How HoundDog Works
Start Monitoring & Managing Your Clients in Just 10 Minutes
“The time between first trialing the software, adding it to our product portfolio and earning revenues from our clients has never been so short!”
Edmund Johanns, Johanns Datentechnik GbR, GERMANY.
With HoundDog Software you can start monitoring and managing your clients in just 10 minutes. The system is easy to use, quick to install and there’s no training required. For just pennies per day you can enjoy a cancel anytime, risk-free contract with free support and free upgrades. Easy!
Get HoundDog Working for You in 3 Easy Steps:
1. Drop an Agent on Your Client's Server
Download a HoundDog Agent from your online Dashboard and simply drop it on your client’s server, remotely if you wish.
The Agent is a very small piece of code that:
- Runs as a Windows Service
- Barely registers on the Task Manager in terms of memory usage and processor load
- Doesn’t require .Net or other pre-requisites
- Never interferes with any other program or makes changes to the registry
- Agent settings can be copied between servers, to deploy agents to multiple servers easily
- Won't degrade your systems performance
- Only uses small amounts of bandwidth - it's upload is just 2k in size (encrypted https)
- And never interferes with network performance - it uses outbound-only https so no firewall changes are necessary
- Agent data passes through most firewall configurations and contains no user identifiable information
2. Configure the Step-by-Step Wizard in Just 10 Minutes
Run through the Configuration Wizard, and set your own thresholds. Monitoring begins immediately. You can adjust the settings from either The Agent or the Dashboard.
At the completion of each monitoring cycle, The Agent uploads a small packet of information (typically less than 1k in size) via outbound https to HoundDog’s central servers. No in-bound communication occurs so there’s no need to open up your firewall.
3. Login to Your Dashboard and View Your Clients' Systems
During your trial you can login at www.HoundDogIsEasy.com. As a HoundDog customer you can set it up so that http://dashboard.your-name.com takes you straight to your login. When combined with your Own-Brand System, it gives you a professional look and builds confidence with clients.