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San Jose 31 Aug, 2009 Monitis Inc., a premier provider of centralized systems monitoring in the cloud, today announces a new important release for its on-demand load testing service. New version of Monitis’ WebLoadTester allows database performance management and load testing from the cloud.

The new release of the Monitis’ WebLoadTester allows generation of the load for popular databases such as open source MySQL, Oracle, MS SQL, DB2 and others from the cloud. Usually it is the database that interferes with performance bottlenecks in the system and often just a single SQL query will be able to destroy the performance of the whole application. WebLoadTester makes database performance tuning simpler and affordable for application developers, database administrators (DBA), performance and quality engineers.

Applications load and performance testing are considered by many to be the “killer application”for cloud computing. WebLoadTester already supports both static and script based http load tests and supports SOAP load testing for service oriented architectures (SOA). WebLoadTester makes the load testing affordable for all kinds of businesses. The price per test is estimated to be as low as $4.18 per test with the use of  Monitis load tester. A user just has to enter the parameters of a database connection and queries, which he/she is keen to load and test metrics for. With a single click the load test will get started and the performance report will be generated. Then through e-mails it will be sent to the users and will be reachable on the web. These tests can be saved and recurrently executed by the users.

Professional Web testing requires effective resource monitoring. Monitis systems performance monitoring oversees utilization of resources such as databases, application servers, load balancers, and firewalls. During load tests, usage information about these resources can be collected and analyzed. When problems arise, you will need information about how resources are used throughout the entire structure of your Web application. “Our goal is to provide our customers an easy and cost efficient centralized performance management in the cloud, so that there is no need of purchasing, deploying and maintaining multiple servers, tools and services.” says Hovhannes Avoyan, CEO of Monitis.

About Monitis Performance Monitor

Monitis Performance Monitor is an industry leading comprehensive, affordable, scalable, fault and performance management platform.  Monitis Performance Monitor monitors, collects and analyzes information from websites, servers, routers, switches, VoIP devices, DNS, databases, processes and any other IP devices providing users with a comprehensive view of their system health.  Open sourced Monitis plug-in with powerful API’s allow the users to extend Monitis powerful monitoring and management capabilities.  Users can be assured of always on reliable service as Monitis Performance Monitor is deployed across the world providing resilient service.

About Monitis

Monitis is a leading provider of affordable performance monitoring and management in the cloud. More than 50,000 customers spanning small businesses, Fortune 500 companies, government agencies and education institutions have chosen Monitis to reduce system downtime, improve IT administrator productivity, and reduce operational expenditure.  Monitis is radically changing system monitoring and management landscape by providing easy to use, affordable, flexible (deployment configurations include: shared, internal cloud and external cloud), and simple to manage SaaS performance monitoring and management solution. For more information, please visit http://www.monitis.com

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San Jose 26 Aug, 2009 Monitis Inc., a leading provider of hosted enterprise-class systems management software, launched a new cloud monitoring service. Monitis provides user-friendly, cost-effective systems monitoring through a software-as-service approach. Monitis’ on-demand cloud monitoring service is now enhanced through Amazon S3 monitoring. This new ability, Monitis S3 Monitoring, lets the customers independently monitor their S3 usage and storage, and notifies customers when they reach prescribed thresholds. Monitis thus provides its customers with greater access and control over the cloud infrastructure.

The Simple Storage Service, or S3, is an online storage service, offered by Amazon’s Web Services division. Amazon S3 uses a simple web interface to provide unlimited data storage. This was the first web service that Amazon offered to the public, first in the United States in March 2006 and then in Europe in November 2007. Amazon has charged users monthly by the gigabyte, with additional charge for each get or put request and for bandwidth used to send and receive stored data. There are an estimated 52 billion objects stored on Amazon S3 as of March 2009. S3 also includes image and web hosting and a back-up for its storage.

Monitis already provides EC2 monitoring, and now adds S3 storage service monitoring as well. This gives Monitis the ability to show its users graphical displays illustrating the number of objects in each virtual folder (known as buckets), their total size, the number of virtual folders, and the number of objects in each bucket etc. Users can set notification rules for each metric that Monitis monitors. They can choose to be notified by Twitter, instant messaging, SMS, and/or email when any threshold is reached.

