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Server Siren 1.0
That “coming soon” spot on the front page of the website has been there too long, so today I’m releasing Server Siren 1.0. It’s a handy menu bar item that watches servers for you and alerts you if they go down. It can send you an email, SMS, or even run an AppleScript if your server can’t be reached. In addition, there are logging and reporting functions making it easy to keep a close eye on all of your servers.
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May 22nd, 2006 at 5:22 am
How can i monitor a mail server?
May 22nd, 2006 at 7:23 am
Monitoring a mailserver is easy. In Server Siren, all you need to do is set the port number to whatever port your mailserver is running on (25 for POP, for example).
June 7th, 2006 at 7:04 am
Great start on 1.0 !
Evaluating now, but would really like the option for Server Siren to look for a specifc text response when checking a web page to verify the web site is not only up, but functional. For example on a database driven site, the web page that Server Siren monitors could bring up a specific item from the database. If Server Siren sees and matches that text somewhere in the response, it considers that a success, otherwise triggers the alarm.
June 7th, 2006 at 7:10 am
Cris:
Checking a server for a certain string is not always possible, but we will look into it.
Thanks!
August
June 9th, 2006 at 2:10 am
Hi!
Your 1.0 is a nice release. Though there are some ‘missing features’ and user-interface issues i’d like to tell you about.
* There should be a way to check for UDP-Ports too (UDP as in DNS UDP)
* There should be a simple ICMP-Check like a ‘ping’
* There should be a way to move items in the server list up and down
* There should be a way to group servers and services
* There should be a way to give the services a name
* There should be a way to add more port or services to a server
The first three suggestions are very important and the second three ones would allow a price raise or a ‘pro’ version that at least I woul license for certain.
I don’t know how much work it may be to implement my suggestions but I’m really looking forward to a ‘pro’ version or an update to 1.1.
Best regards,
Jan Manuel
June 9th, 2006 at 7:47 am
Thanks for the suggestions, Jan!
I’ll see what I can do about these (no promises), but I’m always looking for new ideas and suggestions.
One thing, though — maybe I misunderstand what you’re saying, but you _can_ rename your servers. You can do this in the Server Management panel by changing the name either in the list of servers or in the individual server details (by clicking on the name, of course).
Also, you can add more ports/services to a server by simply adding another “server.” The reason it’s done this way, instead of having a single server with lots of ports to monitor is so you can have different alerts for each port. That said, I’ll also look into this and see what I can do.
Thanks!
October 4th, 2006 at 4:58 pm
Hi, i just tried this application and would really like to use it – if it was possible to send a SMS in Europe / Germany… is this difficult to implement? Thanks – Peter
(I tried to instruct my Mobilephone Service-Provider to send me an SMS when ServerSiren sent them an email – it worked. Somehow… the Phone Service took about 2 hours to get the SMS out… If ServerSiren could send the SMS directly it would be much faster…)