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Simple monitoring network ports service description

SMON features

SMON stands for Simple MONitoring. You can find the SMON service in the Monitoring-SMON Dashboard section.
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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:

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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.

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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.

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Viewing SMON history

You can find events detected by the SMON service in the Monitoring-SMON history section. This page contains the following information:

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Updating

Execute the following command to update SMON:

You can also update it via the Roxy-WI interface: Go to TOP

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