Automating the website monitoring jobs for the company’s web-site
How much time ago was you looking at the personal website (and also servers and network)? Do you scheduling your website monitoring tasks in some way? Do you think your website is up at the moment? Now I forespeak that you are executing your web-browser, pasting the URL and watching if it’s still present. Looks like everything is perfect… But may it be the page is just saved in the Firefox cache? One more complete reload… Phew, lucky today! But can you be convinced it was available yesterday, two weeks ago, or past month? Most providers promise you a 99.9% uptime guarantee. Well, I bet you would prefer to know that guaranteed.
Imagine that your prospective clients came to your website when it’s unexpectedly not responding. They look at abstruse error message or even blank page. How do you suspect, how much of clients will come away and will never visit again? Well, maybe some of them will perform an attempt later. But anyway, people prefer to make their purchases on the reliable and safe servers. When you are doing some type of online business, you need to be sure, your visitors can navigate your website and get data, stuff, or products they are need. Any unnoticed failure leads to loss of visitors that, in its turn, leads to loss of business.
Somebody can tell that this is life, everything happens, and you can not entirely avoid downtimes. This is half-way true. You cannot totally avoid them, but you can for certain minimize them! The sooner you get information about the problem, the precedently you will be able to take some action and correct it. Notify your network provider, review some network services, etc.
With this aim in view, you may want to try ProtoMon. It is the server monitoring software created to automatically review your network, servers and website in a specified intervals and instantly let you know when any problems happened. It needs only a few moments to download, install, configure, and start using this monitoring software.
You will be able to add the monitors of the different types to check all aspects of your network. First of all you may want to add a ICMP monitor. This enables you to feel certain that the host network computer is available. Website monitor (HTTP monitor) can connect to the website, download some web page and optionally validate its content with the text filters with the support of the logical expressions. By the way, ProtoMon can make use of the proxy server, and connect to the secured sections of the website. Also you may want to monitor your file server using the FTP, FTPS and SFTP monitors. And monitor your mail server (POP3 monitor, SMTP monitor) to be sure that you are able to get email letters from your customers and they do receive your answers.
ProtoMon can start the batch files on your network server using the Telnet or SSH monitors, then receive and check their output. This enables you to monitor almost every parameter of your website including the CPU load, memory usage and so on.
If any problem found, the monitoring program can let you know by showing the pop-up form, playing some sound file, launching any file or URL, or sending a notification email letter to the desired addresses.
This network monitoring software keeps full monitoring statistics of all monitors on your computer. You are able to see it locally, using a handy viewer which includes a well-looking graph which supports panning and zooming and descriptive notes for even better comfort. And you may wish to use the built-in web server to connect to ProtoMon from your network, and review the monitor statuses, failure list and statistics with the favorite web-browser.
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