The agents run autonomous on the monitored systems which mean that there is no need of a permanent connection between the SimMon agent and the GUI or other components of the SimMon architecture. Actions can be taken if defined in a monitoring task. This can range from communicating problems via mail or even by taking administrative actions like restarting a service or process. Wizard dialogs are included to ease up the configuration of your SimMon environment. Almost the complete configuration of the SimMon takes place in XML so you can easily copy,alter configurations directly in the configuration files. The free version of SimMon is not a demo version, but a fully functional version. The Pro version delivers more functionalities to the subscribed users and uses the same technology as the freeware version.