Monitis is an independent service that can be used by business administrators and IT managers to monitor and exercise control over their Amazon cloud usage. Cloud computing customers do not typically own the physical assets that store their software. Instead, cloud computing customers usually pay for only what they use, and enjoy the cloud resource as a service. Cloud customers need more visibility into the cloud than other service users, to make sure that their software is running properly. The Monitis cloud monitoring system allows customers this transparency, giving users management and monitoring capabilities comparable to those enjoyed with in-house systems.

According to Hovhannes Avoyan, CEO of Monitis, “On-demand cloud computing is at high demand now and needs for cloud monitoring is explicit. We cannot ignore the request and we provide fast, easy, affordable tool to address these needs”. Users who sign up for Monitis receive access to Monitis Cloud, which is a web-centric on-demand software that does not require any downloads. This is a service beneficial to those who provide IT services, and businesses ranging from small to enterprise-level.

About Monitis Performance Monitor

Monitis Performance Monitor is an industry leading comprehensive, affordable, scalable, fault and performance management platform.  Monitis Performance Monitor monitors, collects and analyzes information from websites, servers, routers, switches, VoIP devices, DNS, databases, processes and any other IP devices providing users with a comprehensive view of their system health.  Open sourced Monitis plug-in with powerful API’s allow tbe users to extend Monitis powerful monitoring and management capabilities.  Users can be assured of always on reliable service as Monitis Performance Monitor is deployed across the world providing resilient service.

About Monitis

Monitis is a leading provider of affordable performance monitoring and management solution. More than 50,000 customers spanning small businesses, Fortune 500 companies, government agencies and education institutions have chosen Monitis to reduce system downtime, improve IT administrator productivity, and reduce operational expenditure.  Monitis is radically changing system monitoring and management landscape by providing easy to use, affordable, flexible (deployment configurations include: shared, internal cloud and external cloud), and simple to manage SaaS performance monitoring and management solution. For more information, please visit http://www.monitis.com

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San Jose 18 Aug, 2009 Monitis Inc., a leading provider of hosted enterprise-class systems management software, today releases a unique web monitoring ecosystem visualization service helping IT engineers and managers understanding their networks better in terms of status, health and manageability.

Today’s businesses regardless of size use large web infrastructures with various hosts, applications and hosting locations. Each application itself contains numerous critical URLs to be monitored for availability and performance. In average Monitis’ users monitor 30 URLs per account and occasionally significantly more, and these URLs are located in multiple hosts. After evolution of applications and infrastructure, it is becoming exigent to keep track of URLs, their monitors and which URL resides on which host. It was also hard to understand which URLs were monitored, how and what is the contemporary status – users have to get the impression of navigating multiple charts and tables to get the entire picture. Things can catch even more complex with the usage of virtualization and cloud computing, with more vibrant distributed infrastructure.

New Monitis WebMap visualization tool is an easy to use tool ideal for IT business needs. The tool helps in understanding the network better in terms of status, health monitoring and the ability to deal with failures in a timelier manner. This tool allows easy movement between parents and sub-maps and has the ability to zoom in and out. A multilevel geographical color picture of the web infrastructure can be created. This allows the user to determine the status of the network by looking at the icons provided. By using the Monitis web-interface, IP subnets and hosts that the user has added for monitoring purposes can be viewed. If desired, a large, high-quality topology map can be printed for the IT administrator.

“As we see it, our job is to make life easier for IT specialists and managers by automating the task of holistic web ecosystem monitoring. Our new Monitoring WebMap allows the users to get a level of control and visibility that they have never had before, without raising the cost of monitoring” says Hovhannes Avoyan, CEO of Monitis “Users will be able to see the status of their entire networks within a few seconds.” This new service will be available for Monitis’ customers without charge. “Regardless of summer vacation time we were releasing new features almost weekly and are departing to deliver more features very quickly for our customers satisfaction” adds the CEO.

