There are many reasons to set up customized alerts from WebSitePulse, such as:

• You are parsing the content of the alerts with another notification and/or monitoring tool.
• You need specific data in the alerts (last resolved IP, the first 100 bytes of the response we received from your server, etc.).
• You only want to receive 1 SMS notification (usually up to 160 characters per message)  when we detect a failure.

How to Customize Alerts

Customizing alerts contents is an easy and straight forward process that you can do in less than 5 minutes. Here’s how:

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How come you got involved in IT?

I always enjoyed working with computers when I was in school and so it seemed a natural area to study at the university. I enjoyed studying database design so once I completed my BSC in 2005, I started looking for a database developer position.

A major vulnerability in OpenSSL software was announced late yesterday, impacting all servers having the Heartbeat TLS extension enabled with OpenSSL versions states above.

The "heartbleed" vulnerability, has been already recorded as CVE-2014-0160. Further details can be found at heartbleed.com and www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20140407.txt.

The bug has already scared a lot of system administrators and site owners, and the one that we've done on WebSitePulse was to release a test against this vulnerability.

So, if you want to check whether your secure server is affected or not, please visit: www.websitepulse.com/heartbeat.php

Not long after releasing our latest and most sophisticated monitoring level – the In-Browser Application Monitoring, we are happy to announce that it is now available as a free test tool.

So here’s a brief description of what the In-Browser level of monitoring is all about: