Deploying the website monitoring activities for your company web site
When last time was you verifying the personal website (and also network and servers)? Do you scheduling your website monitoring works in some mater? Do you think your website is up at the moment? Now I forespeak that you are executing your browser, pasting the URL and looking if it is still usable. Looks like the things are perfect… But may it be the page is just stored in the browser cache? One more full reload… Being in luck this time! But are you sure it was responding yesterday, two weeks ago, or last month? Every hosting provider will grant you a 99.9% uptime. Well, I bet you would prefer to know this without fail.
Imagine that your prospective customers visit your website when it’s unexpectedly not responding. They see strange error message or even blank page. How do you think, how much of them will go away and will never browse again? Well, maybe some of them will try again later. But anyway, people prefer to make their purchases on the steady and safe servers. If you are running any kind of network business, you need to be sure, your visitors can navigate your server and receive info, services, and products they are need. Any unexpected error means loss of customers that, in its turn, means loss of business.
One may tell that it is life, downtimes happens, and you can’t completely avoid them. This is half-way correct. You cannot completely avoid them, but you can for certain minimize them! The earlier you get information about the problem, the sooner you will be able to take the action to fix it. Ask your website provider, restart some network services, etc.
With this aim in view, you may wish to use ProtoMon. This is the server monitoring software intended to automatically navigate your servers, website, and network from time to time and instantly advise you if any problems occurred. It takes only a few moments to download, install, configure, and start using this network monitoring software.
You are able to create the checks of the different kinds to check every aspect of your server. As a first step you can use a ping monitor. This allows you to be sure that the host network computer is working. Website monitor (HTTP monitor) can connect to the website, download any web page and additionally check its content with the powerful filters with the support of the boolean expressions. By the way, ProtoMon is able to use the proxy server, and connect to the secured zones of the website. Also you may want to check your network using the FTP, FTPS and SFTP protocols. And check your mail server (POP3 monitor, SMTP monitor) to make certain that you are able to receive mail messages from the clients and they do get messages from you.
ProtoMon can start the batch files on your network server through the Telnet or SSH monitors, then take and analyze their output. This allows you to monitor almost each parameter of your server including the CPU load, memory usage and so on.
If any error detected, the monitoring tool can contact you by displaying the pop-up form, playing the sound file, starting any script or URL, or sending a notification email letter to the desired recipients.
This network monitoring software stores full monitoring statistics of each monitor on your computer. You will be able to look at it when you need, using a handy viewer what includes a well-looking chart with support of panning and zooming and descriptive notes for even better comfort. Plus you may wish to enable the built-in web server to connect to ProtoMon from the network, and view the monitoring statuses, failure list and statistics using your favorite web-browser.
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