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
ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection solution that incorporates SentinelOne's next generation behavior analysis technology to guard physical and virtual endpoints against modern malware attacks such as ransomware and email phishing, which easily escape traditional signature-matching AV tools. ProSight ASM safeguards local and cloud resources and provides a single platform to address the entire threat progression including filtering, infiltration detection, containment, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Top capabilities include one-click rollback using Windows VSS and automatic system-wide immunization against new attacks. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, dealer, and integrator. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware defense.
- ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Physical and Virtual Endpoint Protection and Microsoft Exchange Filtering
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection services deliver economical in-depth protection for physical and virtual servers, workstations, mobile devices, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP utilizes adaptive security and advanced heuristics for round-the-clock monitoring and reacting to security threats from all vectors. ProSight ESP offers firewall protection, intrusion alarms, device management, and web filtering through cutting-edge tools packaged within a single agent managed from a single control. Progent's data protection and virtualization consultants can assist you to design and implement a ProSight ESP deployment that meets your organization's unique needs and that helps you prove compliance with legal and industry data security standards. Progent will help you define and implement policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alerts that require urgent attention. Progent's consultants can also help you to set up and verify a backup and restore system like ProSight Data Protection Services so you can get back in business rapidly from a potentially disastrous cyber attack like ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified physical and virtual endpoint security and Microsoft Exchange filtering.
- ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS): Managed Backup and Disaster Recovery Services
Progent has partnered with leading backup/restore technology companies to produce ProSight Data Protection Services, a family of subscription-based management offerings that deliver backup-as-a-service (BaaS). ProSight DPS services automate and monitor your data backup processes and allow transparent backup and fast recovery of critical files/folders, applications, images, plus Hyper-V and VMware virtual machines. ProSight DPS helps you recover from data loss caused by hardware failures, natural disasters, fire, malware like ransomware, human error, malicious insiders, or application glitches. Managed backup services in the ProSight Data Protection Services product family include ProSight DPS Altaro VM Backup, ProSight 365 Total Backup (formerly Altaro 365 Backup), ProSight ECHO Backup based on Barracuda dedicated storage, and ProSight MSP360 Hybrid Backup. Your Progent expert can assist you to identify which of these managed services are best suited for your IT environment.
- ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering and Data Leakage Protection
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering service that incorporates the technology of leading data security companies to provide web-based control and world-class security for your email traffic. The hybrid structure of Email Guard managed service integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises gateway appliance to offer advanced defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-based threats. The cloud filter acts as a first line of defense and keeps the vast majority of threats from reaching your security perimeter. This decreases your exposure to inbound attacks and saves system bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises gateway device provides a further layer of analysis for inbound email. For outbound email, the local security gateway provides AV and anti-spam filtering, DLP, and email encryption. The local security gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email that stays inside your corporate firewall. For more details, visit ProSight Email Guard spam and content filtering.
- ProSight WAN Watch: Network Infrastructure Remote Monitoring and Management
ProSight WAN Watch is a network infrastructure management service that makes it easy and inexpensive for small and mid-sized businesses to diagram, track, optimize and troubleshoot their networking appliances such as routers and switches, firewalls, and access points as well as servers, printers, endpoints and other devices. Using cutting-edge RMM technology, ProSight WAN Watch ensures that network maps are kept updated, copies and manages the configuration of virtually all devices connected to your network, monitors performance, and sends alerts when potential issues are detected. By automating time-consuming network management processes, ProSight WAN Watch can cut hours off common tasks such as making network diagrams, reconfiguring your network, finding devices that require important updates, or resolving performance issues. Learn more details about ProSight WAN Watch infrastructure management consulting.
- ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small business can have its key servers and apps hosted in a protected fault tolerant data center on a high-performance virtual machine host configured and managed by Progent's network support experts. With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the customer retains ownership of the data, the OS software, and the apps. Since the system is virtualized, it can be moved immediately to a different hosting environment without requiring a lengthy and technically risky reinstallation process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied a single hosting provider. Find out more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.
- ProSight IT Asset Management: Network Documentation Management
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that allows you to create, update, find and protect data about your IT infrastructure, processes, applications, and services. You can instantly locate passwords or serial numbers and be warned automatically about upcoming expirations of SSLs or domains. By cleaning up and managing your IT documentation, you can save up to 50% of time wasted trying to find vital information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a common repository for holding and sharing all documents required for managing your business network like recommended procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports a high level of automation for gathering and relating IT data. Whether you're making improvements, doing maintenance, or reacting to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the knowledge you need the instant you need it. Find out more about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.
