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Sunday, February 21, 2010

WUMP: An App to Monitor Websites Uptime

WUMP: An App to Monitor Websites UptimeWUMP (Website Uptime Monitor Program) is a must-have tool for webmasters and bloggers that can automatically monitor several websites for outages. It is free and opensource. WUMP can be easily configured to check the status of multiple websites at a set interval. If one of your website goes down due to some server issues, it automatically notifies you via email. To begin monitoring a website, you need to upload a small HTML file with a name of "wump.html" in the root folder of your website. The content format of the file should look like the following html code:


<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>WUMP</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
</BODY>
</HTML>

Run the application and go to File > Settings to add the website and to set the time interval. From the General tab, you can change the default target html if you wish to. Click on log tab to change the log path and view the log file. On Alert tab, set the email settings to use to send and receive the notification message from WUMP app. Click OK to save the settings.

Add website to monitor in WUMP

Hit Run to test and start the monitoring. Now all you have to do is relax and wait, WUMP will take care of the monitoring task and will notify you for server problem. WUMP will work on Windows 2000, XP, Vista and Windows 7.

Download WUMP via [CodePlex]


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