Peer Monitor is a highly-features, easy-to-use and reliable ping based network monitor.

Peer Monitor is ideal for home LAN or office network and features email & sound alerts, refresh rate that can be set to any period, dynamic DNS, built-in user support, logs activities.

Fully configurable - ICMP options, can also run in system tray.

NOTE: free registration is required to get the activation code.

Here are some key features of "Peer Monitor":

· Simple to use - A red, orange, or green light is displayed next to the names of your chosen hosts immediatly indicates status:
· Email alerts - Have an email sent to you when a (given) host come up or goes down. The tolerance before a warning email is sent is user-specifiable (for example, allow 3 failures before emailing you)
· Sound alerts - A chosen or default sound plays for any hosts YOU CHOOSE to use sound when they are red.
· Easy to configure - A dedicated program, PMConfig, allows you to list your hosts and resolve to IPs and change all the settings. PM uses IPs rather than real hostnames as this allows you to use FRIENDLY names on the program interface - for example, "Firewall" is easier to read and identify than "192.168.92.32"
· Debugging information - When a host is green you can click the button to see its round trip time (time the ping request took to respond)
· When it is red you can see the reason WHY the ping was returned - subnet not available, request timed out, bad address, etc.
· ICMP options - You can specify the useful ICMP options - time out and packet size:
· Built-in help - The program has help built-in, and lets you post a support call via email or to the forum directly from the program interface.
· Dynamic DNS - You can not only resolve host names during configuration time but specify that these host names must be resolved dynamically at startup and periodically.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Added Email alerts
· Added dynamic DNS
· Added TraceRoot button
· Added Minimise to system tray button
· Added measurement of trip time rather than relying on ICMP.dll
· Added Fail Count display
· Added logging
· Added ability to specify ICMP string length
· Merged mail/sound/hosts config files into one
· Changed mail/sound checkboxes so they become disabled rather than invisible when mail/sound disabled
· Changed the location of the registry options to be HKLM, since if a second user uninstalled PM, the first user's HKCU settings were not removed. This means that NT users share the same settings now, but this is no big deal as they have to use the sames host list anyway!
· Allowed use of sound alerts when at least on of your CHOSEN hosts is red.
· Fixed error where null or invalid lines in config file caused fatal errors.
· Displays ICMP round trip time.
· Fixed bug in 1.5 where a refresh rate over 60sec caused a fatal error (oops).
· Added registration requirement
· Use of Orange hosts. If a ping ...