Adding a Monitor

Control Panel support remote monitoring of Windows based servers.  

To add a server monitor to server navigate to the following path:

Click Add New Monitor button. In Step 1

• Select Server: Select server from the drop-down list.   

• Select Monitor: Specify the type of monitoring role e.g. disk space monitor, CPU usage monitor, FTP server monitor etc.

• Monitor configuration: Once you click the Next button, in the next step, you will be presented with series of options to configure your monitor server. Options include success & failure actions, actions triggered when monitoring server is down or up.  

      Copy Monitors  

To ease monitoring setup, you may copy existing monitors from an already configured server to a target server. This copies all monitors along with their actions to target server. You must be careful since this may copy monitors that may be invalid for your target server. For example, copy monitoring of E: whereas it doesn't exist on target server.  

• Copy:  Select Monitor.

• From server:  Select server.

Then click Copy Monitors button. Click Next button  for Step 2.

    Define success & failure actions for this monitor  

• Check after each:  Select  Minutes, Hours or days.  

    Actions Trigerred on Monitoring Alert (DOWN)  

•  Do Immediately

•  1 min after first error

•  3 min after first error

•  Do every 5 minutes

    Actions Trigerred When Monitor Returns to OK (UP)  

•  Do Immediately

•  1 min after first error

•  3 min after first error

•  Do every 5 minutes

 In front of Actions Trigerred on Monitoring Alert (DOWN/UP) it displays the following options:

• Send Email

• Reboot server

• Start or stop service  

Click Finish button when done.

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