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Dejal Simon Publisher's Description:
Dejal Simon is the essential site monitoring tool for Mac OS X. It checks web pages, FTP and DNS servers, local or remote ports, and other services for changes or failures, and notifies you via e-mail, sound, speech, Twitter, HTML reports, and other means.
Add tests to Simon to track updated sites, to alert you when an important server goes down or recovers, check on Samba SMB, take periodic screenshots of the system, track posts and new comments on your or friends' blogs, check for web mail, make sure a key application is running, get notifications of updates to favorite news and entertainment websites, keep an eye on auctions, and many other uses.
Services include Web (HTTP) to check web pages (including secure ones, and supporting POST and cookies), FTP files and directory listings, DNS, Ping servers, see Twitter updates, watch a local Application, capture periodic Screenshots, watch for System Log Errors, and more. Plus, you can easily add your own services via custom port connections, AppleScripts, shell scripts, or Perl, PHP, Python, etc.
Receive notification of changes, failures, and/or recoveries via various Actions, auto-generated E-mail messages (including to your pager or cellphone), Growl notifications, Twitter updates or direct messages, iCal or Google Calendar events, an audible Sound, or customizable Speech.
HTML reports allow remote viewing of a summary and/or details of Simon monitoring. Reports can be saved to a local web server, or uploaded remotely. Customizable templates (with several examples provided) allow embedding in a web page, using a compact format suitable for viewing on PDAs and cellphones, creating a RSS feed, and more.
Trial License (up to 30 days): free
Basic License (up to 7 tests): $29.95
Standard License (up to 20 tests): $59.95
Enterprise License (unlimited tests): $195.00
Upgrade from version 1: $19.95
Update for licensed version 2 users: free
What's new in this version:
* Updated the Mount service and notifier plug-in to work around an Apple bug that sometimes causes remote volumes to not unmount properly.
* Updated the Twitter service and notifier plug-in to the latest version of the Twitter engine.
* Now bundles the latest version of the iPhone report template; previously was bundling an older version that didn't work quite right.
* Fixed an issue with the RSS Feed report template, where the pubDate value wouldn't validate in some RSS feed readers.
* Fixed a bug in the Port helper that prevented it from working properly with slow servers.
* Added more logging to the Port helper to help diagnose difficulties sending text to the remote server, that solved the above issue.
* Added a hidden preference to output debug information from the helper for the Upload to Remote Server report plug-in. It can be activated by entering "defaults write com.dejal.simon2 RemoteWebDebugMode YES" in Terminal.
* Fixed a bug with setting the TestLastRecoveryDate and TestLastRecoveryTime notifier variables that caused them to output the previous recovery date and time when a recovery occurs.
* Improved the date variables to output "never" when appropriate (instead of a date in the distant past), e.g. if outputting the failure date when the test hasn't failed yet.
* Fixed a bug in the Spanish localization that prevented the Check for Updates feature from working.
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