Network monitoring
This feature provides a versatile monitoring tool that allows you to define, schedule, and send SMS alerts when server or service status changes, ensuring swift responses to maintain high uptime.
![network monitoring](https://www.smseagle.eu/wpsite/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/network-monitoring.png)
With SMSEagle Network Monitoring feature we give you a tool for monitoring your services or servers. Just define what and when should be monitored. SMSEagle will send you SMS alerts when your services/servers go down or up. Be informed immediately, keep reaction time low, and let your customers be happy with your services.
Read how it works…
![Add Monitoring Task](https://www.smseagle.eu/wpsite/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Monitoring-Task-screen.jpg)
Define what you want to monitor
- Choose a name for the task
- Enter a host (IP address or Hostname)
- Choose ICMP (ping) to monitor a server with ICMP protocol
- or PORT (TCP/UDP) to monitor your service on a selected port (SMSEagle will check if port is open)
- or SNMP to monitor objects (OID) via SNMP protocol (supported return types: numeric, string)
- Increase a default timeout value for busy servers (by default we set it to 30 seconds)
Define a schedule
- Choose if task should be always enabled…
- …or disable it in chosen times
(during a night, when a machine goes through planned restarts, during resource intensive backups, etc.) - Enter a phone number or choose a group of users to send your SMS alert to
- Select when to send SMS alert (when host/service goes down, when host/service goes up after failure)
![Add Monitoring Task](https://www.smseagle.eu/wpsite/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Monitoring-Task-2-screen.jpg)
Control a status of your tasks
- See a settings’ overview for all of your tasks
- Check which server/service is currently unavailable
- See when a specific server/service was last down (last downtime)
- Check what happened at last downtime (see server/service response)
- Edit/delete your tasks
- Disable tasks when needed (eg. when doing a machine upgrades)
Define a SMS alert message
Define your SMS messages when host or service becomes unavailable/comes back to life. Choose field placeholders for your SMS text:
- {TASKNAME} – puts a taskname inside SMS text
- {HOST} – hostname or IP address
- {RESPONSE} – message received (in case of no response from server/service)
- {TIMESTAMP} – timestamp of an error
![networkmonitor_4](https://www.smseagle.eu/wpsite/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/networkmonitor_4.jpg)
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Receive SMS alerts
- Be alerted when your services/servers go down (or go up after failure)
- Give yourself a chance to react quickly
Make your customers happy with keeping high uptime ratio 🙂
SNMP TRAPS
SNMP trap is a popular mechanism used to manage and monitor devices’ activities across a small or a global network via SNMP. What makes the Trap unique from other messages is that they are triggered instantaneously by an agent, rather than waiting for a status request from the SNMP Manager.
![SNMP TRAPS v4](https://www.smseagle.eu/wpsite/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/SNMP-TRAPS-v4.png)
Adding/editing SNMP Traps rule
For each rule a user can define:
- If a message should be sent “always” or only “for specified IP / when trap contains
- Set IP, Object ID, SNMP return value and type
- Recipients of SMS
- Set a message
![SNMP TRAPS Rule v4](https://www.smseagle.eu/wpsite/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/SNMP-TRAPS-Rule-v4.png)