Administration

This section contains setup of parameters affecting behavior of the system and its monitoring loop. Some parameters are static and require restart of the application; others are dynamic and those can be changed while running.

Start / Stop button

Start or stop the main monitoring loop. No checks are performed when the loop is stopped.

Common

1. Scheduler

• Sampling period
  Monitoring loop interval in milliseconds. All modules/URL’s and patterns will be checked at these intervals.

• Daily report schedule
  Schedule of sending monitoring statistics email and information SMS through GSM. The entry has crontab format. (See e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron#Fields for specifications)
  Statistics email contains daily report of the previous day. It is sent to all active reporters per module.
  Text message notifies that the system is alive. It is sent to all active reporters.

• Number of repeated Url errors for alert call
  Number of consecutive URL call errors before calling reporter. The reporter will be notified every nth consecutive error per URL until the problem is resolved.

• Number of repeated pattern errors for alert call
  Number of consecutive pattern errors before calling reporter. The reporter will be notified immediately when the pattern error occurs and then every nth consecutive error on the pattern until the problem is resolved.

• Maximum hostory data age
  Number of months to keep logging data in database. Older records are automatically deleted to avoid expanding the database with unnecessary data. The deleting is performed at time of daily reports.

2. Email server settings

• Email dispatcher period
  Alert emails are generated independently from the monitoring process, in time loops of this period.

• SMTP server address
  Address of the SMTP server for dispatching emails.

• SMTP server port
  Port of the SMTP server for dispatching emails. (Empty field defaults to 25)

• Sender address
  Email address to use as sender of all generated emails.
  

User

• Current password
  Current password must be entered to apply a new one

• New user name
  New user name to be used for access to the system

• New password
  New password to be used for access to the system

• New password confirmation
  Re-enter new password to eliminate typing error

GSM Modem

GSM modem settings

• Enabled
  Turn GSM reporting on or off. This is the general activation/deactivation of the GSM modem. It affects error-reporting calls and daily SMS notifications.
• Ethernet converter IP address and port
  IP address and port of the Ethernet/RS232 converter to the GSM modem, when used. The format is address:port.
  Ethernet communication will be used for GSM modem if this field is not empty.
• COM port name
  Serial port name for communication with GSM modem.
  Ethernet converter IP address and port must be empty to use COM port for GSM modem.
  To enable this field, you have to upload RXTX library into your application server.
• PIN
  PIN of the SIM card inserted in the GSM modem

When of using GSM communication through GSM modem (with or without Ethernet converter), AT control commands must be set for particular GSM modem. Standard command values are prefilled by default; they can be modified here when using different GSM modems.

Every command has defined the command string and expected answer to check successful result.

• Initialize
  Device initialization at the beginning

• Login
  When the modem is not registered to network, it will be registered by this command and PIN

• Validation
  Verification of GSM network authorization

• Call
  AT command used for GSM calling

• Send SMS
  Command for sending SMS via GSM modem

• SMS format
  Command for SMS format setup (not flash SMS)