ProSight LAN Watch is Progent's remote monitoring and management (RMM) service that allows small and mid-size organizations to outsource server and PC management for a low monthly price. ProSight LAN Watch automates and streamlines tasks such as proactive monitoring and maintenance, asset inventory, software distribution, patching, and troubleshooting. Formerly named ZENO, ProSight LAN Watch incorporates best-practices intelligence for proactively monitoring Windows-powered servers and desktops. As soon as ProSight LAN Watch detects a problem, an alert is sent to your designated IT staff and your assigned Progent consultant so that any looming issues can be resolved before they impair or crash your network. On monitored computers, a single click can create a prioritized trouble ticket for Progent's Technical Response Center (TRC).
ProSight LAN Watch can be integrated with ProSight Data Protection Services local and offsite backup monitors. This adds a high-level overview of your recent backups and cloud storage from the ProSight LAN Watch portal. ProSight LAN Watch can optionally be configured to track the health of other IP-enabled assets like routers, switches, printers and telecommunications equipment. If there is a weak spot in your network, ProSight LAN Watch will find it.
ProSight LAN Watch offers a range of services to help you manage your information system by keeping tabs on the availability, performance and security of your entire IT ecosystem. Services available with ProSight LAN Watch include:
- Proactive monitoring of Windows, Linux and Mac systems, plus smartphones
- Standard and custom SNMP monitors
- Monitor the health of critical applications and server roles including Exchange, SQL Server and AD
- Standard and customizable alert thresholds and remediation scripts, all with full automation
- Equipment status and state information from a web-accessible dashboard
- Hardware and software Inventory reporting
- Advanced trend analysis
- Optional patch management with automated staged patching
- Single-click trouble tickets for priority help from Progent's Technical Response Center (TRC)
- 100s of built-in report options plus custom reporting
In addition to providing proactive monitoring to detect technical issues, ProSight LAN Watch can help identify obsolete, under utilized, and stressed equipment. ProSight LAN Watch can also help you track hardware warranty and software license information and generate alerts for impending expirations to simplify asset management.
An Affordable and Effective RMM Solution
ProSight LAN Watch RMM services are available for a small one-time setup cost and an affordable monthly charge based on the services provided and the number of computers monitored. If remediation services are called for, they can either be handled by your internal IT staff or by Progent's network engineers on a time-and-material basis. With more than 20 years of experience providing RMM services to businesses throughout the U.S., Progent's network engineers have the knowledge needed to set up and analyze ProSight LAN Watch alerts and reports and the skills required to resolve problems quickly based on industry best practices.
ProSight LAN Watch includes 100's of built-in commands for remote server and desktop management
ProSight LAN Watch is integrated with Progent's ConnectWise ticketing system. With a ProSight LAN Watch agent installed on a server/workstation, a single click can create a prioritized TRC ticket or start a chat with a TRC engineer, who can resolve the problem using the ScreenConnect remote control tool. In most cases, potential problems can be resolved without interrupting your end users.
Summary of ProSight LAN Watch Features and Benefits
ProSight LAN Watch represents a powerful and affordable Remote Monitoring and Management solution by providing a unique combination of asset discovery and extensive, actionable reporting. ProSight LAN Watch's benefits include:
- Reduce IT support costs
- Improve network availability
- Avoid hardware warranty and software license expirations
- Keep your IT management focused on strategic issues, not on network maintenance
- Optimize the utilization of your critical network assets
- Get the insight you need for efficient capacity planning
- Partner with Progent's world-class team of network experts
Sample Reports from ProSight LAN Watch
The following links allow you to view or download sample reports available with Progent's ProSight LAN Watch remote monitoring and management service.
- Asset Summary Report: Displays a summary of all network assets, followed by detailed lists grouped by each monitored device type.
Click here to view or download the sample Asset Summary Report. (PDF, 351 Kb, 6 pages).
- Client Health Standards: Lists a summary of your current health status, recent asset activity, and a concise asset analysis. Includes a graph of devices that are currently operating within standards.
