Dejal announces Simon 4.2 - Server Monitoring Tool

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Dejal announces Simon 4.2 - Server Monitoring Tool - Published on 03/02/16

Portland based Dejal Systems, LLC has announced Simon 4.2, an update to the essential server monitoring tool for Mac OS X. Simon checks web pages, FTP and DNS servers, local or remote ports or volumes, and many other kinds of services for changes or failures. HTML reports enable remote viewing of a summary and/or details of Simon monitoring. Version 4.2 includes new exclusion and difference analysis filters, email, preview and reports improvements, and much more.

Portland, Oregon - Dejal Systems, LLC has announced the immediate availability of Dejal Simon 4.2, the essential server monitoring tool for Mac OS X. It checks web pages, FTP and DNS servers, local or remote ports or volumes, and other services for changes or failures, and notifies you via email, sound, speech, Twitter, SMS, HTML reports, and other means.

Add tests to Simon to track updated sites, to alert you when an important server goes down or recovers, check on Samba SMB, take periodic screenshots of the system, track posts and new comments on your or friends' blogs, check for web mail, make sure a key application is running, get notifications of updates to favorite news and entertainment websites, keep an eye on auctions, and many other uses.

Services include Web (HTTP) to check web pages (including secure ones, and supporting POST and cookies), FTP files and directory listings, DNS, Ping servers, see Twitter updates, watch a local Application, capture periodic Screenshots, watch for System Log Errors, and more. Plus, you can easily add your own services via custom port connections, AppleScripts, shell scripts, or Perl, PHP, Python, etc.

Use filters to avoid dynamic content and detect changes in the output of the service and other filters. You can look at multiple portions, or the 10th occurrence, find via simple text matching or powerful regular expressions. You can also remove HTML tags or numbers from the text, result in a change or failure if some text is found or missing, only detect a change if a number changes by some threshold, or is out of range, and many more possibilities.

Receive notification of changes, failures, and/or recoveries via various Actions, auto-generated Email messages, Growl notifications, Twitter updates or direct messages, SMS messages, an audible Sound, or customizable Speech. You can use custom scripts and port sessions for notifiers too.

HTML reports enable remote viewing of a summary and/or details of Simon monitoring. Reports can be saved to a local web server, or uploaded remotely. Customizable templates (with several examples provided) allow embedding in a web page, using a compact format suitable for viewing on PDAs and cellphones, creating a RSS feed, and more.

Version 4.2 is a free update for licensed Simon 4 customers. Changes include:

* A handy new Exclude Block filter
* New difference analysis filters
* New filter variables
* Email notifier improvements
* Preview improvements
* Several fixes of the reports feature
* Lots of security and stability improvements
* And more

Language Support:
* English, French, German, and Chinese

System Requirements:
* Intel Mac
* OS X version 10.10 or later
* 60 MB disk space

Pricing and Availability:
Dejal Simon 4.2 is available for $99.00 USD, and available as a full-featured demo. This is a free update for licensed Simon 4 users, with upgrades from version 3 available for $49.00.

Dejal Simon 4.2: http://www.dejal.com/simon/
Release Notes: http://www.dejal.com/simon/release/
Download Dejal Simon: http://www.dejal.com/download/?prod=simon&op=show&ref=pr
Screenshot: http://www.dejal.com/simon/images/full/tests-filters-activity.png
Application Icon: http://www.dejal.com/simon/images/icons/1024.png
Media Assets: http://www.dejal.com/simon/media/


Founded by David Sinclair in 1991, Dejal Systems, LLC was originally established in New Zealand, and later moved to Portland, Oregon in 2001. With a focus on the Mac, iPad and iPhone platforms, Dejal specializes in user-friendly and flexible utility software. Copyright 2016 Dejal Systems, LLC. All Rights Reserved. Dejal, the Dejal logo, and Simon are trademarks of Dejal Systems, LLC. Apple, the Apple logo, are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.


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