Weave is an iPhone-centric monitoring and remote management app for Windows-based hosts. Using an agent installed on each Windows host, Weave is able to alert iPhone users to performance issues and can assist in the remote resolution of those issues.
Weave provides audit information (e.g. operating system, physical memory, interfaces, etc) for each host running the Weave System Agent, as well as performance and capacity data. In addition, the Weave System Agent can accept requests from the iPhone, enabling remote shutdown of processes, service configuration changes, as well as host restarts and shutdowns.
In environments running at least two Weave System Agents, availability monitoring is also provided through ping tests conducted by each agent against its peers.
The Weave System Agent is completely free and can be installed on any number of hosts within your environment. Multiple copies of the Weave iPhone app can be purchased and utilized by your entire team to view the hosts that you are monitoring.
Through Push Notification (and optional email notification) all team members are alerted to problems when they occur.
Getting Up And Running
1) Purchase the Weave iPhone app and use the app to create an Account for your company, as well as a User for yourself. Additional members of your team who purchase the app can use the same Account, with their own User.
2) Download and install the Weave System Agent on at least one host within your organisation. Additional hosts can be added at any time.
3) Run the Weave Config Generator on each host where the Weave System Agent is installed. WeaveConfig assists in creating the configuration file needed for successful agent operation.
4) Start the Weave service following configuration. In future, the service will start automatically when the host is booted.
5) Re-launch the Weave iPhone app and ensure that your monitored hosts are reporting in.