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Online Check Provider

The Online Check Provider checks by Ping or HTTP request if a server or website is online.

Configuration

  • Host
    The IP or URL of the host to check.

    Caution
    		 For a HTTP check, use a valid and complete URL, like http(s)://www.abc.com.

  • Mode
    The check mode:

    Mode Description

    Ping

    Send an ICMP Echo Request packet to the host to test the reachability.
    Ping has a timeout of 10 seconds.

    HTTP Get

    Send a HTTP Get Request to the host to test the web servers answer.

Settings

  • Check Interval
    The check interval time to test the host like 5m or 1h.
    The minimum interval time is 20s.

  • Inactive Threshold
    Sets the threshold after how many negative tries the host is marked as inactive.

  • Ignore Sleep

Query

  • Host State

    Text Numeric Description

    Init

    0

    No request send yet

    Active

    1

    Host is active

    Warning

    2

    Host did not respond but threshold not reached yet

    Inactive

    3

    Host is inactive

  • Last Check Time
    Time when the last request was sent.

    Text Numeric

    Time in the format specified by Param 1

    Milliseconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC + Timezone

    • Param 1
      The time format of the text representation. See Time Format for details.
      If empty, the default ISO format yyyy-MM-dd’T’HH:mm:ss.SSSxxx is used.

  • Status
    Get the host status:

    Text Numeric

    N/A

    0

    No request send yet (init)

    Excellent

    1

    Active, Host responded

    Good

    2

    Host considered active, but can’t be tested due to network offline condition

    Poor

    4

    Warning, Host did not respond but threshold not reached yet

    Fail

    5

    Inactive, Host did not respond