Atomic Watch - Website Monitoring Software
Atomic Watch - Website Monitoring Software
Index:
Overview
Installation
Adding A Site
Removing A Site
Modify A Site
Setup (Preferences)
Monitoring
Automatically starting with windows
Uninstalling
Support
System Requirements
Overview:
Atomic Watch is a website monitoring program which runs on any Windows
95/98/2000/NT/ME/XP computer.
Once set up, it sits as a in the system tray as a periscope icon,
watching your websites at a given interval and alerting you when it
cannot be reached or a given word or string cannot be found in the text of the page.
If the program detects your website is down, it will alert you via email,
sound or by calling a given URL. You could send the email to a paging
service to ensure you are contacted 24X7 or use the URL to run a program
to reset the server or use other automated functionality on your site,
or again to activate a pager or SMS.
You should start by setting up your preferences and testing the sending of emails and error urls.
Then Simply add the URLs to monitor to the main screen and the actions to take,
and press "Monitor" to start monitoring them.
Installation:
After downloading Atomic Watch from our website, one of the mirrors or a
shareware site, simply double click on the exe file.
You will then be guided through the installation process a screen at a time.
Adding a Site to Monitor:
Name - The name of the site that you are monitoring
Used for reporting and logging.
URL - The URL to download from the site
You can load http or https (secure) pages from your server.
To load password protected pages use the format:
http://username:password@url.com
Test String - The string to look for in the HTML page
If you leave this field blank, the program will report only download or server errors.
Action - Email/Sound/URL or any combination
If email is set it will email the emails set in preferences on error
If url is set it will load the url set in Error URL on error
If sound is set it will play the sound set in preferences on error
Error URL - The URL to load if an error occurs
Create Date - The date the site was added to the program
Status - The current status of the site
Check Date - The last time the program checked the site
Simply fill in the fields above and press the "Add" button on the right and
your site will be added to the list. Press the "Clear" button on the right
and you are ready to add another site. You could of course simply leave the
fields filled in and edit them if you want to use that as a starting point.
Removing a Site
Select the site in the list at the bottom of the interface by clicking on the
entry you wish to remove (it turns blue), then press the "Remove" button on
the right of the interface.
Modifying a Site
Select the site in the list at the bottom of the interface by clicking on the
entry you wish to edit, it turns blue and the fields at the top fill with the
information about that site, then edit the fields and press the "Modify" button
on the right of the interface.
Setting up your Preferences:
Before using AWatch, you should set your preferences in order to send
notification emails, set the log location, monitoring interval and even
set the program to load automatically each time windows starts.
Below is a list of fields available in preferences:
Your Name - Your name, used to send the notification emails from
Your Email - Your email, used to send the notification emails from
Interval - How often to check the sites, in minutes
Notify - Allows the program to act on all errors or only new errors
Email 1 - Email to send error reports to
Email 2 - Second email to send error reports to
SMTP Server - SMTP server to send email through (Provided by your ISP or Web Host)
Log File - Name and location of the log file to write to, defaults to log.txt
Error Sound - Allows you to specify a wav file to play on error
Tool Tips - Toogles tool tips on or off
Add to Startup - Adds Atomic Watch to the start menu so it automatically starts each time you start windows. The program will remember if it was monitoring the last time it was running and continue to monitor if it was monitoring.
Monitoring:
Once you have set up your preferences and entered some sites to monitor, simply press the "Monitor" button on the right hand side of the interface. When the program is monitoring the sites, the "Monitor" button will change to the "Stop Monitor" button and pressing it will stop the monitoring. If you have added the program to the start menu, it will remember it's monitoring status from the last time the computer was running and either continue to monitor or not.
Logging
Atomic Watch will automatically log to the file set in preferences or log.txt in it's home folder if one is not specified.
You should periodically remove the log file.
Automatically Starting with Windows:
You can set Atomic Watch to load automatically every time you start windows or restart your
machine by ticking the "Add to Startup" tickbox on the bottom of the preferences
section of the program.
You can also do it by creating a shortcut in the Startup section of the Programs section of
windows.
Uninstalling:
To uninstall the program:
Use the Add/Remove Programs option under Start->Settings->Control Panel.
Support:
Sales Support:
Sales, Feedback or Non-Technical questions should be directed to our sales department.
Sales Support: sales@info-pack.com
Technical Support:
Technical questions should be directed to our support department.
Technical Support: support@info-pack.com
Lost Registration:
Lost registration details can be retrieved using this form:
Your registration details will be emailled to you the next working day.
System Requirements:
Pentium or greater CPU
10 MB Hard Disk Space
Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
VGA or greater display
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