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IPSentry Alerting & Notification Features
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IPSentry is loaded with many features designed for monitoring and alerting of all aspects of your
network infrastructure, data, system performance, and environment.
While we can describe the feature set and provide general scenarios for the
feature usage, you
will ultimately define how that feature is utilized to provide you with the
desired results.
Alert
and Notification - Summary
IPSentry provides many customizable
alerting and notification options to keep you informed of problems
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Cell Phone Notification via SMS (details)
Send SMS message to one or many cell phones when problems are found.
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PDA and Smart Phone Notification via SMS or SMTP (details)
Send Email or SMS messages to mobile devices.
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Email Notifications via SMTP/MAPI (details)
Send email notification when problems are detected or
corrected.
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Audible Alerting (details)
Sound off with PC Speaker beeps or .wav files.
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Launch External Application, Utility or Script (details)
Perform automated recovery or custom alerting through scripts
and commands.
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Remote Computer Restart/Shutdown (details)
Trigger a remote computer shutdown or restart when problems occur
using the Launch Alert.
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Syslog Notification (details)
Notify your Syslog server of problems and recoveries.
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X10 Remote Power Control (details)
Power up, down, or cycle external devices (Lights, Sirens, Network
Devices)
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IPSentry Service State Controller (details)
Perform Start, Restart, or Stop on specific services based on
monitored device status.
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Send SNMP Trap Alert (details)
Incorporate IPSentry with current management infrastructure and send
SNMP traps to your management system.
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HTTP/s Enhanced Web Alerting (details)
Send data to a web server using GET or POST with form fields or URL
values.
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Scripted TCP/IP Custom Network Alerting
(details)
Perform custom scripting of network devices over TCP.
Automated router reset, configuration and more.
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DASH Remote Workstation Client
(details)
Deploy on remote desktops to keep a constant eye on all of your
IPSentry hosts.
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Don't see the alert, notification or action that you need?
See our Add-In SDK for creating your own add-ins and deploy
unlimited functionality. (details) |
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Alert
and Notification - Details |
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Cell Phone Notification via SMS
With text messaging availability on Cells being carried by the vast
majority in the IT field, this is the most stable alert mechanism in
use during a catastrophic systems failure that we offer.
Through the use of a straight POTS line connected to an inexpensive
modem and everything powered through a UPS - you can lose your
power, lose your generators, fry your network, but that standard'
POTS line tends to remain active long enough to get out the critical
notification.
IPSentry uses the standards based TAP protocol for modem
transmission by default. However, due to the diversity of messaging
terminal requirements, we have provided various customizable scripts
to match many different services and devices, including the use of
devices such as USB attached GSM device for sending SMS direct
over-the-air.
BTW> Yes - we do support Numeric only beepers...
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PDA and Smart Phone Notification via SMS or SMTP
Similar to standard Cell phone notification via SMS, you can
incorporate both SMTP and SMS/TAP notifications into the pager
configuration providing the best of both worlds.
If the email can't get through, the SMS dialup should be the
fallback.
Again within the scope of paging - IPSentry uses the standards based
TAP protocol for modem transmission by default. However, due to the
diversity of messaging terminal requirements, we have provided
various customizable scripts to match many different services and
devices, including the use of devices such as USB attached GSM
device for sending SMS direct over-the-air.
BTW> Yes - we do support Numeric only beepers...
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Email Notifications via SMTP/MAPI
IPSentry gives you the ability to send notifications via email using
SMTP or MAPI (Exchange/Outlook) to one or multiple recipients,
either directly through MX lookup, through a configured MAPI
profile, or to a specified SMTP relay.
With the ability to specify multiple SMTP relay hosts, IPSentry will
attempt delivery of the message to each server specified should the
other server fail.
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Audible Alerting
IPSentry can trigger a notification by either a .wav file to be
played or the PC speaker to be beeped for the duration you specify
in the alert configuration.
We know by first hand experience that many times, this is the first
alert we receive when in close proximity to the system on which
IPSentry is running. It might take a few seconds for our cell
to receive the SMS message, but we often times respond to the
beeping before the message alert on the cell sounds off.
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Launch External Application, Utility or Script
With IPSentry, you can automate command line tasks required to
correct some issues, send network broadcasts, kill processes, start
reset scripts, and more.
For example, there may be a situation that only a service restart or
a computer restart can correct. It's a waste of time to drive in,
power down, power up, and go home. Instead, you can have IPSentry
launch an external NET START or NET STOP command, or launch our
supplied IShutDn which can initiate a shutdown (see the next
feature) and restart of a remote system.
If the alerts continue, then it might be time to come in, in
many cases, you will receive a "Recovery" alert letting you know
that all systems are 'GO'.
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Included IShutDn - Remote Computer Restart/Shutdown
There are times when only a restart of the remote system will
correct a known problem and IPSentry provides the answer.
Within the IPSentry distribution is our IShutDn command line utility
to Shutdown or Restart a remote system.
Use this in conjunction with the Launch External Application
alerting to initiate the restart.
Another situation where the Shutdown aspect can save you a great
many head-aches is when monitoring environmental conditions.
It is far better to shutdown the systems when temperatures are too
high than risk hardware failure. Simply configure the Launch
application alert to trigger the IShutDn when the temperature
readings are too high and associate the alert with the IT
Environmental Monitoring functionality.
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Syslog Notification
Allows you to send a Syslog message to a Syslog server containing
textual information. You can also configure the message type
(Facility / Priority) for proper action by other utilities that
monitor the Syslog.
