Dejal Simon 4.0.1 (Mac Os X)

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[B][SIZE=3][COLOR="#006400"]Dejal Simon 4.0.1 [k'ed][/COLOR][/SIZE][/B]

 

A Major Upgrade!

Dejal Simon 4: four years after version 3, four months in development, it's time to go forth. Simon 4 includes a fresh new design, unifying all of the lists, logs and editors into a single window, so everything is at your fingertips. It also uses a more attractive layout for the lists of tests, services, filters, notifiers and reports. A much requested enhancement is the introduction of groups, enabling you to organize your tests, services, etc into logical collections. Those with lots of tests will be pleased to learn that the limits on the number of tests have been removed, everyone can have as many tests as they wish. This also simplifies the pricing for new and existing customers. There are numerous other enhancements too, like email services, a context filter, filter output in the preview, password protection, the ability to hide from the Dock, and much more. Read on for details.

 

Essential site monitoring tool for Mac OS X. It checks servers for changes or failures, and notifies you via e-mail, sound, speech, Twitter, or other means. You can use it to track updated sites, and to alert you when an important server goes down or recovers. Developed in Cocoa, it is a native Mac OS X application with an intuitive and attractive interface. Simon is very versatile. It can be used to monitor your own website and servers, track posts and new comments on your or friends' blogs, check for web mail, get notifications of updates to favorite news and entertainment websites, keep an eye on auctions, and many other uses.

 

Monitor Your Sites and Servers

Central to Simon is the Monitor window. It enables you to see at a glance the current status of all of your monitored websites, servers, and applications. In addition to a colorful status icon and up-time percentage, the tests table displays how long ago the last change and failure occurred, and when the next check will occur. But that's not all. This window also displays further statistics about the tests, and tables listing recent checks (including the check duration and a bar chart), changes (including the text that changed), failures (including the error description), and activity, including when tests start checking, and the various steps during the check (starting, stopping, service result, each filter, notifications, etc), plus other actions on tests, e.g. editing, pausing, etc. Because sometimes you don't want to have another window cluttering up your screen, you can hide the Monitor window if you wish, and/or use the handy Dock or Status menus. The Dock menu includes quick access to Simon's windows, and some global functions. The Status menu includes all that plus displays all of your tests, complete with status icons, details via tooltip, and the option to perform a favorite action or display a sub-menu of quick-access operations for each test, so you can visit the site or other tasks without even having Simon visible.

 

Put it to the Test

So how do you tell Simon what to monitor? That's where the New/Edit Test window comes in. This window has lots of options to help you configure each test, conveniently arranged on multiple pages:

 

• The Summary page contains fields to name the test and write a description of it, plus an overview of values from other pages, with clickable titles to jump right to that value.

• The Options page enables you to specify how often to check the test (when the previous check was successful or failed), and other useful options.

• The Service page is where you choose what to check and enter the URL or whatever other information it needs. Read about services below.

• The Filters page is one of the key areas of Simon. You can easily tell the test to ignore parts of the service output, concentrate on just the area that interests you, detect changes from the previous check, and much more. Read about filters below.

• The Notifiers page can be used to indicate how to alert you when a change is detected, if the service goes down, recovers from a failure, or if a filter detects a problem. Read about notifiers below.

• The Reports page specifies whether the test should appear on some or all reports. Read about reports below.

• The Auto Pause page enables you to tell Simon not to check on specified days or time intervals. For example if you know that a server will be unavailable, perhaps during a periodic reboot or regular maintenance, or you simply don't want to know about changes at certain times, like of a blog when you should be working.

 

 

Note:

Simon automatically detects when you don't have a network connection, and waits for it to return. Plus if you run Simon on a laptop that you often take to Wi-Fi hotspots, you can enable an option in the preferences to detect hotspot login pages, to avoid interpreting them as a change or failure in the monitored website.

The Web (HTTP) service is one of the most popular, for monitoring normal web pages (as opposed to other things like MySQL databases, network volumes, or local Applications). The Setup Assistant makes it easy to mass import bookmarks from web browsers, picking and choosing which to import. Also, you can simply drag a URL from a browser or other application to the Monitor window to add it as a new test.

 

 

At Your Service

Several services come built-in. Services tell Simon how to check a test. They include, among others:

• Application: Make sure an application is present, and optionally running — can re-launch if not via Launch notifier.

• DNS and Specific DNS: Query a domain name server to ensure the domain is visible.

• Drive Status: Checks the drive capacity threshold, S.M.A.R.T. status, and RAID health.

• FTP: Look at a file on an FTP server, to detect its availability or changes.

• FTP Directory Listing: Watch a directory listing on an FTP server, to detect added, changed, or deleted files.

• Incoming Mail (IMAP): Communicate with an IMAP mail server, to make sure it is available, and/or look for new

messages.

• Incoming Mail (POP): Another kind of mail server (plus a SSL-enabled edition is also available).

• Mount: Mount a local, AFP, or SMB volume to ensure it's available.

• MySQL: Connect to a local or remote MySQL database and perform a query to ensure it is working.

• Network Time (NTP): Checks that a network time server is responding.

• Outgoing Mail (SMTP): Outgoing mail usually goes via a SMTP server; make sure it is available (plus a SSL variation).

• Ping: Ping any server to check responsiveness; you can specify timeout and packet loss limits.

• Port Available: Like the Port services, but simply checks if a port is open, without actually communicating on it.

• Samba SMB: Checks that a Samba SMB client is online and responding.

• Screenshot: Takes a screenshot whenever the test is checked. Useful to track activity on the machine.

• S.M.A.R.T. Status: Checks the S.M.A.R.T. status for all volumes.

• SNMP Status: Checks the status of a SNMP-connected device; it's a failure if it is not up.

• System Error Log: Results in a failure if a specified error message occurs in today's system.log.

• SSH: Converse with a remote secure shell session.

• TCP Port Scanner: Checks the status of all TCP ports on a server.

• Twitter: Monitors Twitter updates, direct messages, friends, followers, and more for changes and/or failures.

• Web (HTTP): Check a website for changes or failures.

 

Usually the built-in services are ample, but what if you want to delve deeper? Sometimes you have a special requirement and want to check some other kind of server. Not a problem! You can customize the services to edit the defaults for the built-in ones, or even add new ones. Similar to the New/Edit Test window, the New/Edit Service window enables you to change the services — and lets you auto-pause a service, affecting all tests that use that service.

 

What's New Version 4.0.1:

• Fixed an issue with duplicating a test where filter settings could become linked with the original until quit.

• Fixed a localization issue with the Method popup menu in the Web (HTTP) service.

• Fixed layout of the Twitter and SMS notifier editors.

• Fixed issues with selecting URLs to import in the Setup Assistant.

• Fixed the Dock icon static animation getting mixed with the normal status icon when checking or uploading reports while the Licenses or Setup Assistant windows are displayed.

• Changed the way relative dates are formatted, to make them more compatible with localizations.

• While uploading a report, a circular progress indicator is now displayed in the Reports list.

• Fixed the scheduler not starting until the Tests list is displayed.

• Tweaked the layout of the Context views, and made localizable.

 

[B]Mac Platform: [/B]

Intel, 64-bit processor

OS X 10.10 or later

 

 

 

 

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