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Maintenance 3 June 2011

At the moment, we are busy with a maintenance on our servers.

We will move 2 servers to a new datacenter.

This maintenance will affect following servers and services:

  • Accessibility of main website/blog
  • Status pages, history center, logbook
  • API & Mobile Applications
  • PulseCheck1 server
  • Verification1 server

No downtime is expected but we expect a possible data-loss for the tests performed between 03/06/2011 15:30 CEST and 03/06/2011 16:30 CEST.

Important note:
The IP of the verification server will change. If you are using a firewall, please update the IP. You can find the list of IP addresses at the config panel at the help page.
If you exclude our servers from your tracking systems, please change this IP to the new IP.

We will also move the PulseCheck1 server. You will not need to make any changes yourself.

Update: The maintenance is completed.

More information at info@semonto.com

Mobile website

We are happy to announce a new mobile website for Semonto.

This website can be used on any smartphone to check the status of your servers. Just visit http://m.semonto.com in any browser and login with your credentials.

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Announcement: PulseCheck

We are happy to announce PulseCheck!

PulseCheck is like a pacemaker for your server.

Your server need to send out a pulse to Semonto, periodically, simply by calling a URL. When Semonto didn’t receive a pulse on time, Semonto will alert you, just like a pacemaker would do.

PulseCheck is useful to monitor periodical and background jobs, but also for servers running behind a firewall.

You can find more information about this feature at the help-page in the configpanel.

Announcement: TestCenter3

photo.PNGWe are happy to announce a new TestCenter for Semonto.

A TestCenter is a server that keeps an eye on your server, perform the requested tests and alerts you when your server is having any problems.

At the moment, we have 2 TestCenters, located in different countries.

TestCenter1 is located in The Netherlands, TestCenter2 in the UK (ByFleet). The new TestCenter, with the name TestCenter3 is located in the USA, to be more precise in Pennsylvania.

If your servers are located in the USA, it can be useful to select TestCenter3 as test-server. You can do this in the settings of the groups.

If you want more information, you can contact us at info@semonto.com

Apple Push Notification system

photo.PNGWe got some exciting news for iPhone and iPad users. In the near future, we will offer the possibility to be alerted through Apple Push Notifications, instead of SMS messages.

Apple Push Notifications are free and fast, but not 100% reliable. If you want to be sure to be notified by Semonto, we recommend to use SMS messages.

The Apple Push Notification option will be available as soon as our newest update of the ‘Semonto for iPhone’ client will be approved by Apple.

Semonto and multiple time zones

Today, we have updated our Semonto software with one huge feature-request: support for multiple time zones.

When you login at the config panel, you will be able to set the correct time zone for your account. All pages for your hosts and servers will be shown in this time zone.

We are very happy this feature is finally available in Semonto.
Be sure to select your correct time zone!

We have also pushed an update of Semonto for iPhone to Apple for review with multiple timezone support.

For more information or suggestions, don’t hesitate to contact us.

[Update] Semonto for iPhone is approved and now available in the iTunes Store

New default test: ‘diskspace usage’

We added a new default test to the Semonto config panel.

You are now able to measure the disk usage of your servers.
Simply update the Semonto files on your servers, update the config files and enable the test on Semonto.

More information at the config panel or at info@semonto.com

Update for Semonto for iPhone and Mac


We have released an update for our Semonto clients for iPhone and Mac.

We have fixed some small issues and improved the performances.

You can find the update for the Mac version in the Mac App Store here. The iPhone version is available at the iTunes Store.

TestCenter1 false-alerts

We had a server issue with TestCenter1, one of our test-servers. Between 2:00am and 10:00am, we had some network issues and TestCenter1 was sending out false-alerts.

We have solved the issue at 10:00am and we are investigating the issue.

Our excuses for the false-alerts. Lost SMS-credits will be added to your account today.

Update:
We got some news about the false-alerts. There was a double DDOS-attack at the network where TestCenter1 is located.

Maintenance main-server

We have finished a maintenance on our public server of Semonto.com, due this maintenance, our website was offline for about 1 hour.

At the moment, everything should be back online :)

During last maintenance, we doubled our harddisk-space and our memory (RAM)! We are prepared for 2011!

O, did you know, you can test our configpanel using ‘demo’ as password and usename?