About Monitis Performance Monitor

Monitis Performance Monitor is an industry leading comprehensive, affordable, scalable, fault and performance management platform.  Monitis Performance Monitor monitors, collects and analyzes information from websites, servers, routers, switches, VoIP devices, DNS, databases, processes and any other IP devices providing users with a comprehensive view of their system health.  Open sourced Monitis plug-in with powerful API’s allow the users to extend Monitis powerful monitoring and management capabilities.  Users can be assured of always on reliable service as Monitis Performance Monitor is deployed across the world providing resilient service.

About Monitis

Monitis is a leading provider of affordable performance monitoring and management solution. More than 50,000 customers spanning small businesses, Fortune 500 companies, government agencies and education institutions have chosen Monitis to reduce system downtime, improve IT administrator productivity, and reduce operational expenditure.  Monitis is radically changing system monitoring and management landscape by providing easy to use, affordable, flexible (deployment configurations include: shared, internal cloud and external cloud), and simple to manage SaaS performance monitoring and management solution. For more information, please visit http://www.monitis.com

Monitis EC2 End-to-end Applications Performance and Availability Monitoring and Management has recently listed in Amazon Web Services Solutions Catalog under Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud.

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San Jose 12 Aug, 2009 Monitis Inc., a leading provider of enterprise-class systems management software as a service, added a sitemap generation to Links-Checker, its free websites’ links monitoring service.

Free Links-Checker service from Monitis now not only can validate your sites’ links, but also can generate a sitemap. A site map (or sitemap) is a list of pages of a web site accessible to crawlers or users. Sitemaps can improve search engine optimization of a site by making sure that all the pages can be found. This is especially important if a site uses dynamic access to content such as Adobe Flash or JavaScript menus that do not include HTML links. They also act as a navigation aid by providing an overview of a site’s content at a single glance. Links-Checker generates any kind of sitemap you require: XML, Text, HTML and ROR.

To get the best search engine placement possible for your website a site map may be necessary. The site maps first purpose of course is to make navigating the pages of your site easy for the site’s human visitors. The site map also provides the search engine spiders an easier navigation of your site. In this regard when a spider visits your page and is unable to easily navigate or find the information about web page content, when the page was last updated and the relation the pages have with one another, the spider will leave the site and your page will lose this opportunity to be listed in search engine result pages.

Google Sitemaps was introduced by Google to make it easier for website designers to publish the entire list of links from all of their pages. The Sitemaps protocol is now supported through cooperation between Ask Now, MSN, Google, and Yahoo. Sitemaps uses the premise that many pages on websites have dynamic content that can only be accessed through user entries and completed forms. The sitemap files can then indicate to web crawlers, such as those used by search engine, how to locate all of these pages.

If users want to tell Google and other search engines about your Sitemap, simply add the following line ‘Sitemap: http://links-checker.com/sitemaps/yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml’ (i.e. http://links-checker.com/sitemap/google.com/sitemap.xml) to websites’ robots.txt file. Using Links-Checker’s novel features, site owners can ensure that their site map is fresh at all times. Keeping site maps synchronized by including the new contents added to the web site, may take time. Links-checker will crawl your web pages and will renew your site map, at least once daily. Hence, users can ensure that search engines like Google get the latest site map. Thus, users will be optimizing their web sites for indexing and search.

About Monitis Performance Monitor

Monitis Performance Monitor is an industry leading comprehensive, affordable, scalable, fault and performance management platform.  Monitis Performance Monitor monitors, collects and analyzes information from websites, servers, routers, switches, VoIP devices, DNS, databases, processes and any other IP devices providing users with a comprehensive view of their system health.  Open sourced Monitis plug-in with powerful API’s allow the users to extend Monitis powerful monitoring and management capabilities.  Users can be assured of always on reliable service as Monitis Performance Monitor is deployed across the world providing resilient service.

About Monitis

Monitis is a leading provider of affordable performance monitoring and management solution. More than 50,000 customers spanning small businesses, Fortune 500 companies, government agencies and education institutions have chosen Monitis to reduce system downtime, improve IT administrator productivity, and reduce operational expenditure.  Monitis is radically changing system monitoring and management landscape by providing easy to use, affordable, flexible (deployment configurations include: shared, internal cloud and external cloud), and simple to manage SaaS performance monitoring and management solution. For more information, please visit http://www.monitis.com

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San Jose 10 Aug, 2009 Monitis Inc., a leading provider of enterprise-class systems management software as a service, announces a cloud-based SOAP testing service.

