Global Up Time Monitoring Service Protocols
 

Monitoring Protocols :
  Dns monitoring - The Domain Name System more often referred to as DNS is run by Name Servers or Domain Name Servers, also referred to as Dns, resolve your URL ( www.globalwebmonitor.com ) to an IP address (124.123.1234 ). If your Name Servers are down your address cannot be resolved and your website will not be found and can take as long as 48 hours to propagate your IP address through the name servers on the internet. If your website is outsourced you will have to get the Dns address from your hosting company.

  Basic HTTP monitoring - Most commonly monitored item is used to monitor web pages.

  Basic HTTPS monitoring - Monitor secure web pages

  Ping - Monitors network appliances and servers. Essential tool for testing the integrity of network appliances like firewalls, NIC cards and routers.

  IMAP monitoring - Internet Message Access Protocol used for email retrieval on a remote server from a local client. Similar to POP3 useful for mail servers critical to your business. IMAP and POP3 are the most common mail protocols used today

  Full page URL HTTP/S monitoring - Used to monitor web pages for unauthorized changes and has the capability to check for authorized and unauthorized keywords and key phrases in your web pages.

  Nttp

  SMTP monitoring - Simple Mail Transfer Protocol monitoring allows you to monitor the server your business uses to send email.

  POP3 monitoring - Post Office Protocol v3 application layer Internet standard protocol and uses a TCP/IP connection to retrieve email from a remote server to a local client. Monitoring allows you to minimize loss of email messages because of downtime.

  Telnet monitoring - Monitors telnet servers.

  Port check - Port monitoring is useful when checking dependencies for your network appliances and servers and when allowing remote access to your servers. A listing of standard port numbers can be found at the IANA website. 

  Port security check - Our port security check is the first of its kind in the website monitoring industry and is a great way to detect ports that should be closed all of the time at your business or you can schedule port monitoring to detect open ports that should be closed during off hours. You can also use it to detect if a Trojan horse or careless employee has opened a port that should be closed. A listing of Trojan Horses and the ports they use can be found at the Sys-Security Group website.

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