Professional or "silent" client which has no user interface, just provides information for the Enterprise Server

• the Accept remote connections from server option (Configuration -> Integration) must be enabled. The connection port should be the same for the client and the server (dfiferent clients may have different port settings but the same must be configured for each client on the server)

• Server side: 1024x768 or larger display resolution is recommended to display all details, especially if managing lots of hosts.

Features

• displays remote host and hard disk/SSD details including temperature, health, performance, lifetime, connection status, self test status

• option to sort, filter, search information, export current selected item or whole list

• provides statistics about hosts, disks and status

• logs events happened on any client (for example, high temperature, low health, new drive inserted or existing drive removed - it is possible to keep track of removable drives/pendrives)

• any combination of alerts (tray icon "bubble", sound, message on screen, network message, e-mail) can be associated for any event

• displays global log or log for a selected client

• automatic and manual update of information

• remote control features (start short and extended self test on remote hard disks)

• easy configuration and host setup - add single hosts, all hosts from domain/workgroup or by an IP range

• intuitive, easy to use, multilingual user interface

• used/free space details [*]

• showing and highlighting worst disks (lowest health and highest temperature) [*]

• customisable task bar icons showing worst health and highest temperature [*]

  

• more displaying and filtering/managing options [*]

• removing hosts from monitoring and archiving host information for re-use [*]

• execute configured projects on remote host(s) [*]

• verify project execution and results [*]

• remote configuration of Hard Disk Sentinel software running on the clients and auto-apply configuration on selected clients [*]

• manage any number of disks remotely (change acoustic levels, tests) [*]

• detailed statistics with graphical display (chart) of information provided by clients: checking how disk health/temperature/free space or system-parameters (CPU/RAM/Virtual memory usage) changes with time [*]

• Linux client (daemon) is also available which can be monitored from the Enterprise Server [*]

• Dashboard function: showing most important information on highly visible indicators [*]

[*] : Not available in the downloadable DEMO version

Quick Setup

To start monitoring the clients (if the Accept remote connections from server option is enabled), just start the application and select Configure client hosts. Add hosts (for example, use Add Domain/workgroup, and select the workgroup to monitor the local network). Test the connection to make sure there are no problems (no firewall issues) and then just press the "Play" button to start monitoring.

Screenshots

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Feedback

"Hard Disk Sentinel Enterprise Server is the perfect tool to monitor our IT environment in the network. It helped us to find out possible issues and we had the opportunity to replace disks and modify the configurations to prevent data loss. It helped to find out systems operating at very high temperatures and we could do all steps to eliminate such problems also. With the provided details and the alerts it helps our administrators and saves lots of time and energy of both our staff and our colleagues. Doing this without consuming any noticeable resources on the client systems or on the network itself."

Bethesda - Children's Hospital of Hungarian Reformed Church