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Additional Monitoring

The following monitoring options are available in customized and non-standard hosting solutions at Irides.

• Port– Scans a client specified port to see if it is open or closed to traffic. This service is available to clients whose applications use non-standard ports.
• Windows Service– Monitors specified services running on a Windows 2003 platform. This monitor can be set up in one of two ways:
  • Up/Down - the monitor detects if the service is down and returns an alert.
  • Number of Instances - the monitor can count the number of instances of services running and alert if the count is low or high. For example, a customer expects to see between 12 and 15 services running, there are 11, an alert is sent.
• UNIX Process– Monitors specified processes or daemons running on a UNIX server. This monitor can be set up in one of two ways:
  • Up/Down - the monitor detects if the process is down and returns an alert.
  • Number of Instances - the monitor can count the number of instances of processes running and alert if the count is low or high. For example, a customer expects to see between 12 and 15 processes running, there are 11, an alert is sent.
• URL– Verifies availability and access time for a URL. This is in addition to the Primary URL monitor offered as part of the standard web server support package. The URL Monitor ensures that your web pages are always available in an acceptable time frame.
• Log File– Looks for a string of characters in a specified log file and sends an alert when the monitor finds a match.
• Windows Event Log– Watches one of the Windows Event Logs (System, Application, or Security) and triggers alerts when entries are added.
• Content Match– Verifies the availability, access time, and content of a specified URL. The content match monitor matches a customer provided string of characters against the web site. This assures the reliability of the content of your web site as well as the server.
• Transaction– Verifies the overall connectivity of your website. The transaction monitor simulates an end-user by following a predefined series of steps through your website.
• File Monitoring – Check whether a particular file exists and if it has been modified since the last file check occurred. Plain-text files may also be scanned for predefined character strings. Alerts are sent directly to the client when an error condition exists.