Today, Monitis has made the first cloud-based SOAP testing service available for on-demand Web services and applications load testing. This is the latest update for Monitis’ WebLoadTester testing suite, and is specifically intended for applications of Service Oriented Architecture. The suite offers SOAP load testing with simulated heavy traffic in real time, allowing webmasters to determine how performance can be optimized. This should lead to a better integration of SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) applications and generally improved productivity. Test cycles will be shortened, and the development and delivery of complicated applications with minimal offline time will be greatly accelerated.

The term SOAP is short for Simple Object Access Protocol. It refers to the means by which structured information may be exchanged in computer networks to allow for web services to be offered. SOAP is the primary protocol for service-oriented architecture (SOA) principles that allows systems development and integration to proceed more smoothly, allowing functions to be provided as services to customers. The travel industry will see major benefits, just as one example, because any software engineer will now be able to pull services off the shelf to put together a complete suite of travel agent software. The finance industry and many others have had their development cycle similarly eased. WebLoadTester will analyze the efficiency and throughput of the delivery channel, as it operates beyond corporate firewalls.

Web-based applications in general, and Business-to-Business (B2B) applications in particular, usually have Service Level Agreements (SLAs). As an increasing number of business computer applications move onto the Web, many of them now exchange information with no interface through a Web browser. As an example, a travel agency may make a request from the airline’s Web server to determine whether a specific flight from Chicago to Dallas is available. A sample SLA might require that query to receive a response in no more than five seconds. Contractual penalties are often set if SLAs are violated. WebLoadTester helps both the service providers and users to be more confident in their applications’ availability and performance.

Performance engineers, architects, developers, DBAs, quality assurance testers, and many others have generally been required to test and improve the performance of Web-based enterprise applications. The company’s CEO, Hovhannes Avoyan believes that this task is now greatly simplified. “With SOAP testing on demand, Web developers, systems integrators, and enterprise service providers will not have to invest nearly as much time and effort in testing their software and hardware to ensure reliability” says Avoyan. Automated load testing usually requires a performance engineer to find the hardware to test, set up load agents on multiple computers, configure the load agents, run the tests, and compile the performance reports. With WebLoadTester test scenarios can be defined and executed within minutes, and the total cost of ownership of load testing tools will be significantly reduced. This service charges per the usage and hence there is no need to invest in very costly infrastructure.

About Monitis Performance Monitor

Monitis Performance Monitor is an industry leading comprehensive, affordable, scalable, fault and performance management platform.  Monitis Performance Monitor monitors, collects and analyzes information from websites, servers, routers, switches, VoIP devices, DNS, databases, processes and any other IP devices providing users with a comprehensive view of their system health.  Open sourced Monitis plug-in with powerful API’s allow users to extend Monitis powerful monitoring and management capabilities.  Users can be assured of always on reliable service as Monitis Performance Monitor is deployed across the world providing resilient service.

About Monitis

Monitis is a leading provider of affordable performance monitoring and management solution. More than 50,000 customers spanning small businesses, Fortune 500 companies, government agencies and education institutions have chosen Monitis to reduce system downtime, improve IT administrator productivity, and reduce operational expenditure.  Monitis is radically changing system monitoring and management landscape by providing easy to use, affordable, flexible (deployment configurations include: shared, internal cloud and external cloud), and simple to manage SaaS performance monitoring and management solution. For more information, please visit http://www.monitis.com

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San Jose 5 Aug, 2009 Monitis Inc., a leading provider of enterprise-class systems management software as a service, released today a mobile availability and performance monitoring application called Monitis Mobile Monitoring Agent (MMMA) for Android-powered phones. This mobile monitoring agent is available free of charge, and will make it much easier and faster to find, diagnose, and resolve problems with mobile Web application availability and performance. The MMA allows the web content providers to see the levels of performance and availability that their end users will encounter.

