This is a web site monitor program that no web site owner should be without!
You can start the program without any command line options if you want, but you may have a command line to select any particular configuration. For example: webpagemoniter1.exe techjim, or you can put any customer name in here.
While running Web Page Monitor, you can see at a glance how reliable each web page is. The reliability percentage is carried out to 3 decimal places, so you can see if something is truly hi-reliable (99.999% or higher).
The first time your web page fails, you will get a visual alarm, but not audio. The second time your web page fails, you will get a visual and audio alert.
At startup the title bar in Web Page Monitor will be "All Green Since Start Up". If any web pages fail, even for a single download, then starts working again, the title bar will be "All Green Now". If Web Page Monitor has been running for a long time and you see "All Green Since Start Up" in the title, this means there has been no web page failure since you started the program.
To view any of the log files while you are monitoring the web sites, click the button for the site two times. The first click will mute the audio, the second will open the log for the site in question. Viewing a log automatically puts the log into the Windows Clipboard.
If you do have a command line option running, the text will actually be: "All Green Since Startup. (your command line) or the appropriate message with your command line included.
After Web Page Monitor starts monitoring web sites, most of the current screen will go away. The only thing from the original screen will be the help button.
You will see a button for each site in question. Green buttons will show up if the site is working correctly. You see text in the button that says 'Working' and shows your URL. If you have already muted any of the web site alerts, you will see the same button will change to light green.
If you have any sites that are not working, the button will be red. The text on the button will say 'Site NOT Working", how many failures it has had, contact phone, and the URL.
You can click any of these buttons to mute the audio for that web site. After you mute an audio alarm the web sites that are not working are dark green.
If the web sites are working, you will see a green button that says 'Working' and the URL.
When you start Web Page Monitor you will see a count down in the title starting with 59 seconds. If you click in any field or the browser, this clock will reset itself to 59 seconds again. At this point Web Page Monitor will automatically start in the number of seconds shown. General auto start is in one minute. You can hit the Start Monitor button at any time to start it now. Any time you click in any of the fields, you will reset the auto start to 59 seconds again.
If you run a 24/7 IT shop, this is a must have.
If you are an 8 to 5 operation, but would like to monitor the web site 24/7, you can put this on your machine at home and monitor from there.
To start monitoring web sites, click the Start Monitor button.
Each site you are monitoring can have a unique sound for alarm. If you do not set it to something, windows ringin.wav is the default setting.
Each site can be downloaded as often as every minute. The default setting is every 10 minutes.
The frequency at which you download the sites can be unique to each site in question. So if you have a very important site you may want to download it every minute, and have all the other sites download every 3 minutes (or anything else you decide).
This is a web page monitor program. All this does is, download the web pages you have selected over and over. If there is a problem, you get an audio alert and a visual alert. You can mute any individual audio alert on the fly by clicking the red button.
If you run a daytime shop, you can put this on your own PC at home and run it.
You can use this software for a million web pages downloads, and you will never get a cached page! We do not use a browser to download the page so you never have to worry about clearing out temp files are caching web page content.
Part of our service we offer at TechJim.com is web page monitoring, this is the software we use for that.
Web Page Monitor actually downloads each web page just as you would with a browser, and then searches through the data on the web site for what ever you want to. At startup you will see for text boxes you can type in. They are: URL (such as techjim.com). Phone (such as call Jim at 940-641-0076). Search Text (such as This is a web site monitor program that no web site owner should be without!). Alarm Sound (such as c:\winnt\media\ringin.wav). Minutes to Wait (such as 10).
If you do not put an http:// on the front of your web site, Web Page Monitor will do it for you.
You can have any information you want on the Phone line. It can be just a phone number or you can have a name of a person and a phone number.
Search Text is the text that you are looking for in the web page. If there is a web page at this location, but it is not what it should be, you should know about that as well.
Alarm Sound is the file name of the when a site is not working correctly.
Minutes to Wait is the number of minutes to wait between downloads. If you do not enter anything here, Web Page Monitor will set it to 10 minutes.
If a site is not working, you will hear the alarm in the title bar you will see the web site in question, is not working, phone number to call, and an exact number of the missed downloads.
Web Page Monitor automatically creates logs for each site you are monitoring. These logs are created at the time you start Web Page Monitor.
The log file names are c:\occc\webpagemonitorXX.txt where XX starts at 01 and counts up to 99. If you have a command line option running, we used techjim for our example: the log files will be: c:\occc\webpagemonlog01techjim.txt"
To add a new site to be monitored, fill in the URL, Phone, and Search Text as a minimum. If you want a different sound than ringin.wav, you type it in the Alarm Sound field or drill down on the file name in Configure mode. Click the Save Site Info button to save the changes to your configuration.
To edit any of the sites in question, click the Configure button, and then select the items from the list of URLs on the left side of the screen.
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System Requirements:
You will need Internet Explore for the Help Screen
350 MHz or faster
256 Megabytes RAM
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Operating Systems Tested on:
Windows Vista
Windows 2000
Windows XP
Windows 2003 Server
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