The line is not down because a patch could not wait.
In manufacturing, unplanned downtime is the most expensive item in the room. octoja separates office IT and production-adjacent systems cleanly, keeps to maintenance windows and reports problems before the line notices.
- Sensitive machines get their own rules instead of the standard wave
- Early warning for disks, temperature, UPS units and disk space
- Equipment without an agent stays in the picture too
hardware checks: SMART, RAID, temperature, UPS
network checks including firewall appliances
device types, including agentless
staged instead of all at once
Sound familiar?
Every one of these eventually costs production time. Usually at the worst possible moment.
An industrial PC restarts mid-shift because it ended up in the standard wave.
A system drive fails — the SMART values started deteriorating weeks ago.
There is equipment on the shop floor that is not allowed to run an agent.
There is no clean separation between office IT and manufacturing.
Several plants, one small central team — and every fault means a site visit.
In building 2 an industrial PC controls a test station. It must not restart during the shift and under no circumstances end up in the regular update wave.
In octoja it carries a tag that assigns it to its own ring: maintenance window Sunday 02:00, manual approval only, restart only after confirmation. At the same time it is fully monitored — disk health, temperature, the service status of the control software, free disk space.
When the SMART values on the system drive start to deteriorate, the alert appears four weeks ahead of failure. The replacement happens during planned downtime — not on a Tuesday morning with a batch running.
Availability is the metric that counts
The features that separate planned downtime from expensive downtime.
Separate rules for sensitive systems
One tag is enough: its own ring, its own maintenance window, manual approval, a limited number of restarts. Emergency cycles deliberately skip the sequence.
Hardware speaks up before it fails
SMART, RAID, disk space trends, CPU temperature, fans via SNMP, UPS charge level as well as power supply status via HP iLO and Fujitsu ServerView.
Virtualisation under control
Monitor VMware ESXi, vCenter and Hyper-V — start and stop VMs from the interface and create or roll back snapshots.
Measure network paths
Bandwidth, interfaces, NIC teaming, TCP ports, DNS and NTP — including appliances from OPNsense to FortiGate.
Self-healing instead of a detour via a ticket
A hung service, a disk filling up, an overdue restart: define trigger, condition and action once, and it runs without further input.
Make shadow networks visible
Hardware, software, services with signature status, adapters, shares and local accounts captured continuously — with history and change comparison.
And that is not all
- Wake-on-LAN via a neighbouring device
- Warranty lookup for selected manufacturers
- A wallboard per plant
- Docker, SQL and database monitoring
- Lightning detection as an early warning
- Remote access without a site visit
Which of these are relevant is decided by your plant landscape — not by this list.
Get trial accessThe alert lands where your team already works.
An alert is only worth something once it reaches the right person at the right time — and closes itself again when the problem has gone.
Ticketing systems & PSA
Alerts raise a ticket where your team already works — and close it again on all-clear. Customer records can be imported.
- DocBee
- TANSS
- TOPdesk
- c-entron Service-Board
- HaloPSA
- Autotask
- Jira Service Management
- Freshservice
- Inserve
- Odoo Helpdesk
- Codemeta
Alerting
Separate service hours per channel. Into the ticketing system during the day, by phone call to the on-call engineer at night — alerts outside those hours are held back, not discarded.
- Microsoft Teams
- Signierte Webhooks
- SMS
- Sprachanruf
- App-Push
- Internes Ticket
Documentation & ITAM
The device estate is mirrored into your existing documentation rather than creating a second register.
- Hudu
- IT Glue
- woasi
- Jira Assets
Antivirus, EDR & vulnerabilities
Protection status and vulnerabilities come together in the same view as the rest of the estate — regardless of whose security software the customer runs.
- Microsoft Defender
- Bitdefender GravityZone
- SentinelOne
- CrowdStrike Falcon
- Sophos
- ESET
- G DATA
- Securepoint Antivirus Pro
- ThreatDown (Malwarebytes)
- Lywand Schwachstellenaudit
Backup — monitored across vendors
Firewalls & appliances
Hardware, storage and network without an agent
Server workloads
Would something else suit you better?
Bring us your most difficult machine
The one that must not restart. We will show you in a trial access how it is still monitored, patched and documented.