Monitoring your servers with ServerPing is quick and easy.
Setting up your alert contacts
- First, login to our Client Area at https://www.serverping.net/clients/clientarea.php
- From the toolbar menu, click Server Monitoring -> Alert Contacts
- Click Add New Alert Contact
- Enter in the contacts name and email address, if you have purchased SMS credits you can also enter in your cell phone number.
- After you click save, you will be able to enter in additional email addresses and cell phone numbers on the next screen.
- Everytime you click save to add a new email and/or cell phone number a new line will appear to add a new contact method.
Setting up your notification lists
- First, login to our Client Area at https://www.serverping.net/clients/clientarea.php
- From the toolbar menu, click Server Monitoring -> Notification Lists
- Click Add New Notification List
- Enter in a name for your notification list, it can be anything you would like
- On the next screen, select the contact to add from the drop down box and click save
- Next, you can change the Send First Aler, Repeat, Max Alerts per Failure, Recovery Alert for this contact and click save
- You can also add addition contacts by selecting them from the drop down list.
Setting up your checks
- First, login to our Client Area at https://www.serverping.net/clients/clientarea.php
- From the toolbar menu, click Server Monitoring -> Checks
- Click Add New Check
- From this screen you will be able to enter in the hostname/url of the server to check and what service you would like to check
- Be sure to select a notification list from the notification list drop down. This list will be used in the event of a failure of the check.
