System Architecture
ALVAO Monitoring consists of 5 components:
- Monitoring Agent (MON Agent, Agent) – a service running on the monitored
computer and logging all activities of all users that are currently logged in.
The records of these activities are periodically sent to the Monitoring
WebService.
- Monitoring Web Service (MON Web Service) – a web-based service which stores
data received from the Agents
- Monitoring Server (MON Server) – a service running on the server. It
processes the files saved by Monitoring WebService and saves all information
into the ALVAO database.
- Monitoring Portal (MON Portal) – a web-based application which displays
the information about the user activity stored in the ALVAO database
- Asset Management Collector (AM Collector, Collector) – a service which does not
participate directly in data processing, but updates the Software Products
Library. ALVAO Monitoring uses this library to match applications with active
windows. Asset Management Collector also sends information about unrecognized
applications.
Communication
The Monitoring Agent is continuously monitoring the activity of all users on
the computer where it is running. This information is compressed and sent to
Monitoring WebService periodically. Before sending data, the Web service will
check if the computer from which the data originated already exists. If it does
not exist, the Web service will create the corresponding computer in the ALVAO
database.
The Web service will save the Agent data to a specified folder. The
Monitoring Server scans this folder regularly to process all files stored there.
Once processed, the activity records become immediately available on the
Monitoring Portal.
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