ServersCheck 7.0: The Right Tool for the Job?

by Scott Lowe | 07-09-07

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Creating a new monitoring rule

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For each device you monitor, you can add a huge variety of rules to determine the asset's health.

You can perform a typical ping check, run a tracert against a device to determine the path that is being used to access the device, and also monitor specific aspects of the device. For example, if you're running a Web server, a ping check tells you that the server is up, and most reasonable monitoring programs will allow you to watch the Web server service to make sure it, too, stays alive. However, how do you know if your page content is actually working?

Simple! Create a dummy page on your web site just for monitoring and then create a ServersCheck rule that looks for specific text to be returned. If the text is returned, your Web server is serving content.

There are a ton of ways to monitor your environment using ServersCheck.