webALERT Web Site Monitor Help - Website Monitoring Software for Windows

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Welcome to the webALERT Help Page :

webALERT is a powerful website monitoring application that's been designed to be extraordinarily easy to use. Each functional aspect of the webALERT interface has been explained below to provide additional information for new users.

If you have any questions about the software, please contact us at support@lonewolf-software.com

webALERT Menu options :

Preferences Menu :

StartUp : if enabled webALERT will start automatically whenever you turn on (bootup) your computer.

Alarm: Options to Enable/Disable the Alarm
and Set sound file (.wav) to use for alarm

PING: Enable/disable Ping test - if enabled, the website address is pinged at the next freq. check. If the Ping response returns an error code, the code is interpreted and the error displayed, otherwise the response time is measured and displayed in milliseconds. (NOTE: Some ISP's block pings. Disable the Ping test if the website is blocking the ping.)

DNS : Enable/disable DNS test - if enabled, the websites DNS resolution is tested at the next freq. check. If the DNS resolves correctly to an IP address, the address will be displayed in the DNS Result section (upper right corner).

HTTP: Enable/disable HTTP test - if enabled, the websites HTTP visibility is tested at the next freq. check by downloading the actual HTML code from the lead-in page.

System Tray menu options :

The System Tray normally is located in the bottom right corner of your Desktop window. When you are running webALERT you will see the webALERT Tray icon displayed there . Right clicking on the icon will open a popup menu of options (displayed at right).

Show - Displays the webALERT window

Hide - minimizes the webALERT window back to the System Tray.

Pause - Pauses monitoring of the website.

Continue - Restarts monitoring of the website.

Terminate - Saves all results, terminates monitoring of the website and closes the webALERT window.

1. Website Address : Enter the web address of the website that you want to monitor.

2. Results table : Displays all results compiled for the website being monitored. (Query Time, Ping/DNS/HTTP test results). Right Click on the Results table to open a popup menu of options.

3. Mode Tabs : Click on the different mode tabs (Results,Analysis,Graph) to view the performance history of the website being monitored.

4. Overall Website Status Indicator : Indicates the current status of the website being monitored.

= OK = Failure = paused or unknown status

5. Test parameter status indicators : Indicates the current status for each parameter (Ping, DNS, HTTP) being tested.

= ok = failed = unknown status

6. DNS Result : Displays the IP address that the Domain Name Server for your website is resolving too. Also displays status messages.

7. Minimize to System Tray button : Click on this button to hide the webALERT window and run the program in the "background" from the System Tray.

8. Frequency Selection Slider : Click your mouse and hold on the Slider to change the monitoring frequency (minutes). Move the slider UP to increase and DOWN to decrease.

9. Toggle Alarm On/OFF button : Click to quickly toggle the alarm off/on.

USER TIPS:

Test all 3 website parameters (Ping,DNS,HTTP) to insure your website is online and running smoothly.
Use a testing Frequency of 5 - 10 minutes (less if you suspect your website is having problems)
Set webALERT to run automatically when you startup your computer.
Watch the "average Ping response time" to determine if your website is responding quickly to visitor requests. Response times over 100 ms is slow.
Occasionally check the "Graph" mode option to check response consistency. Each point plotted is a response time from a Ping test. Red points are ping failures. "Good" websites should have green points near the "average ping response" line.
If you hear the alarm, your website is failing. Let webALERT continue to monitor so that it can measure the time your website is "Down".
Periodically check the "Todays Results" section to check the "Total Down Time" especially if you have been monitoring the website while away from your computer.