Network Monitoring

Network monitoring

Do you care for sustainability of your services? Of course you do!

With SMSEagle we give you a tool for monitoring your services or servers. Just define what and when should be monitored. SMSEagle will send you SMS alerts when your services/servers go down. Be informed immediately, keep reaction time low, and let your customers be happy with your services.

Read how it works…

Define what you want to monitor

  • Choose a name for the task
  • Enter a host (IP address or Hostname)
  • Choose ICMP (ping) to monitor a server with ICMP protocol
  • or PORT (TCP/UDP) to monitor your service on a selected port (SMSEagle will check if port is open)
  • or SNMP to monitor objects (OID) via SNMP protocol (supported return types: numeric, string)
  • Increase a default timeout value for busy servers (by default we set it to 30 seconds)

Define a schedule

  • Choose if task should be always enabled…
  • …or disable it in chosen times
    (during a night, when a machine goes through planned restarts, during resource intensive backups, etc.)
  • Enter a phone number or choose a group of users to send your SMS alert to
  • Select when to send SMS alert (when host/service goes down, when host/service goes up after failure)

Control a status of your tasks

  • See a settings’ overview for all of your tasks
  • Check which server/service is currently unavailable
  • See when a specific server/service was last down (last downtime)
  • Check what happened at last downtime (see server/service response)
  • Edit/delete your tasks
  • Disable tasks when needed (eg. when doing a machine upgrades)

Define a SMS alert message

Define your SMS messages when host or service becomes unavailable/comes back to life. Choose field placeholders for your SMS text:

  • {TASKNAME} – puts a taskname inside SMS text
  • {HOST} – hostname or IP address
  • {RESPONSE} – message received (in case of no response from server/service)
  • {TIMESTAMP} – timestamp of an error

Receive SMS alerts

  • Be alerted when your services/servers go down (or go up after failure)
  • Give yourself a chance to react quickly

Make your customers happy with keeping high uptime ratio 

SNMP TRAPS

SNMP trap is a popular mechanism used to manage and monitor devices’ activities across a small or a global network via SNMP. What makes the Trap unique from other messages is that they are triggered instantaneously by an agent, rather than waiting for a status request from the SNMP Manager.

Adding/editing SNMP Traps rule

For each rule a user can define:

  • If a message should be sent “always” or only “for specified IP / when trap contains
  • Set IP, Object ID, SNMP return value and type
  • Recipients of SMS
  • Set a message

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