IISGuard
IISGuard is unique software for monitoring, logging and analyzing requests on IIS. It helps you easily detect web sites and scripts that are causing problems with your server.
The IIS web server can easily stop working due to corrupted or poorly written web scripts. There’s no monitoring tool included in the IIS web server itself, which makes it hard, if not impossible, to find and solve problematic sites or scripts.
With IISGuard, this is a problem of the past. Now you can easily see all requests that are made to your IIS web server and find the sites and scripts that are causing problems.
These are some of the problems that IISGuard can help you find in IIS:
- High CPU load or memory consumption.
- Denial of Service attacks.
- Attacks by worms and viruses.
There’s no need to fumble in the dark any more, IISGuard lets you find what you’re looking for in no time.
IISGuard improves the uptime of your server
- Eliminate problematic sites/scripts. The data that IISGuard collects helps you eliminate problematic sites/scripts. IISGuard can even stop and start sites automatically in the IIS.
- Detect malicious clients. IISGuard displays and logs IP addresses used for malicious connection attempts to your IIS, now you’ll be able to easily set up blocking of these clients.
- Improved uptime and performance. Since you know exactly what is happening with your server, you’ll be able to improve both uptime and performance.
Features
- Live Monitor. Watch requests to your IIS web server in real-time. It’s possible to both view currently active request and finished request. Requests that last a long time are marked.
- Logging. IISGuard logs all requests and features an extensive built-in search function.
- Configurability. IISGuard can be configured with various options. You can choose to monitor all file types or set up a filter that monitors only certain file types (e.g. asp, php, exe, dll).
- Web interface. All features of IISGuard are accessible through a web interface.
- Own web server. IISGuard contains a web server of its own, which makes it work independently of the IIS server. This means that when you need IISGuard the most, when the IIS server is experiencing problems, you’ll still be able to access it.
- Performance. IISGuard has proven to perform extremely well in a real server hosting environment, with thousands of heavily loaded sites.
- Ease of use. IISGuard is set-up within minutes. The web interface is both simple and intuitive.
Program Components
- ISAPI filter This component scans all incoming requests to the IIS server. It also streams all data to the next component, IISGuard Service.
- IISGuard Service. This is the main part of IISGuard. It collects the data sent from the ISAPI filter and prepares it for user display.
- Web server. The web server displays a web interface for IISGuard. It works on port 85 and access to the web interface is available through http://domain.com:85
Supported platforms
- IIS 5 / Windows 2000
- IIS 5.1 / Windows XP
- IIS 6 / Windows 2003
Changelog
1.0.416 Release
Release date: 02/02/2006
- Company name is no longer required field in registration form.
1.0.414 Release
Release date: 11/07/2005
- Commercial version. Registration key available.
- You can select which columns you want to display.
- Fixed several smaller bugs from beta version.
1.0.409 Release
Release date: 10/06/2005
- Web interface port can now be changed.
1.0.402 Release
Release date: 09/22/2005
- Fixed installation issue for Windows 2000.
1.0.401 Release
Release date: 09/21/2005
- IISGuard does not get installed propperly on Windows 2000.