Click here to view or download the sample Client Health Standards Report. (PDF, 188 Kb, 3 pages).
- Computer Audit: Displays a detailed overview of a computer.
Click here to view or download the sample Computer Audit Report. (PDF, 509 Kb, 7 pages).
- Computer Health Standards: For each monitored computer, displays details about the latest scans for standards and health checks.
Click here to view or download the sample Computer Health Standards Report. (PDF, 632 Kb, 10 pages).
- Patch Compliance: Displays the patch compliance of your systems, and details each device and patch that is non-compliant.
Click here to view or download the sample Patch Compliance Report. (PDF, 199 Kb, 3 pages).
- Software List Displays a list of applications installed on each monitored computer.
Click here to view or download the sample Software List Report. (PDF, 1,581 Kb, 17 pages).
- Ticket Summary: Displays Progent's client ticket statistics and charts for the past 30 days, followed by a list of ticket activity.
Click here to view or download the sample Ticket Summary Report. (PDF, 380 Kb, 5 pages).
Download Progent's ProSight LAN Watch: Remote Monitoring and Management Datasheet
To download a single-page datasheet in PDF format describing Progent's ProSight LAN Watch RMM services, click:
Progent's ProSight LAN Watch Server and Desktop Monitoring and Management Services Datasheet. (PDF - 95 KB)
ProSight Network Audit Advanced: Deep-Dive Network Health Audit with Active Directory Cleanup Report
ProSight LAN Watch is the remote monitoring tool behind Progent's ProSight Network Audit Advanced service. This affordable infrastructure health review provides a professional assessment of how closely your network configuration follows industry best practices. The audit includes an Active Directory (AD) Cleanup report that identifies any problems found in your AD deployment and suggests remediation. The ProSight Network Audit Advanced comes with one year of Progent's ProSight LAN Watch network monitoring service. To learn more about ProSight Network Audit Advanced, see ProSight Network Audit Advanced.
Additional ProSight Managed Services Offered by Progent
Progent's ProSight suite of network management services includes other affordable, flat-rate managed service packages designed to help small and mid-size businesses maintain on-premises or hybrid cloud IT environments by monitoring and managing key areas including security, backup/disaster recovery, and email spam and content filtering. By partnering with leading platform vendors, Progent can bring small businesses the same cutting-edge information technology solutions found in the largest enterprises.
Managed services available from Progent include:
- ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection (EPP) service that utilizes SentinelOne's next generation behavior analysis technology to guard physical and virtual endpoint devices against new malware attacks like ransomware and file-less exploits, which routinely evade traditional signature-matching anti-virus products. ProSight ASM safeguards local and cloud resources and offers a unified platform to automate the complete threat progression including filtering, detection, mitigation, remediation, and forensics. Key features include one-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and real-time system-wide immunization against newly discovered threats. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, dealer, and integrator. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.
- ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Endpoint Protection and Microsoft Exchange Filtering
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection services offer ultra-affordable multi-layer protection for physical and virtual servers, desktops, smartphones, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and advanced heuristics for continuously monitoring and responding to cyber assaults from all vectors. ProSight ESP delivers firewall protection, intrusion alerts, endpoint control, and web filtering via leading-edge technologies incorporated within one agent managed from a unified control. Progent's data protection and virtualization experts can help your business to plan and configure a ProSight ESP deployment that addresses your company's unique needs and that helps you prove compliance with government and industry information security regulations. Progent will help you define and implement policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your network and react to alerts that require immediate attention. Progent's consultants can also assist you to install and test a backup and disaster recovery system such as ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can get back in business rapidly from a destructive security attack like ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified endpoint protection and Exchange email filtering.
