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Publishing Monitoring Results using Published Groups and IFRAMEs

Using IFRAMEs and the "Publish Group" feature of IPCheck Server Monitor you can publish the current monitoring status of your network on any webpage.

If you are monitoring your network using IPCheck Server Monitor it is a good idea to make the current network status available to the other employees etc. in your company.

There are two options to review the current network monitoring status:

  • Authenticated Access: Logging into the web interface using your account name and password
  • Public Access: Viewing a "published group" without the need to enter a password

For authenticated access you would have to hand out the username and password to all employees and they would then be able to change monitoring settings. Usually this is not a good idea. We strongly recommend to make the status publicly accessible.

How to Publish a Group:

To make a group's status publicly available

  • Open the IPCheck Server Monitor web interface
  • Log into your account
  • For the group you want to publish click on the Edit Group icon
  • Enable Publish Group
  • Note down the Public URL (this is the URL where the group's data can be accessed publicly - we need the URL later)
  • Click OK

Paste the public URL into a browser and test it.

How To Include This Information In Your Intranet or Website:

Again there are two options:

  • Linking to the public URL from your Intranet or Website: This way the visitor can access the information, but only one group at a time and without your website's look and feel
  • Showing the public URLs in IFRAMEs on a page of your website or Intranet: This gives you the possibility to have the monitoring data on a webpage in your look and feel and you can even show the status of several groups on one web page

What you need to do is to create a page in your Intranet or website which must include an IFRAME HTML tag. This creates a frame inside your webpage which will then show the monitoring status.

See below for the HTML code for a sample webpage. Replace the PUBLIC GROUP URL with your URLs and you are done!

Applies to: Version 4 or later
Last Edited: 2005/12/12

Sample Code

<html>
<head>
<title>Intranet Network Status </title>
</head>
<body marginheight="0" marginwidth="0">
<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=600 border=2>
<TR>
<TD>
<H2>Header 1</H2></TD>
<TD>
<H2>Header 2</H2></TD>
<TD>
<H2>Header 3</H2></TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD><IFRAME name="Frame1" align=center hspace=2 vspace=2 src="PUBLIC GROUP URL 1" frameBorder=0 width=200 height=800></IFRAME></TD>
<TD><IFRAME name="Frame2" align=center hspace=2 vspace=2 src="PUBLIC GROUP URL 2" frameBorder=0 width=200 height=800></IFRAME></TD>
<TD><IFRAME name="Frame3" align=center hspace=2 vspace=2 src="PUBLIC GROUP URL 3" frameBorder=0 width=200 height=800></IFRAME></TD>
</tr></table>
</body> 
</html>

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