IPCheck Server Monitor - User Manual

Accessing Your Account

Acknowledgements

Adding and Editing Groups

Adding and Editing Notifications

Adding and Editing Servers

Adding New Users

Adding Sensors

Additional Features of the ISP Edition

Admin Dependencies

Advanced Options: Including Monitoring Information In Your Intranet or Website

Advanced Sensors

AnsiCompareStr(s1,s2:string):integer

AnsiCompareText(s1,s2:string):integer

AnsiLowerCase(s:string):string

AnsiUpperCase(s:string):string

Appendix

Application Startup&Look&Feel

Automatic Network Discovery

Available Licensing

Available Sensor Types

Bandwidth Issues

Basic Sensors

Beep

Built-in Webserver and SQL Database

Changing the Look&Feel of IPCheck Server Monitor

Changing your login password

Checking a Server's Trace Route

Choosing between Web Interface and Windows GUI

Commercial Editions

Common Settings for all SNMP Sensor Types

CompareStr(s1,s2:string):integer

CompareText(s1,s2:string):integer

Configuring a Remote Probe

Configuring Remote Probes in the Admin Control Panel

Consulting and Custom Software

Control Panel Administrator Tab

Control Panel Email Tab

Control Panel ISP Settings Tab

Control Panel License Tab

Control Panel Messaging Tab

Control Panel Probes Tab

Control Panel Sensors Tab

Control Panel Skinning Tab

Control Panel System Tab

Control Panel Templates Tab

Control Panel Tools Tab

Copy(S; Index, Count: Integer): string

Copyright

CPU Load

Creating a Network Map

Creating a New SNMP Sensor

Creating Reports and Graphs

Cross Reference of Notifications and Latencies

Custom Sensor

Custom Sensors

Date:DateTime

DateTimeToStr(Date: TDateTime): string

DateToStr(Date: TDateTime): string

DayOfWeek(Date: TDateTime): Integer

Dec(a:integer or float)

DecodeDate(Date: DateTime; var Year, Month, Day: integer)

DecodeTime(Time: DateTime; var Hour, Min, Sec, MSec: Word)

Definitions: Notifications, Latencies and Dependencies

Delete(var S: string; Index, Count:Integer)

Deleting Groups

Deleting Notifications

Deleting Schedules

Deleting Sensors

Deleting Servers

Deleting your Account

Dependency Concept

Dependency Example

Disk Space Sensor (Local or Remote)

DLL sensors

DNS Sensor

Duplicating a Server

Editing Account Information

Editing ISP Settings (ISP Edition only)

Editing Schedules

Editing Sensors

Editing the Groups, Servers, and Sensors

Editing User Accounts

Editing User Settings (ISP Edition only)

Editing Web Skins

Editing Web Templates

EncodeDate(Year, Month, Day: Word): DateTime

EncodeTime(Hour, Min, Sec, MSec: Word): DateTime

Event Log Sensor (Local or Remote)

EXE Sensors

Exporting/Importing Groups

Features in Detail

File Sensor (Local or Remote)

Firewall Issues

FloatToStr(a:float):string

Folding/Unfolding

Freeware Edition

FTP Sensor

Fully Integrated Into Paessler's Monitoring Products

General License Terms and Conditions

Group Menu

Group, Server and Sensor Dependencies

Groups

How Notifications and Latencies work together

How the web interface is organized

How the Windows GUI is organized

How to import an MIB File

HTTP Advanced Sensor

HTTP Content Sensor

HTTP Sensor

HTTP Transaction Sensor

Importing MIBs using Paessler MIB Importer and Converter

Inc(a:integer or float)

Information that applies to all sensors

Insert(Source: string; var S: string; Index: Integer)

Installation

Installing a custom SSL key

Installing IPCheck Server Monitor

Installing Paessler SNMP Helper

Installing the software on your server

Installing the Windows GUI

IntToHex(value:integer;digits:integer):string

IntToStr(a:integer):string

Length(a:string):integer

Logging into your account using the Web GUI

LowerCase(s:string):string

Main Toolbar

Managing "My Account"