- ProSight Data Protection Services: Backup and Recovery Services
Progent has worked with leading backup software providers to produce ProSight Data Protection Services, a portfolio of subscription-based offerings that deliver backup-as-a-service (BaaS). ProSight DPS services automate and track your data backup processes and allow transparent backup and fast restoration of critical files, applications, system images, and virtual machines. ProSight DPS helps your business recover from data loss caused by equipment failures, natural disasters, fire, cyber attacks like ransomware, human mistakes, ill-intentioned insiders, or software bugs. Managed backup services in the ProSight DPS portfolio include ProSight Altaro VM Backup, ProSight 365 Total Backup (formerly Altaro 365 Backup), ProSight ECHO Backup based on Barracuda dedicated hardware, and ProSight MSP360 Cloud and On-prem Backup. Your Progent expert can assist you to determine which of these managed backup services are best suited for your network.
- ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering and Data Leakage Protection
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering service that incorporates the technology of top information security vendors to provide centralized control and comprehensive protection for your inbound and outbound email. The hybrid structure of Progent's Email Guard managed service combines cloud-based filtering with a local gateway appliance to provide complete defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, DHAs, and other email-borne malware. The Cloud Protection Layer acts as a preliminary barricade and blocks most unwanted email from reaching your security perimeter. This decreases your exposure to inbound threats and conserves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises security gateway appliance adds a deeper layer of inspection for incoming email. For outgoing email, the on-premises gateway provides AV and anti-spam protection, DLP, and email encryption. The on-premises security gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email traffic that stays inside your security perimeter. For more details, see ProSight Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.
- ProSight WAN Watch: Network Infrastructure Remote Monitoring and Management
Progent's ProSight WAN Watch is a network infrastructure monitoring and management service that makes it simple and affordable for smaller businesses to map, monitor, optimize and debug their networking appliances like switches, firewalls, and wireless controllers plus servers, printers, client computers and other devices. Incorporating state-of-the-art RMM technology, WAN Watch ensures that infrastructure topology maps are always updated, captures and displays the configuration information of almost all devices connected to your network, tracks performance, and generates notices when issues are discovered. By automating time-consuming management and troubleshooting processes, WAN Watch can knock hours off ordinary tasks like network mapping, reconfiguring your network, locating appliances that require critical software patches, or identifying the cause of performance issues. Learn more details about ProSight WAN Watch infrastructure monitoring and management consulting.
- ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's World-class Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size organization can have its critical servers and apps hosted in a protected Tier III data center on a fast virtual host configured and managed by Progent's IT support experts. Under Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the client owns the data, the OS platforms, and the applications. Because the system is virtualized, it can be moved easily to a different hardware environment without a lengthy and difficult configuration procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied one hosting provider. Learn more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.
- ProSight IT Asset Management: Network Documentation Management
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that makes it easy to capture, maintain, retrieve and safeguard data related to your network infrastructure, procedures, business apps, and services. You can quickly locate passwords or IP addresses and be warned about upcoming expirations of SSLs ,domains or warranties. By cleaning up and organizing your network documentation, you can save as much as half of time wasted looking for vital information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a common repository for holding and collaborating on all documents required for managing your business network like standard operating procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports advanced automation for collecting and associating IT data. Whether you're planning enhancements, performing maintenance, or reacting to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the data you require as soon as you need it. Find out more about ProSight IT Asset Management service.
- Progent Active Defense Against Ransomware: AI-based Ransomware Detection and Remediation
Progent's Active Protection Against Ransomware is an endpoint protection (EPP) service that utilizes next generation behavior-based analysis technology to guard endpoints as well as servers and VMs against modern malware attacks like ransomware and file-less exploits, which routinely escape legacy signature-matching anti-virus products. Progent ASM services safeguard on-premises and cloud resources and provides a single platform to automate the complete malware attack progression including protection, infiltration detection, containment, remediation, and forensics. Top features include single-click rollback with Windows VSS and automatic network-wide immunization against newly discovered threats. Learn more about Progent's ransomware defense and recovery services.
