Control Panel provides built-in server monitoring facility. The server monitoring engine lets you monitor wide range of services and ports on any number of remote Windows servers.
When monitoring system detects a problem, it can perform following 3 operations:
Sends alert to configured email address
Restart a Windows service (configurable)
Reboot server
Following services can be monitored:
Disk space: You can monitor and get notified when disk usage exceeds the threshold.
Memory usage: You can monitor and get notified when memory usage exceeds the threshold.
Mail server: SMTP, POP, IMAP services.
IIS web server: IIS web server on port 80 is monitored.
FTP server: FTP server on port 21 is monitored.
DNS server: DNS server on UDP 53 is monitored.
Windows services: Windows service monitored for trouble free running.
TCP Port: You can enter any Port to monitor.
Web Page: You can monitor web pages.
There are certain pre-requisites before you could successfully work with this module.
Windows Servers: The monitored server should be running Windows operating system
Firewall: If there is firewall between Panel Control Server and target server then make sure that you allow RPC port range1024 to 5000.
Administrator Rights: When adding a server to server controller ensure that you provide Administrators group user account and password. All password are stored in strong encryption in Panel database.
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