Your company supports about 50 Windows 11 workstations located in satellite offices. Management wants technicians to receive an email any time a workstation's CPU or memory usage stays above 75 percent for more than five minutes, even when no one is actively connected to the device. Which remote-access technology is specifically designed to provide this kind of continuous performance monitoring and automated alerting in addition to remote-control capabilities?
Remote monitoring and management (RMM) platforms include agents that run on endpoints and continuously collect performance counters such as CPU load and memory usage. You can define alert thresholds (for example, CPU > 75 % for 5 minutes) and configure the system to send email, SMS, or push notifications to technicians when those thresholds are exceeded. Tools such as Datto RMM, Atera, and ConnectWise RMM list CPU and memory threshold monitors as standard features. By contrast, RDP, VNC, and SSH are session-based remote-control protocols that do not provide unattended, proactive performance monitoring or built-in alerting.
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