Network Monitoring Features
DynDNS' Network Monitoring service features a full set of tools available for the detection of problems with your network, host, or service. A web-based interface provides complete control over the items that you wish to monitor.
Features
The list below explains the feature set built into the Network Monitoring service.
- Monitoring of an IP address or single A record hostname
- Support for hosts on dynamic IP addresses, using our Dynamic DNS service
- Contacts defined for each host, with additional per-service contacts also available
- Two forms of contact templates, "Normal" for e-mail clients, and "Abbreviated" for pagers or cell phones.
- Up to ten (10) services monitored per host.
- A wide selection of checks (listed below)
- Checks directed to non-standard port numbers
- Expected Data Checks - The ability to check the returned data for a specific string
- Variable Check Intervals - 10 minutes, 20 minutes, 30 minutes, or 1 hour
- At-a-glance view of host and service status
- Complete logging of host and service transitions and notifications (GREEN, YELLOW, RED)
- Correlated checks from multiple agent sites located in Detroit, MI and San Jose, CA
Available Checks
The following is a list of the checks available:
- TCP::SMTP -- SMTP Server Check
- TCP::POP3 -- POP3 Server Check
- TCP::FTP -- FTP Server Check
- TCP::HTTP -- HTTP Web Server Check
- ICMP::PING -- PING Check
- TCP::Port -- TCP Port Connect Check
- TCP::HTTPS -- HTTPS Web Server Check
- TCP::SSH -- SSH Server Check
- TCP::IMAP -- IMAP Server Check
- TCP::IMAPS -- Secure IMAP Server
- TCP::POP3S -- Secure POP3 Server
- UDP::DNS -- DNS Server
- TCP::SMTPS -- Secure SMTP Server Check
