SMON features
- Checking ping availability since v6.3.13
- Checking DNS records availability since v6.3.13
- Checking the availability of TCP and UDP ports
- Checking HTTP statuses
- Checking the BODY of HTTP(S) responses
- Checking the CSL expiration date
- Sending Telegram, Slack, PagerDuty and Email notifications
- Real-time alerting via Roxy-WI
- Checking network connectivity
- Providing information upon response time
- Providing information upon servers uptime and downtime
- Storing the alarm history
- Storing the history of events for each host
- Status pages
- SMON Agents since v7.2.0
Checking port availability
In order to check the port availability SMON sends TCP/UDP requests to the specified port. Its availability status will be displayed in the box after getting a response from the server:
You may also configure notifications and get warning messages in case the specified port is unavailable.Checking HTTP status
SMON sends the HTTP(S) request to the specified address (including the URI and the port if necessary) to check the HTTP status. Choose the "http" or "https" option in the Protocol field to turn on this feature.
The warning message may be sent if the response code is other than 200. Also warning and critical message will be sent if SSL certificate expire soon.
Checking response body
SMON sends a HTTP(S) request to the specified address and then checks it for the words which are in the Body field. If he responds body does not contain the specified words, the warning message may be sent.
Viewing SMON history
You can find events detected by the SMON service in the Monitoring-SMON history section. This page contains the following information:
- the logging level;
- the DNS name or the IP address of the host;
- the port number on which the event occurred;
- a brief description of the event;
- the date and time of the event detection.
You can view the history either for all hosts or for a specified host. Type the host name or IP-address in the Search field in the upper right corner or click on its name in the list to view the event history for a specified host.
Create and view status pages
The status page makes it possible to collect checks of your choice and make them freely available to your colleagues, clients or monitoring team. After you create a page and send a link to it, they will be able to monitor the status of the services.
SMON Agent
Agents are SMON component that can be installed on any of your servers and assigned checks to it. Checks will take place on the agent you select. The results will be sent to the SMON master, where they will be processed. Agents allow you to check the availability of your sites and/or infrastructure from different locations around the world, giving you a broader understanding of availability and response speed from multiple sources
Installation
To install a new Agent, go to the Monitoring -> SMON Agent page. Next, click on the “Add Agent” button. In the window that appears, fill in all the fields and click "Add".
Assign check to the Agent
To assign a check to a specific Agent, go to the SMON Dashboard page, select the required scan and click edit. In the window that appears, select the desired agent from the drop-down list and click the "Edit" button.
Installation
Execute the following command to install SMON:
SMON works only with Roxy-WI 4.4 and newer.
All information concerning RPM packages can be found here.
Updating
Execute the following command to update SMON: