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How long time ago was you looking at your website (and also network services and servers)? Do you scheduling your website monitoring works in some way? Do you think your website is working at this moment? Now I suppose that you are launching your browser, pasting the URL and looking if the website is still usable. Looks like everything is good… Well may it be the web-page was just saved in the Firefox cache? One more complete refresh… Being in luck for now! But are you sure it was responding yesterday, two weeks ago, or last month? Most providers grant you a 99.9% uptime. Well, I would like to know this for sure.

Imagine that your potential customers visit your website and it’s accidentally not responding. They look at strange error string or even white page. How do you think, how much of customers will depart and will never visit again? Well, maybe some of them will try again later. But anyway, people would rather place their purchases on the reliable and secure websites. If you are running some kind of network business, you need to be sure, your customers can browse your server and receive info, stuff, or products they are searching for. Any particular downtime means loss of customers that, in its turn, leads to loss of business.

Somebody can tell that this is life, everything happens, and you can’t totally avoid downtimes. This is partly true. You cannot entirely evade them, but you can of course minimize them! The precedently you get information about any issue, the sooner you will be able to take some action and correct it. Notify your website provider, restart some network services, etc.

For this purpose, you may wish to use ProtoMon. This is the server monitoring software intended to automatically review your website, servers, and network computers in a specified periods and instantly let you know if some problems occurred. It takes just a few minutes to download, install, configure, and start using this network monitoring software.

You will be able to create the monitors of the different kinds to do monitoring tasks for every aspect of your web-server. First of all you may want to use a ICMP monitor. It permits you to be sure that the host network computer is available. Website monitor (HTTP monitor) can connect to the website, download some web page and additionally check the content using the text filters with the support of the boolean expressions. Besides, ProtoMon is able to use the proxy server, and connect to the secured parts of the website. Also you may wish to monitor your servers using the FTP, FTPS and SFTP protocols. And monitor your mail server (POP3 monitor, SMTP monitor) to make certain that you can receive mail letters from the clients and they can receive your answers.

ProtoMon can launch the scripts on your network server through the Telnet or SSH monitors, then receive and parse their output. This allows you to monitor almost every aspect of your server including the CPU load, memory usage and so on.

If any error found, the monitoring tool will let you know by displaying the pop-up window, playing the sound file, starting any script or URL, or sending a notification email letter to the desired addresses.

This network monitoring software stores full monitoring statistics of every monitor on your PC. You will be able to see it when you need, using a statistics viewer which includes a nice-looking graph with support of zooming and panning and detailed explanations for even better usability. Also you may wish to enable the built-in web server to connect to ProtoMon from the network, and view the monitor statuses, failure list and statistics with your favorite web browser.