Author Archives: Tyler

How does the auto-discovery of underlying applications work?

Applications will be auto discovered once a Windows or Linux agent is installed in your server (Admin > Server Monitor > Settings). Enabling this option in Settings is a global action across the entire account. Alternative to this is the manual discovery of applications for each server monitor added. Use Case: A user has 1 […]

Connect your database to your website

Most scripts need to know four things about your database: the database name, database username, password, and hostname. The database name always has the following form: ControlPanelUsername_DatabaseName, where ControlPanelUsername is the username you use to access the control panel. The DatabaseName is the name you have given to the database from the MySQL database menu. […]

How secure is server monitoring?

The Servermeister.com monitoring agent poses no threat to the security of your server. The Servermeister.com server monitoring agent uses only one-way HTTPS connection which is firewall friendly and you do not normally need to open up any new ports to the outside in your firewall. More over the communication happens over HTTPS and the data […]

Check TCP Port 80 (http / https) with telnet

HTTP Protocol Basics HTTP is a plaintext protocol. Thereby, simulating a browser and testing access through port 80 using the telnet command becomes simple. The following steps are necessary for this from a Linux command line: Execute telnet SERVERNAME 80. Thereby, telnet will connect to the server named SERVERNAME through port 80. If the establishment […]

How do I set up my email address via Outlook 2010/2013?

Here’s how to manually set up Microsoft Outlook 2013 to automatically fetch email from your domain name. Open Outlook Go to ‘File’ and click on ‘Info’ Click on ‘Add account’ At the bottom, choose ‘Manually configure server settings or additional server types’ Click on ‘Next’ Choose ‘POP or IMAP’ (if Outlook 2010 choose ‘Internet e-mail’) […]