Configuring the Monitor Server
After making changes to the Monitor, Notifications, or Monitor Web Server tabs, stop the monitor service, wait five to ten seconds and restart the service.
To configure the Monitor server:
- In the left panel, expand the Services folder and select the Monitor service.
- In the right panel, click the Monitor tab. The Monitor settings appear as shown below.
- Select the services that you want to monitor. For each service that you select, you can click the associated arrow button to access configuration options. For example, if you click the arrow button for the SMTP service, the following dialog box appears
- Make sure the Monitor this service option is selected. If you want the service to automatically restart after going down, select the Auto Restart this Service option.
- You do not need to set the service name and IP address for the services that are part of IMail Server. These services are SMTP, POP3, IMAP4, Whois, Finger, LDAP, System Logger, Password, and Queue Manager.
- For services that are not part of the IMail Server system (such as DNS), you can enter a service name if the service is local, or an IP address if the service is on a remote system.
- If you have defined and enabled email, pager, and/or beeper notifications, select Notify if Down and the Notify when Up after Down as desired. For information on setting up notifications, see "Working with Notifications". For information on enabling notifications, see "Enabling Notifications".
- Click OK to exit the Monitor Configuration dialog box and return to the Monitor tab.
- (Optional) Select Monitor default gateway. Click the arrow to display configuration options, select the options you want to use, and click OK.
- (Optional) Select Monitor disk space, then click the arrow to display the Monitor Configuration dialog box, enter the desired options and click OK.
- In the Check Every nn seconds box, specify how often the monitor program should poll the services.
- In the Timeout after box, enter the number of seconds to wait for a response.
