There are two different ways to monitor a server:
- Service
A connection will be made to the selected Stage domain, on the given port. This way you can check if certain services on your machine are still running. To check your IMAP service for example, enter port 143, or MySQL on port 3306.
- Website
It checks the HTTP status code (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_status_codes for details) for the selected code. If the HTTP status code is in the 4xx range, it means an error occurred and the website is not accessible to the public.
Monitors View
In the main Monitors view, you can ping/view/create/edit all the monitors and their status. The online column indicates, the status. The green on indicates healthiness, instead the red off indicates a problem. To Ping, you can choose one or more, and press the green button ping.
Monitor Edit View
In the Monitor Edit View you can define the type of monitor, selected stage, and if view the uptime and error log.
Configuration
On this view you can define/select the follow:
- The stage where the monitor will apply.
- The type of monitor:
- website
- service
- The port. You can only define this if you select a service. It is not applicable for the website type of monitor.
- Choose whether an email will be sent in case of problem.
- The user to send the email.
Availability
On this tab you can view occurrences of the monitoring execution and the status at the specific time. The red indicator shows problem, and the green healthiness.
Log
This is the log view, where you can see the error message in case of unavailability.