Monitoring - DNS, URLs, SMTP
To now, Versiera has provided passive monitoring services for tracking the operation and health of host devices on the hosted Versiera Internet service. Active monitoring using SNMP has been reserved for corporate environments that acquire the Versiera Enterprise appliance. Passive monitoring does have limitations and there are situations where active monitoring is necessary to ascertain whether Internet facing services are functioning correctly. Internet services such as Domain Name Service (DNS), Simple Mail Transfer Protocol Mail Service (SMTP), and Website Uniform Resource Locator (URL) need an active monitoring component to test the operation of their Internet service functionality. The testing of Fully Qualified Domain Names (FQDN), Website URLs and Mail Delivery will comprise the initial set of active monitoring functionality and will be added to the Versiera Professional hosting service. The active monitoring of these services will be restricted to registered hosts running Versiera agents.