DNS Monitors Tab

Not interested in reading the manual? We cover the essentials in a video at the bottom of this page! Customers who subscribe to Cloud DNS Failover (included in the Professional, Premium & Enterprise packages) will have access to the MONITORS tab, as shown in the image below. Monitors do not work on their own, but […]

Resource Record Types

Total Uptime’s Cloud DNS Service supports 27 different DNS resource record types. That includes 26 standard record types and 1 special web-redirect type that we’ve created. Below is a comprehensive list of each record type which you can find in the Cloud DNS management interface. DNS SOA Record This is the “Start of Authority” resource […]

Domains Tab

Not interested in reading the manual? We cover the essentials in a video at the bottom of this page! Customers who subscribe to the Cloud DNS service will see the Cloud DNS main tab and this domains sub-tab. There are four main sections as shown above: 1. Main Toolbar The main toolbar is used to […]

Get All Ports Attached to a Server

Method:              GET URI:                      /ALF/Server/{ServerId}/Port/All?{options} This method will retrieve all of the ports that are currently attached to a server, if anything. The {options} allow you to refine the results retrieved from the API. They must be formatted as a […]

Retrieve All Unassigned IP Addresses

Method:              GET URI:                      /Account/IPAddress/Unused/All?{options} This method will retrieve all of the unused IP Addresses in your account, if any. An IP address ID is required when publishing your Pack. The {options} allow you to refine the results retrieved from […]

Retrieve List of Packs Only

Method:              GET URI:                      /ALF/Pac/List?{options} Similar to “retrieve all packs”, this method only lists the packs and not all of the sub components attached or configured within them. For example, it will provide the Company ID, Company Name, Pack Name […]

Retrieve All Monitors

Method:              GET URI:                      /Monitor/DeviceMonitor/All?{options} This method will retrieve all of the monitors currently configured in the database for your company. The {options} allow you to refine the results retrieved from the API. They must be formatted as a query […]

Root Cause Analysis to Maintain Uptime

“Houston, we have a problem…” For NASA, the disaster aboard Apollo 13 required a systematic approach. And that’s what they got thanks to the Kepner-Tregoe methodology.  The decision matrix developed by Charles H. Kepner and Benjamin B. Tregoe was employed at NASA to help bring the astronauts home. It is a step-by-step approach. And it is […]

How the Availability of Big Data is Transforming the World

All over the world, companies are competing with one another in the race towards digital transformation.   According to a report by Gartner in 2016, one-half of all CEO’s expect their industries to be substantially or unrecognizably transformed by digital transformation. It is a recurrent digital evolutionary process of embedding technologies into nearly everything around us […]

Certification Authority Authorization – CAA Records

Q: Does Total Uptime support these new record types? A: YES! For domains/zones added to our platform on or after August 24, 2020, we natively support CAA records. Simply add the new record type to your zone using the blue button, as shown below. Creating CAA records isn’t very complex, but for those who need […]