There just isn't much to be said about a Syslog alert - very simple,
very straight forward. If you want notifications sent to a
Syslog server, IPSentry can do it.
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X10 Remote Power Control
X10 Remote Power Command allows IPSentry to communicate with X10's
AC power modules in order to control external power to specified
modules. This features comes in handy if you want to drive alert
lights, sirens, or even power down or power cycle network devices or
peripherals base on the result of a monitored For more
information on the X10 control units, see
http://www.x10.com
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IPSentry Service State Controller
The IPSentry Service State Control add-in is an alerting add-in
component which allows you to control services on local and remote
computers. This add-in component is used to Start, Stop, and Restart
services as a pro-active recovery measure based on the result of a
monitored entry.
For example, you can configure IPSentry to monitor a service such as
W3SVC if you are so inclined. If this service is detected in a state
other than Running when monitoring using the basic NT Service
Monitoring functionality of IPSentry, you can configure the Service
State Controller as an alert action and attempt to Start the service
automatically thereby avoiding human interaction.
This add-in can be used in conjunction with any monitoring entry -
not just service monitoring. For example, you may have a custom
network application that is tested by a simple TCP connection. If
the connection cannot be established, you may need to restart
various services on the remote system even if the service show that
they are running. This add-in can be used in such a case by
specifying either Restart options on a set of system services.
Also important is the fact that you can configure a set of services
to be started in a specific order thus allowing you to start or
restart dependency services as may be required.
The Service State controller add-in is designed to be used as an
alerting mechanism for starting, stopping, or restarting windows
system services on local an remote systems.
There are many failure scenarios that require nothing more than a
restart of a system service to correct the issue and this add-in
fits that bill. We actually use it extensively in our production
environment to make sure that our backup services are all running. A
common and well known problem with some backup systems is that when
the service fails - you don't get a backup and you don't find out
about it until the backup software notifies you of some ambiguous
error caused the backup to fail. We use the IPSentry service monitor
to check the service state and if they don't report as running, we
use this add-in to stop them in order and start them in order for a
clean service startup.
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Send SNMP Trap Alert
Within the SNMP Monitoring and Trap Alert add-in is the SNMP trap
alerting functionality for use in the IPSentry Add-In Alert area.
The IPSentry base application includes an alerting mechanism for
add-in components which extends the base functionality considerably.
Use of this add-in allows IPSentry to send SNMP traps to a trap host
as part of the notification sequence regarding the state of the
entry being monitoring along with a descriptive on the reason for
the alert allowing you to incorporate monitoring results into your
existing SNMP management systems.
The MIB definition for the IPSentry taps is located in the SNMP
Add-In folder with the IPSentry Distribution and is also defined
here.
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HTTP/s Enhanced Web Alerting
Within the HTTP/s Enhanced Web Monitoring Add-In is contained the
ability to perform the same functions as an alerting and
notification method.
By utilizing this add-in, IPSentry can actually post information to
a web site to trigger a remote action or script by sending a simple
GET request to a web site, or to log data to your web site by
posting keyword based values over the web.
This add-in can be used to post alert notification fields to cell/SMS
provider's "Send Message" sites as yet another option for alert
notifications. Check with your service provider for details on
sending messages via web interface without requiring CAPTCHA
information design to ensure manual input.
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IPSentry Scripted TCP/IP Custom Network Alerting Action
This component can be used as both a monitoring entry as well as an
alerting action which means that TCP accessible devices which accept
telnet or raw TCP connections to perform certain actions can be
access and scripted as an alerting action.
The IPSentry Scripted TCP/IP Network Monitoring enhances the basic
TCP Network monitoring functionality by providing a scripted
approach to send and receive requirements over an established TCP/IP
connection.
An example of this type of use might be communicating via telnet
session to a local device such as a router to perform a soft reset
via system command after login by simply defining the host to which
you will connect, port number, and then the scripted dialogue of
Send/Wait commands.
Once again, this is for the power-user adding a lot more power than
the basic TCP/IP network monitoring functionality in the IPSentry
base application. This add-in expands on the simple Send/Receive
functionality required to monitor most TCP connections by allowing a
full session dialogue. With this add-in, you can script logins to
POP3 servers, send test or heartbeat SMTP messages, login to FTP
servers, or virtually any other clear-text top based dialogue over a
raw TCP connection. We have included sample scripts to get you
started for such items as POP3 login, SMTP test just up to the point
of sending, and an FTP login and directory change. This add-in is
not for the faint of heart but that's hardly worth mentioning
because neither is running and maintaining an IT infrastructure...
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DASH Remote Workstation Client
The IPSentry DASH Remote Workstation Client can be installed on
various workstations to provide real-time access and desktop
notification about one or more
IPSentry installations and their monitored entry status information.
The DASH Remote Workstation Client can provide audible and visual
feedback at the workstation regarding changes in device state
(Critical to Normal, Normal to Critical, Unable to access, etc..)
You can also suspend and resume entries as well as apply notations
to the monitored devices for others to view and which will be
available in the HTML Automated output statistics detail for the
device.
This is an ideal feature for local and remote support persons that
want to know the status of monitored entries 'right now'.
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IPSentry Add-In SDK
The IPSentry Add-in SDK is a documentation and sample set for
developers to create their own Add-In components for use with
IPSentry.
The documentation is available for free in our download area and
outlines the basic control interface that IPSentry will use to
perform monitoring and notification using your custom add-ins.
The Add-In SDK documentations provides unlimited power and
capabilities to IPSentry by allowing you to perform alerting,
notification, and action alerts based on any monitoring
functionality conceivable.
View the
Online SDK Documentation
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