Alerting features of the Monitoring Software

Business has become dependent on the availability of IT systems and nothing is more disturbing than having a customer reporting that a system failed.

With the alerting features available in the ServersCheck network monitoring software, you will be notified automatically when a system does not perform as expected. If the recipient does not respond in the expected time frame, then the alert can be escalated to a different team member to ensure reception of the alert.

From expensive to open source monitoring solutions, they all use network based alerting capabilities such as email, msn... But how do you get alerts if your network is down? As all network protocols fail you won't get any alerts unless you have ServersCheck.

ServersCheck can send alerts via SMS using a GSM modem directly attached to the server so that you get alerts even when your entire network is down!


Email alerting
ServersCheck can notify you per email using either its built-in mail server or any outgoing SMTP server (using basic authentication or not). The content of the email can be customized using predefined variables.

SMS / Text Messages alerting
SMS or cell phone text messaging alerting ensures you to be notified of problems even when your TCP/IP network is down. SMS (text messages) alerts are sent using the included modem over the mobile cell phone network. In the US it works with AT&T or T-Mobile.

 
Team based alerting
This option enables users to define alerting methods (such as SMS, email, MSN,...) based upon specific user profiles by looking at the time of the day and the day of the week. For example you could have in one team emails being sent out during office hours and SMS alerts after office hours and during weekends. 		MSN alerting
Alerts can be sent to your MSN instant messaging application. If you use MSN on a mobile device (PDA, phone), then the alerts will be sent using the MSN protocol to your mobile device.


 
Remote Reboot (hardware)
With these devices, the ServersCheck Monitoring Software can perform a 'cold reboot' of systems like servers, routers, switches,... You can also directly access the remote reboot units through a web browser and power reboot any connected system. Read more 		Signal Tower
The Signal Tower provides visual and audible alerting on the status of the monitoring. It connects via ethernet to the host running the Monitoring Software. Read more