Managing Dependencies

Managing Groups

Managing Groups, Servers, and Sensors

Managing Notifications, Latencies and Dependencies

Managing Schedules

Managing Sensors

Managing Servers

Memory Usage

Monitoring one IPCheck instance with another instance of IPCheck

Multi Location Monitoring Using Remote Probes

Multi User Features

Multi User Management

Network Load

Notification Dependencies

Notification Message Tags

Notification Options

Now:DateTime

Offering Monitoring Services with the ISP Edition

OID/MIB Library Sensors

Other Script Functions

Overview of Features

Paessler SNMP Helper

Page Refresh

Pausing/Resuming Monitoring for a Group

Pausing/Resuming Monitoring for a Sensor

Pausing/Resuming Monitoring for a Server

Pausing/Resuming Notifications

Pausing/Resuming Schedules

PING Sensor

Planning large Installations of IPCheck Server Monitor

Play Sound Notification

Pop-Up Menus

POP3 Sensor

Popup Window Notification

PORT Sensor

Pos(Substr: string; S: string): Integer

Protocol Sensors

Publishing Current Monitoring Status

Quick View

Random

Recent Messages

Reporting and Graphing

Reporting and Trend Analysis

Reviewing a Sensor's Status

Reviewing IPCheck's System Status

Reviewing Messages/Errors

Reviewing the Complete Activity Data

Round(a:float):integer

Say Message Notification

Script Arithmetic Functions

Script Basics

Script Date/Time Functions

Script Sensor

Script String Functions

Selecting Notifications and Latencies for Groups, Servers and Sensors

Sensor Alert Notification and Messaging

Sensor Menu

Sensor Types in Detail

Sensors

Server and User Account Administration

Server Menu

Servers

Service Sensor (Local or Remote)

Setting up a Remote Probe

Setting Up SMS and Pager Notifications

Simple Solution: Publishing a Group of Servers

Situations that can trigger Notifications

Skinning of Web Interface and Emails

SMTP Sensor

SNMP Advanced Sensor

SNMP Helper Freeware Edition

SNMP Helper License Options

SNMP Helper Pro Edition and its Extensions

SNMP Helper Sensor

SNMP Sensor Types

SNMP Sensors

SNMP Traffic Sensor

SNMP Version 1, 2c and 3

snmpget

Sorting Groups

Sorting Sensors

Sorting Servers

SQL Server Sensors

Starting the Windows GUI

StrToInt(s:string):integer

StrToIntDef(s:string;default:integer):integer

Summary, Tags, and Recent Messages

Support

Supported Script Grammar

System Requirements

System Sensors (Local or Remote)

Tags

Taskbar Tooltip Notification

TCP Script Sensor

Technical Details for EXE and DLL Custom Sensors

Technical Details for Script and TCP Script Custom Sensors

Testing Notifications

TimeToStr(Date: TDateTime): string

Tips&Tricks

Trial Edition

Trim(s:string):string

TrimLeft(s:string):string

TrimRight(s:string):string

Trunc(a:float):integer

Uninstalling IPCheck Server Monitor

UpperCase(s:string) :string

User Menu

Using IPCheck Server Monitor

Using the Control Panel

Using the Web Interface

Using the Windows GUI

Using Tracert to Find Out Hop IP Addresses

Viewing Network Maps

Visit the Paessler Knowledgebase

Web Based Administration

Web Based Administration vs. the Admin Control Panel

Website Traffic/Logfile Analysis Issues

Welcome to IPCheck Server Monitor

What is an "SNMP Community String"?

What it means when the DNS Sensor is down

What it means when the DNS Sensor is up

What it means when the FTP Sensor is down

What it means when the FTP Sensor is up

What it means when the HTTP Advanced Sensor is down

What it means when the HTTP Advanced Sensor is up

What it means when the HTTP sensor is down

What it means when the HTTP sensor is up

What it means when the HTTP Transaction Sensor is down

What it means when the HTTP Transaction Sensor is up

What it means when the PING sensor is down

What it means when the PING sensor is up

What it means when the POP3 Sensor is down

What it means when the POP3 Sensor is up

What it means when the PORT sensor is down

What it means when the PORT sensor is up

What it means when the SMTP Sensor is up

What it means when the SMTP Sensor sensor is down

Why should you monitor your websites and servers?

Windows GUI Options

Working with Email Reports

Working with Groups

Working with Multiple Users

Working with Network Maps

Working with Sensors

Working with Servers

Working with Tags

Your choice of interface - Web browser based, Windows based or PocketPC based

 

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IPCheck Server Monitor makes it easy and affordable to detect network and website failures early. IPCheck Server Monitor helps organizations monitor critical network resources and immediately detect system failures or performance problems to minimize downtimes and avoid economic impact.

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