LaceWatcher PRO

Central Fragmentation Monitoring and Control management tool

Managing the data quality of your disks will slow the aging process of your computers, and you'll find yourself spending less money on computers upgrade.

Use it first with old computers that you plan  to replace, and you will be surprised to see that some of them need not be replaced now. They call it "An instant ROI".

A single copy of the software product will support all your organization.

 

Screens and main options walk-through:

1. Main LaceWatcher PRO screen

Every line in the above picture describes the fragmentation level of a single disk in a workstation or server. Having this unique view you now understand where the bottlenecks of your system are. The columns titles are used to sort the lines accordingly.

Having  LaceWatcher-PRO installed, you will be able to implement preventive maintenance procedures on computers. It means a lot of money.

The "LOAD" column is a combined number of the disk utilization and the fragmentation level, and the highest the number is, this user disk needs attention,

The "LABEL" column was added to assist the user to group the lined by functional use. It is updated using the SETTING option, and the screen can be sorted accordingly.

The add and remove keywords are used to choose Servers or Stations to be managed. You may use Name, IP address or drag&drop from the network folder. (If you do not have administrator credentials, you may still check it using the "My Computer" option shown below)

• What is the "Lacelevel" Factor? 

2. Network at a glance.

Pressing the ANALYZE Button after LaceWatcher PRO completed checking all the volumes will plot the distribution of the fragmentation results of your network (The red columns) compared with those of the distribution of all the other users in the world (The blue columns). The following sample describes a real situation of a customer having more than 100 disks controlled by LaceWatcher PRO. In this example you can see, that the average fragmentation is not higher than the global average, but it is more extreme, and shows many computers with a high fragmentation level. This customer will have to examine the machines with the high fragmentation level in which a maintenance has to be done.

The data used to plot the blue columns information  is  being collected from users of the technology. Those results are continuously being collected and used to refresh the data. Pressing the ANALYZE button in LaceWatcher PRO creates an internet query from  www.disklace.com for the latest data.

Users that cannot use this option because they do not have access to the internet from the machine running LaceWatcher PRO can bypass this option, but they will not get the latest results. They can receive from us the source code of the HTML query that we are using to create the graph and will have to insert it to any CGI supported library, with the name of CGI-BIN.

There is an option In LaceWatcher PRO (hiding behind the ANALYZE button) in which the destination address of the call can be re-directed.  Please contact us for the latest fragmentation distribution code.
 

3. The ALERT SETUP screen.

Alerts can be send to several destinations:

Option 1. Event log alerts is added to the system log (Right-click on My computer -> Manage -> Alerts)

Option 2. External application has to be written to handle alerts. The format is very simple and already  demonstrated with leading Asset Management software.

Software vendors that already tested receiving alerts from LaceWatcher PRO are: CA-Unicenter, IBM-Tivoli, HP-OM). Please note in the following example a simple way to practice this option with the "msg *" command. 

3. Send Alerts to any e-mail. Please note that the alerts will be sent from disklace.com, so a stable internet connection is required.

For enterprise users: If your installation PROXY is configured  with AUTOMATIC DETECT SETTING option, it will prevent sending this type of alerts, and it needs therefore to be adjusted for the computer running LaceWatcher PRO by your network manager.

4. Managing alert filters

Select a disk and double-click or click on the settings keyword. Several disks may be selected (Ctrl + Click) in order to apply the same change.

Choose the duration of the fragmentation check and the level requested to send an alert when passed.

In order to run the standard defragmentation program on a disk if the lacelevel is higher than the defined filter, you have to mark the option. A  Second Level Alert will be generated if the results of defragmentation did not improve the situation. In this case further actions has to be taken.

Warning: If you chose to use this option, you have to remember that fragmentation is a very long process, so you are strongly advised to change the "At:" parameter time in which the scan and defrag will happen, in order not to disturb your user.

5. History

Clicking on the HISTORY button will open a ".CSV" file for the selected disk.

More than one line can be selected and each disk will be presented in a separate columns to allow manipulation and presentations of the fragmentation progress.

6. Scientific Background is available here .

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