- Progent's Outsourced/Shared Service Center: Support Desk Managed Services
Progent's Support Center services allow your IT staff to outsource Call Center services to Progent or divide responsibilities for support services transparently between your internal support group and Progent's extensive pool of IT service engineers and subject matter experts (SMEs). Progent's Co-managed Service Desk provides a seamless supplement to your internal IT support group. Client access to the Help Desk, provision of technical assistance, problem escalation, ticket creation and updates, performance measurement, and management of the service database are cohesive whether incidents are taken care of by your internal support organization, by Progent's team, or by a combination. Find out more about Progent's outsourced/shared Help Desk services.
- Progent's Patch Management: Patch Management Services
Progent's support services for software and firmware patch management offer organizations of any size a flexible and affordable alternative for evaluating, validating, scheduling, applying, and tracking software and firmware updates to your ever-evolving information network. Besides optimizing the protection and reliability of your computer network, Progent's patch management services permit your in-house IT team to concentrate on line-of-business projects and activities that derive maximum business value from your network. Learn more about Progent's patch management services.
- ProSight Duo Two-Factor Authentication: ID Confirmation, Endpoint Policy Enforcement, and Protected Single Sign-on
Progent's Duo authentication services utilize Cisco's Duo cloud technology to defend against stolen passwords through the use of two-factor authentication (2FA). Duo supports one-tap identity verification with iOS, Google Android, and other out-of-band devices. Using 2FA, when you log into a protected application and give your password you are requested to confirm your identity on a unit that only you possess and that is accessed using a different network channel. A broad range of out-of-band devices can be used as this added means of authentication such as a smartphone or wearable, a hardware/software token, a landline phone, etc. You can designate several validation devices. For details about ProSight Duo two-factor identity authentication services, go to Cisco Duo MFA two-factor authentication (2FA) services.
- ProSight Reporting: In-depth Reporting for Ticketing and Network Monitoring Platforms
ProSight Reporting is an expanding line of real-time management reporting plug-ins designed to integrate with the top ticketing and network monitoring platforms including ConnectWise Manage, ConnectWise Automate, Customer Thermometer, Auvik, and SentinelOne. ProSight Reporting uses Microsoft Graph and features color coding to highlight and contextualize critical issues such as spotty support follow-through or machines with out-of-date AVs. By exposing ticketing or network health problems clearly and in near-real time, ProSight Reporting improves productivity, reduces management hassle, and saves money. For details, visit ProSight Reporting for ticketing and network monitoring platforms.
Download Progent's 10 Benefits of Managed IT Services White Paper
To download a white paper describing why managed services are rapidly takingthe place of the old break/fix model of IT support for small and mid-size companies, click:
10 Benefits of Managed IT Services. (PDF - 710 KB)
ProSight Network Audits
Progent's ProSight Network Audits are a fast and affordable way for small and medium-size businesses to get an unbiased assessment of the health of their IT system. Based on some of the top remote monitoring and management (RMM) tools in the industry, and supervised by Progent's certified group of information technology experts, ProSight Network Audits help you see how closely the deployment of your essential infrastructure devices conform to leading practices. Both the Basic and Advanced options for ProSight Network Audit services are offered at a low, one-time cost and provide instant benefits such as a cleaner Active Directory (AD) system. Both also include a year of state-of-the-art remote network monitoring and management. Advantages can include simpler management, better compliance with government and industry security requirements, higher utilization of network resources, quicker problem resolution, more reliable backup and restore, and increased uptime. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Network Audits IT infrastructure assessment.
The ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report service is an affordable service based on a brief discussion with a Progent backup/recovery expert. The interview is designed to help assess your organization's preparedness to block ransomware or recover quickly after an attack by a ransomware variant like Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, DopplePaymer, LockBit or Egregor. Progent will work with you personally to gather information concerning your current AV defense and backup system, and Progent will then deliver a written Basic Security and Best Practices Report detailing how you can follow industry best practices to deploy an efficient security and backup environment that reduces your vulnerability to ransomware and meets your company's requirements. For additional information, see Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report.
Contact Progent to Find Out More About ProSight LAN Watch Server and Desktop Monitoring and Management Services
For detailed pricing and to find out more about how ProSight LAN Watch remote monitoring and reporting services can save you support costs and increase network uptime for your business, call Progent at 800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.