Top External Monitoring Tools in 2020

What is external monitoring? In a general sense, it means regularly checking on something to find out what is happening. It’s a way to gather information. In a large network, it means observing and recording data from a wide variety of devices and applications. We should clarify that monitoring and management are not the same […]

Environmental Monitoring Just Keeps Getting Better

A data center has many components, but none are more critical than the environmental monitoring system. The technology infrastructure may be state-of-the-art, but if such things as heat or moisture are left unchecked, then all that expensive equipment could fail and cost unnecessary expenses and downtime. Data center managers must have an all-of-the-above strategy that […]

Cloud Availability Platform v18.3.1

Today we officially released a minor update as version 18.3.1 to our cloud platform. The following updates were included in this release: Private IP Ranges: We updated how we handle private IP ranges assigned to customers and VRFs to allow customers to have multiple non-consecutive ranges more easily. WAF Profile Editing: We’ve enhanced the WAF […]

Configuration Builder Tab

Manage and create Network Packs that can be configured with DNS easily and efficiently. The aim of these configurations is to provide you with an easy way to manage your virtual configurations, while providing excellent services such as Acceleration, Load Balancing, Firewall, and Instant Failover. Below you will find a brief description of this functionality, […]

Statistics Tab

Not interested in reading the manual? We cover the essentials in a video at the bottom of this page! The Statistics TAB shows you information on your ALF packs such as; bandwidth, pack utilization, recent alerts, and much more. To the right, there are five drop-down menus to help you specify the time period you’d […]

Search for a Template

If you find yourself with many Alert Templates and are challenged with locating a specific Template to view, you can find it by using the “Search” button. Select the FIELD you’d like to search in the first box, HOW to search in the second box and enter the string you’d like to search FOR in […]

Add a Template

Company:  Choose between your company and any of your sub-companies from the drop-down list. Name:  The name you’re giving to your Alert Template Type:  Choose the type of alert your template is for.  You can only have one template for each alert type per company (or sub-company).  You can choose between: DNS Alerts:  Used for […]

Add Maintenance Window

Company:  Select a company or sub-company from the drop down window that the Maintenance Window will be affect.  This will determine which Alert Lists you see in the following windows. Name*:  (*required)  Choose a name for your Maintenance window and type it in here. Alert List(s)*:  (*required)  Select which Alert Lists this Maintenance Window will affect.  […]

Edit Alert List

Company:  The company or sub-company the list is available to. Name:  The name for your alert list. Confirmation Level:  Use this setting to choose how many of our regional monitoring nodes must agree/see a device down before sending an alert.  1 means any single monitoring node will send an alert, 2 means that at least 2 […]

Device Status Tab

Not interested in reading the manual? We cover the essentials in a video at the bottom of this page! The Server Status tab displays a history of UP and DOWN status events for devices that are part of DNS Failover Pool and/or are used in Networking (e.g. Cloud Load Balancing, Firewall, etc.) Every time a […]