The service sends notifications as text e-mail. Alerts show the date, time and host name. When the server became available, we received an "OK" message with the server's current response time. We also got weekly text reports showing the actual time and percent of time the URL was in available, warning and critical states. As with Alert Me First, data retention is not available.
1stmonitor. Computer Techniques, (775) 429-8330 (Salem, Ore). www.1stmonitor.com
Bruce Boardman, executive editor of Network Computing, tests and writes about network management and systems. He has 12 years' IT experience managing networks and distributed computing for a financial service provider. Write to him at [email protected].
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