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Whistle Blower 2.0 Copyright 2000, James Sentman <james@sentman.com> All Rights reserved Whistle Blower is a server monitoring utility. It can regularly connect to your servers and verify that they are responding properly and within a reasonable amount of time. If a problem is discovered Whistle Blower can alert you via e-mail, send a page via either Simple Pager or MarkSpace’s Page NOW! If you have a Master Switch from APC or a Power Key from Sophisticated Circuits Whistle Blower can actually restart a failing server without any further intervention from you. Whistle Blower also fully supports the new KickOFF! server restart device from Sophisticated Circuits. Whistle Blower can also launch Apple Scripts to help you customize your response to an outage as well as play custom sounds or speak phrases as part of the alert process. Whistle Blower can directly connect to the following server types: Web Servers LDAP Apple Share IP News DNS POP3 Filemaker Pro QuickTime Streaming First Class Radius Authentication 4D Servers (4D Open Required) SMTP FTP Telnet Hotline IMAP You can also verify a server by sending a standard Ping and connect to anything that listens for incoming TCP connections via the Generic TCP task. Whistle Blower 2.0 ©2000 by James Sentman, all rights reserved. page 1 1. Setting up a task The first time you run the program the Edit Task window will come up. At any other time you can select ‘New Task’ from the File menu. Double clicking on a task in the main window opens the Edit Task window for editing the existing task. Task Name: Every task must have a unique name that will be displayed in the Main Window display. Server Address: This is the DNS name or IP address of the server you want to connect to. By entering the IP address, or entering the DNS name and clicking on the ‘Resolve IP’ button (PPC only) you will still be able to connect to the server if your DNS server should go down. Whistle Blower 2.0 ©2000 by James Sentman, all rights reserved. page 2 1. Setting up a task Connect To Server Every: How often you want to verify the server. Task is always active: The task will check every interval. Task is active during shift: Shifts are discussed in detail later in this documentation. If you select this option and a shift from the popup dialog the task will only check while the selected shift is active. This can be u…