The Mobile Agent from Monitis is autonomous software that users must download from the Android marketplace; it will come at no cost. Mobile Agent can diagnose problems with access to the Web on any mobile network or device once an IP address or URL is provided. It independently tests and monitors mobile content, applications, and services on different phone and networks worldwide, alerting users if difficulties are encountered. The user may request probes at regular intervals, and the Agent will get response times for HTTP requests to URLs that the user designates. This measurement and testing solution will allow mobile providers to compare their service to competitors’ in many different markets free of charge.

Android, initially developed by Google Inc., is a Linux-based software for mobile phones with inbuilt operating system, middleware and key applications. Till now, the only available Android phone in the US is G1, made by HTC Corp., Taiwan for T-Mobile. By the end of this year, many smart phones from Motorola Inc., Samsung Electronics Co., LG Electronics Inc. and others are expected to hit the US market.

The Monitis Mobile Agent is intended for use by infrastructure providers, wireless carriers and aggregators, and enterprise businesses. It will make it easier for these firms to establish and maintain standards of performance, to keep up with the competition. The Android agent is another instance of Monitis’ commitment to make sure its programs are easy to use and understand, provide all the features its users need, and come free or at a reasonable price. The goal is to make it easier for mobile providers to give their users the best possible experience.

“In the mobile world, establishing and maintaining the highest standards of service performance is of paramount importance in building and retaining customer loyalty,” said Hovhannes Avoyan, CEO of Monitis Inc. “Monitis Mobile Monitoring Agent delivers unmatched insight into the mobile performance issues and trends of the popular mobile data services that matter today and those that will drive revenue growth in the future.”

About Monitis Performance Monitor

Monitis Performance Monitor is an industry leading comprehensive, affordable, scalable, fault and performance management platform.  Monitis Performance Monitor monitors, collects and analyzes information from websites, servers, routers, switches, VoIP devices, DNS, databases, processes and any other IP devices providing users with a comprehensive view of their system health.  Open sourced Monitis plug-in with powerful API’s allow users to extend Monitis powerful monitoring and management capabilities. Users can be assured of always on reliable service as Monitis Performance Monitor is deployed across the world providing resilient service.

About Monitis

Monitis is a leading provider of affordable performance monitoring and management solution. More than 50,000 customers spanning small businesses, Fortune 500 companies, government agencies and education institutions have chosen Monitis to reduce system downtime, improve IT administrator productivity, and reduce operational expenditure.  Monitis is radically changing system monitoring and management landscape by providing easy to use, affordable, flexible (deployment configurations include: shared, internal cloud and external cloud), and simple to manage SaaS performance monitoring and management solution. For more information, please visit http://www.monitis.com

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San Jose 03 August, 2009 Monitis Inc., a leading provider of enterprise-class systems management software as a service, today announces several significant performance and usability improvements for its real time web-based monitoring dashboard.

Monitis is always trying to make its systems monitoring service easier to understand and to use. Toward that end, Monitis is announcing several new features. A step-by-step program wizard will make it easier for novices to install the software, while the experienced users will find that it is now more productive. The wizard will guide users through external website, network, email, and VoIP monitoring settings. Many URLs can be added to the system and monitored at once by webmasters and administrators. In addition, multiple protocols (such as HTTP, FTP, SSH, POP3, and MySQL) can be added in one step if all are on the same server. The wizard will make the installation process easier to comprehend, and monitoring can now be set up within minutes.

Default graphical chart views have also been improved. Customers have frequently requested a continuous last 24 hour view, showing the previous 24 hours metrics instead of just the current day’s view. It will show round-the-clock performance and allow the customers to analyze performance degradation. When a customer opens the system in the morning, he can check the complete previous night’s performance. Chart refreshes have also been optimized so that the last data will be shown in real-time without any visible refreshing of the chart. Monitis will thus be more lightweight and will consume less memory while improving overall application performance, a frequently expressed customer complaint.

According to Monitis CEO Hovhannes Avoyan, the company’s largest priority is to make their web-based dashboard easier to use and make it perform better in real time. “We are running customer surveys every couple of months, and these two improvements were highlighted by our customers as top priority ones. We are committed to make the user experience as smooth as possible,” Avoyan said. Users have recently been introduced to many exciting and novel improvements and more are set to come by summer’s end.

