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Device Monitoring

Real-time device health, CPU/memory/disk alerts, SSL certificate tracking, patch status overview, and interactive network topology maps.

22 articles
1

How a Device Problem Becomes a Fix

How Plenix watches computers and servers, spots trouble, and turns it into work before anyone phones to complain.

2

How Device Monitoring Works

Device registration, health metrics, alert thresholds, SSL tracking, and how monitoring connects to ticketing, RMM, and automation.

3

How the Cross-Platform Agent Works (Windows, macOS & Linux)

Understand the single Plenix agent that runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux β€” what it collects, how it stays connected, and what you can do with it remotely.

4

Add a Device

Register a new device for network or performance monitoring.

5

Configure Alert Thresholds

Set CPU, memory, and disk thresholds that trigger alerts.

6

Read the Network Map

Every site's network drawn automatically from your agents, scanners, printers and switches β€” with each device's health, patching, software, security and automations one click away.

7

Checking SSL Certificate Status

How Plenix probes and grades your clients’ certificates from A+ to F, discovers them automatically, and warns you before one expires or fails.

8

View Patch Status

Check which devices have outstanding OS or software patches.

9

How to Use Software Inventory & Automated Patch Management

See every application installed across your fleet, spot vulnerable versions, and roll out patches automatically with patch policies.

10

Threat Intelligence: Manage and Check Indicators

Keep a reviewed feed of indicators of compromise, pull them out of a threat report, check any value against the feed, and match SIEM events automatically.

11

How to Manage IP Addresses (IPAM)

Plan, document and track every subnet and IP address. Plenix fills IPAM in automatically from your network, flags conflicts and full subnets, and finds the next free address for you.

12

Network Discovery and Scanner Agents

How Plenix finds every device on a network β€” agents, scanner agents, ARP and port sweeps, SNMP, LLDP and switch tables β€” and how to control when it runs.

13

AI Network Review

Get a plain-English risk review of any network with a score and a prioritised to-do list, and let AI identify devices the rules couldn't.

14

Backup Monitoring

Track backup job status so a silent failure never goes unnoticed.

15

Dark Web Monitoring

How Plenix auto-discovers monitors from your CRM, sweeps breach data nightly, scores findings by risk, and how to triage what it turns up.

16

EDR / Antivirus Management

Agent health, detections and quarantine status across your fleet.

17

Mobile Device Management

Enrol and manage mobile devices alongside the rest of your estate.

18

SIEM / SOC Integration

Aggregate security events and logs for correlation and investigation.

19

Monitoring Templates

Reusable check, threshold and policy sets applied across devices.

20

Cloud Cost Management

Track entered cloud spend and budgets using the accounting currency and saved exchange rates.

21

How Monitoring Reports Work

Canned reports, a scoped custom report builder, and scheduled email delivery for Monitoring data.

22

Uptime monitors

Check websites, APIs and servers on a schedule, get alerted and open tickets when they go down, and read uptime, response time and outage history.

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