IPCheck Server Monitor

Adding and Editing Notifications

To edit your notifications please access your “My Account” page (See Accessing Your Account).

Under the Notifications heading you will see a list of your notifications.

· To add a new notification, click the Add another notification option.

· To edit a notification select the Edit Link next to the notification that you would like to change.

This will open the Notification Data Window.

The settings are:

· Basic Data

· Name—enter a name for the notification

· Comments—enter a description for the notification

· Status—use the drop-down menu to select the state of the notification. Options include Active and Paused

· Schedule – allows you to select a schedule defined under My Account (See Managing Schedules). From the drop-down menu you can select from the defined schedules.

· Dependency—use the drop-down menu to select a sensor to depend on. If this sensor is down no notifications will be sent (e.g. it does not make sense to send a notification if a server somewhere in the Internet cannot be reached simply because your DSL line is down). (See Managing Dependencies).

· E-Mail

· Note: E-Mail notifications are only available if an SMTP server is set in the Admin Control Panel by the system administrator (seeUsing the Control Panel).

· Notification Status—use the drop-down menu to select the state of the email notification (Active or Paused)

· To Address—Enter the email address where the notification will be sent. To send the email to multiple addresses simply enter all addresses separated by a comma ","

· Message Subject and Message Body—Enter the subject and the message body of the notification. This message can include basic text as well as IPCheck Server Monitor Custom Message Tags. These tags allow you to include detailed environmental information. For more information, see Notification Message Tags.

· Priority—Use the drop-down to select the priority of this message. Options include: Highest, High, Normal, Low, Lowest.

· SMS/Pager

· Note: SMS/Pager notifications are only available if an SMS server is set in the Admin Control Panel by the system administrator (see””).

· Notification Status—use the drop-down menu to select the state of the email notification. Options include Active and Paused

· Country Code—enter the country Code of the mobile phone/pager number (e.g. "1" for USA, "33" for UK, "49" for Germany etc.)

· Number—enter the mobile phone/pager number (without a leading "0")

· Message—Enter the message text of the notification. This message can include basic text as well as IPCheck Server Monitor Custom Message Tags. These tags allow you to include detailed environmental information. For more information, see Notification Message Tags.

· ICQ

· Note: ICQ notifications are only available if an ICQ account is set in the Admin Control Panel by the system administrator (seeUsing the Control Panel).

· Notification Status—use the drop-down to specify the status of the ICQ notification. Options include: Active (ICQ notification is on) and Paused (ICQ notification is turned off).

· ICQ#—Enter the ICQ number to send the message to

· Network Broadcast (NET SEND)

· Use this notification to send a message across your LAN using the Windows Messenger Service

· User—Enter the login name of the user to send the message to or enter the Active Directory domain name to send to all users of the domain, or enter * to send to all users.

· Play Sound

· Sound File—Select a sound that is to be played when this notification is executed. Items shown are all '.wav' files from the 'wav' subdirectory in your IPCheck installation directory. If you place new WAV files into this directory you must restart the IPCheck web server service to show them here.

· Execute Program

· Program File—Enter the full path to the executable file (EXE, CMD, BAT, etc.) on the machine running the IPCheck service, for example c:\adirectory\afile.exe

· Parameters—Enter the text you want to hand over to the executable as command line parameters. This message can include basic text as well as IPCheck Server Monitor Custom Message Tags. These tags allow you to include detailed environmental information. For more information, see the Notification Message Tags Section.

· HTTP Request

· URL—Please enter the URL which should be requested (e.g. http://myloggingserver?event=%server_%name_%status)

· POSTDATA—Only enter data here if you want to perform a POST request (placeholders enabled)

· Event Log

· Event Source: Please enter the name that will be generated as "Source" in the Event Log entry.

· Event Type: Select the type of the Event Log entry: Error, Warning, Information.

· Event Log Message: Enter the message that will be shown in the Event Log entry. You may use IPCheck's message tags (see Notification Message Tags).

· Note: Event Log Entry Notification is disabled by default.

Once you have entered all of the appropriate information click the OK Button to save the notification.

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Adding and Editing Notifications