About Monitis Performance Monitor

Monitis Performance Monitor is an industry leading comprehensive, affordable, scalable, fault and performance management platform.  Monitis Performance Monitor monitors, collects and analyzes information from websites, servers, routers, switches, VoIP devices, DNS, databases, processes and any other IP devices providing users with a comprehensive view of their system health.  Open sourced Monitis plug-in with powerful API’s allow users to extend Monitis powerful monitoring and management capabilities.  Users can be assured of always on reliable service as Monitis Performance Monitor is deployed across the world providing resilient service.

About Monitis

Monitis is a leading provider of affordable performance monitoring and management solution. More than 50,000 customers spanning small businesses, Fortune 500 companies, government agencies and education institutions have chosen Monitis to reduce system downtime, improve IT administrator productivity, and reduce operational expenditure.  Monitis is radically changing system monitoring and management landscape by providing easy to use, affordable, flexible (deployment configurations include: shared, internal cloud and external cloud), and simple to manage SaaS performance monitoring and management solution. For more information, please visit http://www.monitis.com

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San Jose 22 July, 2009 Monitis Inc., a leading provider of enterprise-class systems management software as a service, launches a command line interface for its premiere on-demand cloud-based monitoring platform. Command-line tools will make the job of IT systems administrators automated and productive.

Utilizing the command line is the quickest, simplest, and most efficient way to get a job done.  While many computer users have become dependent on graphics-based programs, the most skilled and accomplished computer users know that the command line (i.e., terminal) is still the best tool for getting the job done.  With a few key tools and computer skills any computer user can take advantage of the benefits of using the command line with the help of Monitis.  Monitis’ Command Line Tools (Monitis CLT) running from the Linux/UNIX or Windows command line allows the user to easily run most Monitis tasks and functions through use of the Monitis API in place of a web interface.

A CLI or command-line interface gives users the ability to interact with a computer’s operating system or software by typing simple commands.  Experienced users, programmers, network and system administrators, and those in scientific fields most often make use of CLI, although those with visual impairments also find the type-based nature of CLI useful.  CLI offers two distinct advantages to users overall:  the ability to script a set of commands to perform tasks or executables and the ability to work faster with fewer commands than a GUI user.

Although Monitis CLT is still in an early version, there are still many services available to users, ranging from a list of monitoring locations, a list of added monitors, performance monitoring results, and top issues in overall tests. They can also build their own workflows using shell scripts. The output can be saved as a plain text file or as comma separated values (CSV). The files can be later opened in Excel or Word for performance or failure root cause analysis. In the future, Monitis will support all the functions available in the web version.

The benefits of Monitis command line tools are amazing.  Whether you are an IT developer or administrator, you will enjoy a number of convenient features.  Easy integration with our enterprise software, automated management duties, use of Excel or Word to review performance data, fast and convenient terminal interface access (especially convenient for Linux/Unix administrators), and the ability to make custom enhancements to Monitis functions, are all part of the experience.  Users can use the web application interface or Monitis portal to download the tools.  Monitis command line tools go beyond the existing Monitis iGoogle widgets and Firefox plug-in.  IT professionals will find innovative ways to manage data on how well the system is functioning.

About Monitis Performance Monitor
Monitis Performance Monitor is an industry leading comprehensive, affordable, scalable, fault and performance management platform.  Monitis Performance Monitor monitors, collects and analyzes information from websites, servers, routers, switches, VoIP devices, DNS, databases, processes and any other IP devices providing users with a comprehensive view of their system health.  Open sourced Monitis plug-in with powerful API’s allow users to extend Monitis powerful monitoring and management capabilities.  Users can be assured of always on reliable service as Monitis Performance Monitor is deployed across the world providing resilient service.
About Monitis
Monitis is a leading provider of affordable performance monitoring and management solution. More than 50,000 customers spanning small businesses, Fortune 500 companies, government agencies and education institutions have chosen Monitis to reduce system downtime, improve IT administrator productivity, and reduce operational expenditure.  Monitis is radically changing system monitoring and management landscape by providing easy to use, affordable, flexible (deployment configurations include: shared, internal cloud and external cloud), and simple to manage SaaS performance monitoring and management solution. For more information, please visit http://www.monitis.com