LAST EDITED ON Oct-08-04 AT 09:18 PM (PST)
 
By Kirill

Info and support for Moniterz.

Moniterz ReadMe

Moniterz is a web site monitoring tool. Moniterz test your web sites to insure
that your web sites are available 24/7. As soon as an error is detected,
Moniterz notifies your by a loud siren sound. Additionally Moniterz reports
the current status by an icon in the system tray. The green icon means that all
your sites works properly, the red icon means that some of your sites are
unreachable.

To add site, use the "Add Page" form. Enter the URL in the
"http://your-domain.com/path/to/important/page.html"; format and click "Add".
The page will appear in the "List of Pages" list. You will see the current
status of the page and the last time when the status was changed.

In the LTD version, you may add up to 2 pages. In the STD and PRO versions,
you may add unlimited number of pages.

Click the link "Delete" to delete the page from the list of monitored pages.
Click the link "Details" to see more details about the page.

In the details page, you will see some additional information including average
response time for last hour, day, week and month, and the history of status
changes. Here you may also change the URL of the page.

Take a look to the left panel of Moniterz. You may adjust many parameters using
the "Configuration" form. You may increase or decrease monitoring frequency
(parameter "Check period", frequency ranges from 1 minute to 30 minutes). You
may turn the siren sound off if you found it annoying (parameter "Warning
Sound", values: "On", "Off"). Moniterz provides additional false alarm
protection. If you set the number of retries (possible values: None, 1-5
retries) to any value except None, it will check your site the specified number
of times before reporting an error. Set the parameters and click "Update" to
apply them.

Moniterz PRO provides some advanced features.

When you add a page, you may specify the list of required words and phrases
that should appear on the page. Additionally you may specify the list of
inadmissible words and phrases that should not appear on the page. It may be
useful in many cases. For example if your site a high-powered PHP portal and
sometimes the script fails to connect to the MySQL database, you may add the
phrase "mysql_connect(): Can't connect to MySQL server" to the list of
inadmissible phrases. After that you will be able to detect subtle PHP and
MySQL errors which are not detected by traditional monitoring services.

Also Moniterz PRO allows you to moniters file (FTP) and mail (SMTP and POP3)
services. Use the "Add Domain" form to begin monitoring services. Enter the
domain of your server in the "your-domain.com" format, select the services to
monitor and click "Add". The server will appear in the "List of Domains" list.
You will see the the currest status of the selected services and the time
when the status was changed. Additional information, such as "Response Time"
and "Status History" is available by the "Details" link.

Kirill

For watching my own servers, I like setting Moniterz to:

-Check every two minutes
-1 Retry

This gets rid of almost all "false alarms", but still keeps a close eye on my servers. Also, every two minutes is often enough, with one "re try", it will be every 4 minutes.

If you have your own server, this is often enough. If you offer hosting, you'll want to check every minute, but eveyr two minutes is only have the server load.

If you have a host, not your own server, I'd check every 5-15 minutes or so, with 1 retry.

But, it's up to you...Play around with the controls a little.

And remember, if you're relying on hearing the audio alarm, you need to have your sound installed, working with the volume on.

I have had one of my sites apparently dropped from the search engines.
It is no longer listed, although Yahoo crawls a few pages every day.

Kurt suggested I use Moniterz to see if it was down part of the time and so was dropped from yahoo and msn.

I used Moniterz and the siren comes on every minute or so. I can go to the site in my browser- the site is up and running.

This went on at the same time I was tracking another site hosted on the same server, and it was just fine the whole 22 minutes I watched both sites. After about 10 minutes the first url was said to be up.

Could you tell me what is going on? How can one be said to be up with Moniterz and the other not on same server?

Thanks.

Hi Jeannie,

>I used Moniterz and the siren comes on every minute or so. I
>can go to the site in my browser- the site is up and
>running.
>
>This went on at the same time I was tracking another site
>hosted on the same server, and it was just fine the whole 22
>minutes I watched both sites. After about 10 minutes the
>first url was said to be up.

Could you tell me what error message you get? The error message is
below the "Status: DOWN" line.

What URL have you checked?

Kirill

"Could you tell me what error message you get? The error message is
below the "Status: DOWN" line.

What URL have you checked?"

Sorry, I cannot tell you specifically. That info is gone now.

the site is http://www.leisurelivingtravels.com

Thanks for your help.

Hi Jeannie,

>
>"Could you tell me what error message you get? The error
>message is
>below the "Status: DOWN" line.
>
>What URL have you checked?"
>
>Sorry, I cannot tell you specifically. That info is gone
>now.

Hmm... Then I cannot tell you what it was...

I can only suggest you to increase the number of retries.

Please let me know if this problem will happen again.

Kirill

okay, I will let you know if I run into it again. thanks

I just odered Moniterz Pro, however, not sure how to use it.

I unzip and copy moniterz.mod to my current tuelz folder and replace the old moniterz.mod, is that correct?

However, it doesn't work. Please help.

Bob

>However, it doesn't work. Please help.
>

Bob,

Please contact Kirill directly via email.

Also, when you get ahold of him, please try to be a little more descriptive than "it doesn't work". What did you do and then what did it do???

It didn't start?

Didn't connect?

Ok,
Thanks Kurt!

Hi Bob,

>I unzip and copy moniterz.mod to my current tuelz folder and
>replace the old moniterz.mod, is that correct?
>
>However, it doesn't work. Please help.

Have you restarted Tuelz?

Kirill

I delete all my old tuelz and install a new one.

It works well now.

Thanks very much.
Rob

I just downloaded Monitorz Pro and it slipped right in with no problem.

What I did was move the MonitorzLTD out of the Tuelz folder and pasted the Pro file in. Then, as with all the other mods, fired up the Tuelbox and Pro was active, slicker'n squirt!

Kirill, thanks for letting me know ahead of time that Pro was an immediate download after payment. I appreciate the "heads up."

John

Hi,

I have Moniterz Pro and the email alert doesn't seem to work for me. Do I need to configure my system somehow to allow Moniterz to send an email when a site goes down?

Cheers,

Rich

>I have Moniterz Pro and the email alert doesn't seem to work
>for me. Do I need to configure my system somehow to allow
>Moniterz to send an email when a site goes down?

You need to correctly specify the "Use SMTP server" parameter.
It is an IP address or a host name of a SMTP server you use to send mail.
You may find it in your e-mail program settings.
Usually it looks like mail.your-isp.com...

Kirill