You can configure any monitor to test your server(s) as often as once per minute (the test “Interval”). Additionally, you can configure these parameters: Response Time-out (in seconds) – This is how long the monitor will wait for a particular test to come back positive or negative. Down Time (in seconds) – This is a […]
The recommended way to monitor any type of database, including Microsoft SQL Server, is to create a hidden web-page in IIS, Apache or whatever you’re using, that does a specific database query, and when successfully completed, sends a word (e.g. “OK”) to the web browser. This method is secure because you need not open SQL […]
Yes, the three HTTP monitor types do allow for host headers. A host header allows you to send the appropriate domain name with the IP address being tested. Often this is required if you have multiple websites behind the same IP, or if you have configured your website not to load by IP address only. […]
Yes, absolutely. When creating an HTTP monitor, you can go to the SPECIAL PARAMETERS tab and adjust the HTTP Request value to look for your special page. By default the HTTP Request value is “HEAD /”. If, for example, you wanted to test the page at http://www.mydomain.com/test.php, you would change the value in the HTTP Request […]
Yes, absolutely. This is a very common use for our DNS Failover service. While some customers use it to switch between servers at different datacenters, it works very well to switch between the same server that has two different public IP addresses at the same location or datacenter (e.g. two ISPs, two WAN connections etc.) DNS […]
We support the following list of response codes which can be used individually or together to determine the state of a server. 100 – Continue 101 – Switching Protocols 200 – OK 201 – Created 202 – Accepted 203 – Authoritative Information 204 – No Content 205 – Reset Content 206 – Partial Content 300 […]
MONITORS OVERVIEW The Cloud Networking system supports a very large subset of monitors from something as simple as a ping to something more complex as a DNS record lookup or even an HTTP Post that looks for specific content on the return. Configuring the correct monitor is essential to properly detecting outages for devices. Below […]
In this video we’ll dive deeper into monitors. Monitors are an essential component of our platform because they give you the power to accurately detect when your servers are up or down. This information is then used with Load Balancing or DNS Failover to properly route traffic.
Today we released cloud platform version 22.12.0 which includes a number of bug fixes and feature improvements. Below is a list of the most notable changes you will find in this release. DNS Reporting: We significantly improved the DNS Reporting UI as well as back-end systems that generate statistical data. The UI now generates data […]
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