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IPSentry - Server Settings

When adding or modifying a device to monitor, you will be presented with the IPSentry Machine Options Editor which contains various selections required to define the item being monitored.

From this area, you will be selecting the type of monitored item as well as the various alert and notification options specific to the entry.

Some important information to keep in mind when configuring server settings relates to the "types" of monitoring items located on the left hand side of the Server Settings tab.

• Network
  Signifies that you will be monitoring a TCP/IP accessible device.  This device can be a standard item such as PING, HTTP, SMTP, POP3, etc.  This device can also be non-standard or experimental using custom port settings such as a web server accessible only on port 8080 or a telnet login request test to a router.
  
  You should check this device type if the item being monitored listens on a given port for an incoming connection and either accepts data or transmits data on that TCP/IP connection.
   

• Drive
  Signifies that you will be evaluating drive space (in bytes) on a local drive or network accessible storage device.  You may access the device using either a pre-mapped drive letter designation, or by using a UNC share specification (eg. \\MYSERVER\MYSHARE\ )
  
  In either case, you will be configuring the lower limit of drive space allowed before triggering any defined alerts.
    

• NT Service
  Signifies that you will be checking an NT system on your network and evaluating a specific service to ensure that it's status is "Running".  IPSentry MUST be running under a security context allowing access to the remote systems service control manager either by way of specific user rights and/or trust relationships.
   

• Add-In
  This is by far the most confusing option on this tab.  You will notice that on the Machine Options Editor window, there is also a tab named "Add-In". (We changed it to Add-In Alert).  
  
  If you will be using an add-in to "monitor" something, you will configure that add-in under the "Server Settings" tab.  You will NOT configure the add-in under the "Add-In" tab.
  
  Note: The Add-In tab is used only for add-ins that are designed to "react" or "alert" based on the results of a monitoring task.

In all cases, the input fields will change to accommodate the information required to perform the specified monitoring action as each of the device types will require information that is unique to that activity.

Related Topics

• IPSentry - Server Settings - Network

• IPSentry - Server Settings - Drive Space

• IPSentry - Server Settings - NT Service

• IPSentry - Server Settings - Add-Ins

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