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 […]
Suppose you’ve just launched a new website and you want to make sure that everything keeps working fine. What’s the next step? You could just hope and pray, but there is merit to being more proactive than that. The responsible thing to do is to monitor your website, including all the critical pages, services, and […]
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. […]
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 […]
No one needs to explain to you the virtues of being proactive. Of course, no one can make you (or this writer) do it either. You may know that you should change the timing belt on your car every 60,000 miles or so, but it’s even easier to do nothing about it — until your […]
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 […]
Method: POST URI: /ALF/Server/{ServerId} This method updates an existing server. It accepts the following information: Field Required data *Name The name of your server. E.g. “Server 1” *IPAddress The publicly accessible IP address of your server. E.g. “1.2.3.4” Note: […]
Method: POST URI: /CloudDNS/Failover/Pool/{FailoverPoolId}/entry This method creates a new failover pool entry (that is, a device or server within the pool). It requires that the following information be posted in order to successfully create the domain: Field Sample data […]
Method: POST URI: /ALF/Server This method adds a new server to your company account only (it does not add it to a server group or failover group or otherwise add it to any pack). It accepts the following information: […]
Don’t want to read the manual? Watch the video instead! Failover Pools are lists of one or more IP addresses (IPv4 or IPv6) that can be assigned to A or AAAA records to automate record changes based on certain monitoring criteria you specify. For example, you may have a failover pool that contains the IP […]