Control Panel support remote monitoring of Windows based servers. To add a new monitor navigate to the following path:
Click Add New Monitor button. Select the server where you want to setup monitoring from Select server list and follow these instructions:
Setting up Monitoring parameters:
Select Web Page Monitor from Select monitor list.
Enter following information:
Page URL to look into: Enter here the URL which needs to be monitored.
Success Text: Enter here the text which indicates the site is working. For example, if you enter text "content management" the monitor will try to find this text on the monitored URL. If it is not found the page will be considered down and alert will raise.
Failure Text: Enter here the text which indicates the site is down. For example, if you enter text "Page not found" the monitor will try to find this text on the monitored URL. If it is found the page will be considered down and alert will raise.
Max response time (ms): Enter here the maximum time in milliseconds to wait for response. Default is 300000 ms.
Click on Next button.
Setting up Monitoring actions:
Enter the interval at which Control Panel should check monitored item in Check after each box.
Actions Triggered on Monitoring Alert (DOWN): Select here the actions you want the system to take when an alert is raised. Select from following options:
Send Email: When selected, this option will send email alerts on the configured email address.
Reboot server: This option will reboot the server when alert is raised.
Start or stop service: Selecting this option gives list of Windows services available on the target machine. You can select a service from the list to restart whenever the alert is raised.
Select desired option and using the right-arrow button move it to the interval list on left side.
Actions Triggered on Monitoring Alert (DOWN): Select here the actions you want the system to take when an alert is removed (when monitored item is back to OK state). Same options are available here as with Actions Triggered on Monitoring Alert (DOWN) option.
Click on Finish button when you are done.
Note: Newly create monitor takes at least 5 minutes to show up in the Server Monitors list.
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