What is the 8e6 Watchdog, and what does it do?

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What is the 8e6 Watchdog, and what does it do?

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The 8e6 Watchdog is a Windows based application that is designed to allow the administrator to monitor the 8e6 suite of appliance products. Watchdog has the ability to monitor the following 8e6 products:

• 8e6 R3000 2.0 and above (All Models)
• 8e6 Enterprise Reporter 4.0 and above (All Models)
• 8e6 Threat Analysis Reporter

Detection and Alerting on the following failures:

• Ping Graphical User Interface (GUI)
• Connectivity
• URL Blocking
• Disk Usage
• Passed Site Percentage
• Last Log Time

The 8e6 Watchdog is available for immediate download from the “Product Updates” section of the 8e6.com website. The 8e6 Watchdog is free to all customers with a current Internet Filtering and Reporting solution from 8e6 technologies. There are no current plans to build a Macintosh version of this free product.

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