- Active Defense Against Ransomware: Machine Learning-based Ransomware Identification and Remediation
Progent's Active Protection Against Ransomware is an endpoint protection managed service that incorporates next generation behavior-based analysis technology to guard endpoints and servers and VMs against new malware assaults such as ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily escape traditional signature-based AV tools. Progent ASM services protect on-premises and cloud-based resources and offers a single platform to address the complete threat lifecycle including filtering, infiltration detection, mitigation, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Top capabilities include one-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and automatic system-wide immunization against new attacks. Learn more about Progent's ransomware protection and cleanup services.
- Progent's Outsourced/Shared Help Desk: Call Center Managed Services
Progent's Support Center services permit your IT group to outsource Call Center services to Progent or split responsibilities for Help Desk services transparently between your internal network support staff and Progent's nationwide pool of certified IT service technicians, engineers and subject matter experts (SMEs). Progent's Shared Help Desk Service provides a smooth extension of your core support group. Client access to the Help Desk, provision of support services, issue escalation, ticket generation and updates, efficiency measurement, and management of the support database are consistent regardless of whether issues are taken care of by your core support organization, by Progent's team, or both. Find out more about Progent's outsourced/shared Help Desk services.
- Patch Management: Patch Management Services
Progent's support services for patch management offer businesses of any size a versatile and cost-effective solution for evaluating, testing, scheduling, implementing, and documenting updates to your ever-evolving information network. In addition to maximizing the security and functionality of your computer network, Progent's patch management services allow your in-house IT staff to focus on line-of-business initiatives and tasks that derive maximum business value from your network. Find out more about Progent's software/firmware update management services.
- ProSight Duo Two-Factor Authentication: ID Confirmation, Endpoint Policy Enforcement, and Protected Single Sign-on (SSO)
Progent's Duo MFA service plans utilize Cisco's Duo cloud technology to defend against password theft by using two-factor authentication (2FA). Duo supports single-tap identity verification with Apple iOS, Android, and other out-of-band devices. Using 2FA, when you sign into a protected online account and give your password you are asked to verify who you are via a device that only you have and that is accessed using a different ("out-of-band") network channel. A wide selection of out-of-band devices can be used as this second form of ID validation including an iPhone or Android or watch, a hardware/software token, a landline telephone, etc. You may designate several verification devices. For more information about Duo identity validation services, go to Duo MFA two-factor authentication services for access security.
- ProSight Reporting: Real-time Reporting for Ticketing and Network Monitoring Platforms
ProSight Reporting is an expanding suite of real-time management reporting utilities designed to integrate with the industry's top ticketing and remote network monitoring platforms such as ConnectWise Manage, ConnectWise Automate, Customer Thermometer, Auvik, and SentinelOne. ProSight Reporting uses Microsoft Graph and utilizes color coding to surface and contextualize key issues such as inconsistent support follow-through or machines with missing patches. By exposing ticketing or network health problems clearly and in near-real time, ProSight Reporting enhances network value, lowers management overhead, and saves money. For more information, see ProSight Reporting for ticketing and network monitoring applications.
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 traditional break/fix model of network 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 offer a quick and low-cost alternative for small and mid-size businesses to get an objective evaluation of the health of their IT system. Powered by a selection of the top remote monitoring and management (RMM) tools available, and supervised by Progent's world-class team of IT professionals, ProSight Network Audits show you how well the deployment of your core infrastructure assets conform to industry best practices. The Basic and Advanced options for ProSight Network Audit services are available at a budget-friendly, one-time cost and deliver instant ROI like a more manageable Active Directory system. Both versions also come with one year of advanced remote network monitoring and management (RMM). Advantages can include lower-cost management, improved compliance with government and industry security standards, more efficient utilization of network assets, faster problem resolution, more dependable backup and restore, and increased uptime. See more information about ProSight Network Audits IT infrastructure review.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report
The ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report is a low-cost service based on a brief phone discussion with a Progent information assurance consultant. The interview is designed to assess your company's preparedness either to block ransomware or recover quickly following an assault by a ransomware strain like Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Mailto (aka Netwalker), DopplePaymer, Conti or Egregor. Progent will consult with you directly to collect information concerning your current security profile and backup/recovery procedures, and Progent will then deliver a custom Basic Security and Best Practices Report document describing how you can apply best practices to create an efficient AV and backup system that minimizes your vulnerability to ransomware and aligns with your company's needs. For details, see Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report Service.
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.