When setting up spoken alerts, the volume slider will not retain my preference. It can keep the maxxed out loudest setting between edits, but any other position (softened to 3/4, 1/2, 1/3) always results in the volume slider moved to off (far left).

I don't think this is the behavior to be expected, and it makes for a VERY quiet alert :) or very LOUD (the volume control in Simon bypasses the system sound volume setting in Tiger 10.4.11 on a powerpc).

Thoughts?

Is there a way of setting up groups of notifiers? I have two sets of machines: some need to have a collection of six notifiers (email, sound, log for up or down states) and some only use 4 notifiers. As far as I can see, there is no way to create groupings of notifiers for easy addition to the individual tests. I guess if I had been smart about this, I could have simply created a template for each kind of test, then duplicated it.

But I wasn't that smart...

Is there any way to change User Agent globally or even better if it can be changed per Test basis?

How about JavaScript, cookies or Java?

Is there an easy way to test for the health of the Simon app, to ensure that it's not crashed, quit accidentally or hung?

Some apps (like Keep It Up) have HTTP interfaces that display a status or other information, some have other open ports that return certain text that can be checked for....is there something similar in Simon that I can use to be sure that the app is open, is working properly and is not hung?

Thanks!

I'm trying to monitor an all-Flash http:// site, and each check is lasting for 0 seconds! So I'm assuming that 0 seconds means that the checking isn't working. Is this because the site is all flash? If so, is there anything I can do about it? Thanks so much; I appreciate any help!

I think I found a bug in the Service Result/Custom Error section.

If you accidentally rename a line's Customer Error Description to "Success" and you already have one called "Success", you then can no longer change the Custom Error Description or even delete the line. You're stuck with two "Success" lines.

It looks like the code that disallows the deleting/changing of "Success" should allow it, as long as there will be at least one "Success" line remaining after the delete/change.

I'm looking for a way to be notified on the absence of a certain line in a log file, on a continuing basis.

A bit of background: we have a few VIPs with mobile devices that are supposed to sync with their calendars via SyncML, but sometimes the sync process on the device silently gets stuck and stop syncing (the developer can't track it down). Of course the phone and other apps continue to work fine, so the user is clueless until they miss an appointment or something, and then they're already angry.

I'd like to get more proactive on this by monitoring the sync server log to ensure that my VIP users are syncing properly. So if I have a user called "JohnD", Simon would check the log to ensure that JohnD has logged in at least once over the previous 2 or 3 hours (the sync is supposed to happen every hour).

I could just do a tail on the log for the number of lines that would normally approximate the last few hours and grep the login names, but that would break if anything increased the number of log lines (temporarily turning up the logging detail, adding more users that sync, etc). Similarly, if logging detail was decreased, we'd get a false negative because older login lines from many hours or days ago might show up. I wondered if there was a fancier way to actually check the log over the last few hours based on the current date and time and the timestamps in the log.

A login line in the log looks like this:

2008/02/27 09:52:47 [S fd60biag--cq--vfx156] User John DeMillion (johnd) logged in.

Any hints?

Is there a way to have Simon log to a file?

A daily log file per service would be perfect.

I'm using Simon 2.3.5 on Mac OS X 10.4.11.

Thanks,
Erik.

PS sorry about the double posts. the forum was dumping me to a reply window after posting the message, and I just assumed it was for a new message.

Sorry if this is not the right place, didn't see a support option in the Simon menu.

The licenses window has the checkboxes overlaid with the text, so that it is not usable.

Is there a way to set the precision of the duration displayed in the monitor?

I would like it down the 100ths of a second.

Durations are now showing as 0 secs, and I'm presuming that is because they are rounded down to the nearest second.