The Email Info tab is used to configure the email notification that is sent when a Web Monitor Site Check fails or when a site that has gone down previously comes back up. Note that Web Monitor only sends email on the first failure and then again when the site comes back up.

To configure email operation set the following options:

List of email recipients
This entry field allows you to specify the email address of recipients. You can enter as many recipients as you like each on a separate line.

You can specify email formats a couple of ways:

• rstrahl@west-wind.com
  
• "Web Monitor" <rick@somedomain.com>
  

The latter sends an email with a display name that is different from the email address.

Mobile Phones and SMS Addresses:
You can use cell phone and page email addresses to send alerts to your pager and cell phone. For example, Cingular's cell service uses: 8081213211@cingularme.com for addressing a specific cell phone number. Most other cell phone and pager services have a similar mechanism to send text messages to mobile devices.

SMS Formatted Messages: Use * at the end
If you are entering an email address that will result in an SMS message, use * at the end of the email address. For example:

8081212211@cingularme.com*

The * at the end signifies that the message is to be sent to an SMS address and the message is truncated to 162 characters so that it fits the SMS format. This avoids sending multiple SMS messages if text is longer.

Sender Email Address
This is the email address of the sender that you want displayed. Examples include:

rstrahl@west-wind.com
"Web Monitor" <rick@somedomain.com>

Site Down Failure Message
This is the message that becomes the subject line in the email sent when a failure occurs. The body of the text will additionally include the URL that failed as well as the HTTP response returned if the search string was not found.

Site Back up Message
The message text that is sent when the site comes back up. It too includes the URL.

Send Test Message Button
This button lets you test your email settings by sending a test message to the recipients listed Note that

Reset Defaults
This option allows you to reset the default email information configured in the Web Monitor Configuration.

See also

Web Monitor Site Info Form | Web Monitor Configuration Form