News

August 2, 2011

Backup monitoring improvement

Better email parsing. Added pagination to manage hundreds of backups.

April 14, 2011

New Mail guard

Mail guard can handle any type of status notification by email sent at regular interval. If the expected pattern is not found or if no email is received for a long period, the service status switch to the failed state.

Feb 28, 2011

Backup graphs improvement

New graph are a lot more pleasant and easy to read. If in the past they were static, now they can be use as the base to start investigations.

Jan 3, 2011

Self Monitoring

MagiKmon is monitoring itself. An agent simulates common failures and check if the appropriate alerts have been raised in time. This feature was used for long time on the development platform to quickly validate new modifications and has been ported to the production system. A third system, completely independent monitor the self monitoring system for a maximum of reliability.

November 26, 2010

New SMTP features: DNS Block List and anti-virus testing

MagiKmon is now able to warn you if your mail server is listed into a Black List. It can also test if your anti-virus mail gateway is working.

November 8, 2010

New Ping monitoring

The new Ping service monitoring allow to test the network connectivity at the lowest level.

November 4, 2010

VMWare ESX(i) hardware monitoring

The new Guard service monitoring allow to integrate data sent by the new MKSBackup module esxmon. This module collect data about VMware ESX(i) hardware and sent them to the Guard service. This one maintains the status and keep the last received report.

August 10, 2010

Monitor your backup for free.

MagiKmon allow SoHo to monitor their backup for free.
MagiKmon can read email reports from popular backup software and generate nice reports and graphs. When the backup fails for too long or the mail report is missing, MagiKmon generate an alert to a custom email address.
First check if your backup sofware is supported, then read our Getting started to start. Don't forget to register first.

August 9, 2010

First announcement.

The service is available for testing.