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Why monitoring TCP ports - Server Services such as
FTP
Server is using TCP port 21, SSH server port 22, TELNET server port 23,
SMTP Server
port 25, DNS server port 53, Http server port 80, POP3 server
port 110, IMAP
server port 443, MS SQL server port 1433, Oracle server
port 1521, MYSQL
server port 3306 or self defined port #.
TCP Ports are numerical identifiers in host to host communications.
Monitoring TCP port # is monitoring these services. Technical
Article on
ghacks.net for Port Alert
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Setup the # of consecutive time/down alert you at the RIGHT time
- Monitoring TCP
ports and alert you when timeout / down for a continuous time period. Set up the
# of consecutive timeout / down as ALERT criteria. Alert
notification will be sent when the consecutive timeout / down meet the # . For example you
can setup timeout # as
1,2,3,...10,20 ..etc to alert you when meet the #.
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Sound alert to notify operators whenever the servers get down or timeout
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"Enable to send mail
alerts via 2nd SMTP server" - Mail alerts can also send from
your own or
Yahoo, Hotmail public SMTP server at the same time, this
will let you get mail alerts independent of
our server. Nothing will go to our server, you can download opensource SNIFFER program
wireshark to check and verify your outbound data if you have any security concern
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Alert you once
only - Alert once when meet the #
of consecutive timeout (down) . No keep sending alerts when system keeps down.
Alert once again when back
to normal
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Allow to limit maximum
SMS sending a day - Cap maximum # of SMS
sending a day to avoid SMS alert sending and sending because of
abnormal situation.
if you
set max. # is 10 then the 10th SMS will have 10/10 in the end. Email alert will keep sending
without such limitation.
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I am alive
notification -
Schedule to auto
send you the last minutes log. Let you know status anytime
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Freeware for all
Windows - Free to use anywhere to monitor your
internal or external servers
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We have been providing
the global SMS alert service since 2003
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Global coverage
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Below is the
sample alert text which you will receive
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ftp.google.com
21 Down(11:09:34) Google FTP
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127.0.0.1 3306
ALIVE(00:57:44) MYSQL
Back to Alive
Above
Google FTP
&
MYSQL is the description
which is the alert text you setup . Setup the text for
different server
to let you know which server was down
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