DOTCOM-MONITOR's remote network monitoring services keep you informed about your network's status, availability and performance of network applications - that means your entire network functions at top performance and is more profitable.
How does our network monitoring
service work?
Dotcom-Monitor has remote agents positioned on three continents,
acting just like Internet browsers. Once your account has been set
up and the URLs you want monitored are on file, your network
monitoring service begins immediately. Our remote agents will start monitoring your network applications with the frequency that you've set
up. The agents monitor your entire network to insure it is accessible,
that the security is intact, and is maintaining good performance.
If any function falls outside of the specified parameters, our notification
process kicks in and you will get instant reports, so that you can
minimize any down-time, malfunction or breach of security.
Network Monitoring Tools:
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FTP Monitoring Service |
File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
server monitoring. Our network monitoring service connects
to the specified FTP server. It then logs on to the FTP
server using a user name and password you provide and a
directory-listing command is issued for a specific directory.
After the contents of that directory are listed the monitoring
service checks if specified files exist on the server in
that specific directory. If our remote monitoring agents
detect a problem in at any point in the process Dotcom-Monitor
will notify you via the notification process.
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Video Streaming Monitoring |
This option checks video streaming services for performance and availability. This works similar to Windows Media Player. If you can play stream in Media Player, our service should be able to monitor the stream. The service will connect to media server, perform buffering and play stream for 3-5 seconds, after which it will disconnect. It will measure metrics like Connection time, Buffering Time, Received Packages, Buffering Packages, Frame Rate and Average Bytes Per Second.
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POP3 Monitoring Service |
Post Office Protocol version
3 (POP3) monitoring. Our remote network monitoring
agents use a protocol similar to checking e-mail to monitor
POP3 servers. Dotcom-Monitor connects to mail server (POP3
server) and logs in using a user name and password you provide.
For example, when you check your e-mail your e-mail client
connects to a POP3 server using port 110. The POP3 server
requires an account name and a password. Once you have logged
into the POP3 server it opens your text file and allows
you to access it. Dotcom-Monitor uses the same protocol
to monitor your POP3 servers.
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SMTP Monitoring Service |
SMTP Simple Mail Transfer
Protocol (SMTP), the Internet protocol for electronic
mail delivery. Most mail servers today use this protocol
to deliver and receive e-mail.
Whenever you send a piece of e-mail, your e-mail client
interacts with the SMTP server to handle the sending. The
SMTP server on your host may have conversations with other
SMTP servers to actually deliver the e-mail. Our agents
monitor the SMTP server by connecting to specified mail
server and doing an SMTP handshake. If a remote server does
not respond to a handshake or is unavailable you will receive
notification from Dotcom-Monitor.
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SMTP/POP3 Monitoring Service
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This task allows complete end-to-end
monitoring of your Mail servers. First we test the SMTP
server by sending an e-mail to a designated e-mail address.
Then after that e-mail is sent Dotcom-Monitor attempts to
retrieve an e-mail that we send from a POP3 server. If the
SMTP or POP3 processes fail or mail is not found within
a specified time-out period you will receive a notification
from Dotcom-Monitor.
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DNS Monitoring Service |
Domain name servers (DNS)
are used to translate domain names to IP addresses. If the
DNS server that supports your organization is down, multiple
service such as Mail Servers, web sites, proxy servers may
be unavailable to the outside world. We test DNS servers
by querying a specified server in order to resolve a specific
internet address. If the DNS server unable to resolve the
address or unavailable the Dotcom-Monitor notification process
starts.
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DNS Blacklist Monitoring |
We query major DNS Blacklist
databases for IP or host name you specify and if
host has been found in at least one of the database, it
will trigger an alert. The technology is built on top of
the Internet Domain Name System, or DNS. DNSBLs publish
lists of addresses linked to spamming. Most mail transport
agent (mail server) software can be configured to reject
or flag messages which have been sent from a site listed
on one or more such lists. If mail servers were added to
the database, it will cause other companies to deny email
delivery from those servers. It is important to know if
your servers are listed in DNSBLs, so request could be sent
for removal in timely fashion and finding the root cause
for such entry.
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Ping/ICMP Monitoring Service |
Ping/ICMP The ping command sends
an ICMP echo request to a target name or IP address, helping
you to verify IP-level connectivity. This is useful for
ensuring the integrity of routers, firewalls and multiple
Internet appliance devices, and is an important component
of your remote network monitoring services.
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Port Monitoring Service |
This option allows you to monitor
Internet services other then listed above. Our agents will
try to connect to the server specified on the specified
port and see if the remote computer accepts connections
on this port. If the connection is not accepted the service
is probably down and the notification process will start.
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Web Service
SOAP/HTTP Monitoring Service |
SOAP is a lightweight protocol for
the exchange of information in a decentralized, distributed
environment. It is an XML-based protocol that consists of
three parts: an envelope that defines a framework for describing
what is in a message and how to process it, a set of encoding
rules for expressing instances of application-defined data types,
and a convention for representing remote procedure calls
and responses. Dotcom-Monitor agents can replicate one or
more end-client requests and monitor Web Services for availability
and proper content.
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UDP Monitoring Service |
UDP provides users access to IP-like
services. UDP packets are delivered just like IP packets
- connection-less datagrams that may be discarded before
reaching their targets. UDP is useful when TCP would be
too complex, too slow, or just unnecessary. Our network
monitoring agents can test UDP server availability by sending
packets to a specified port and receiving a response.
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Temperature Monitoring Service |
Server temperature monitoring requires
third-party hardware. Refer to the http://www.sensatronics.com/
website for details. Once a TempTrax device is installed,
Dotcom-Monitor can monitor temperature remotely and notify
you if temperature rise or fall beyond specified ranges.
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Custom Script Monitoring Service |
This option is used when a custom
solution needs to be provided to satisfy network monitoring
requirements for a remote system, or the protocols mentioned
above cannot deliver the needed level of monitoring. This
option is useful when a customized and very specific sequence
of monitoring events and actions needs to take place. (Example:
Integrate the monitoring and notification capabilities of
Dotcom-Monitor with your company's help desk ticket-system
and the process of notifying your Internet service provider
if a specific Oracle server goes down etc.) Please, contact
out support department for this option.
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Sign up for our network monitoring
services now:
Dotcom-Monitor offers our
network monitoring tools and network application
monitoring services in an easy-to-customize package. We want to
offer the services you need to keep your business profitable. There
is no special software or hardware needed, except for the server
temperature monitoring, should you choose that option. Best of all,
it takes just a few minutes to open your account. Click here to open your network monitoring
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