General Help
SiteMonitor Enterprise will monitor your web sites/host at fixed intervals so that you can be notified when something happens. There are 3 different types of host that you can monitor:
- Website (http)
- Secure Website (https)
- Host (RAW ICMP Ping)
Add a New URL
You can add a website or host by simply clicking on the Add button. The dialog shown above will be displayed; Select or Create a Group,
Enter a friendly name, Enter the URL and a keyword
(or html snippet) from the resultant webpage. This keyword/html snippet is used to check that the response
fetched from the webserver is correct. This is done by ensuring that the keyword/html snippet is present in the webpage that is downloaded.
It is possible that the web server is still alive but the site fails to load properly
for example due to some database error. In such a case SiteMonitor Enterprise will report NoMatch.
Preferences
This tab has options to check for updates on startup and the format of the logs. Be aware that for the logs
it is important that the option "Different Log files for each Site/Host" is ticked and even the "Logs in CSV format"
if you are going to use the Reporting functionality.
This tab contains options on what to do on a failure and if to execute any other programs. Use the execute another
program if you want to execute a particular program when a website fails. Please note that
the friendly name is passed as a parameter to the calling application.
This tab is used to select the particular email provider and the credentials to connect
to the mail server to send email notifications.
This tab contains preferences to set up the SMS functionality. For more information on how to configure
the SMS functionality please click here.
This last tab contains one option. Enable this if you want to automatically start the SiteMonitor Enterprise Configuration (Tray Application)
automatically with windows. On the other hand SiteMonitor Enterprise Service will run as it is set from the Services
Control Manager.
Troubleshooting
For help regarding troubleshooting issues go here.
