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I am pleased to announce the immediate availability of version 3.2.0.

Click here to download the latest version.

Changelog:

• Added CSRF protection.
• Added popular ports to server page.
• Authentication for website checks.
• Proxy settings for website checks.
• Added support for Nexmo SMS gateway.
• Added support for FreeVoipDeal SMS gateway (http://www.freevoipdeal.com).
• Added Swedish translation.
• Added Estonian translation.
• Added Finnish translation.
• Added Persian translation.
• Added Slovenian language.
• Updated Spanish translation.
• Increased server ip char limit to 500.... read more

I am pleased to announce the immediate availability of version 3.1.1.

Click here to download the latest version.

Changelog:

• Added Czech translation.
• Added Polish translation.
• Added Turkish translation.
• Updated 6 existing translations.
• Added SSL/TLS option for SMTP.
• Allow URL and timeout to be passed as argument to the cronjob.
• Fixed uptime percentage above 100%.... read more

As you probably know, the easiest way to implement automatic monitoring of your services is by creating a periodic job on your system. On Linux-based machines this is quite easy, and lots of hosting panels provide web-based configuration tools. But on Windows, setting up a cron job can be a real pain. One user of PHP Server Monitor, Robert Inzano, has taken the time to put together a step by step tutorial on how to set up cronjobs on Windows. Please see attached PDF file for the complete walk-through.... read more

I am pleased to announce the immediate availability of version 3.1.0.

Click here to download the latest version.

Changelog:

• Support for Pushover.net notifications.
• Uptime percentage per server for the last week.
• Test mode for email, SMS and Pushover settings.
• Different design styles on status page (list, table).
• Custom time-out setting per server.
• Log and archive retention period.
• Added Danish and Russian translations.
• Added support for SMSGlobal and SMSit gateways.

Full changelog available here.

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Hi,

A new minor release (v3.1) is coming up soon with a couple of amazing features (e.g. Pushover.net support), and I am looking for some assistance updating the translations. So far, PHP Server Monitor has been translated into 12 languages (from 3.1 this will also include Russian and Danish), but some languages need to be reviewed and updated. If you have some spare time and are fluent in one of these exotic languages, please consider donating a minute of your time to help me ship v3.1 with up-to-date translations. If your language is not on the list, new languages are also very much welcome.... read more

The project uses a couple of open source libraries such as PHPMailer. To avoid having to include them in the repository, we have just switched to Composer to install them.

For regular releases this will not make a difference, all dependencies will be included in the zip and tar files so no extra action is required. If you are downloading the source from GitHub, however, you will need to install these dependencies yourself. To do that, you can run the following command from the command line after downloading the source:... read more

I am pleased to announce the immediate availability of version 3.0.1.

Click here to download the latest version.

Changelog:

• Minimum PHP version is PHP 5.3.7 (not PHP 5.3.0).
• Server order on users page now matches the order on servers page.
• Warning threshold ignored for notification trigger.
• Added Chinese translation.
• Added Italian translation.
• Added Spanish translation.
• Sphinx is now used for documentation .... read more

Documentation has now been set up using the wonderful Read the Docs service and will be build and updated automatically from the source code.

The documentation is available at http://docs.phpservermonitor.org.
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After 2 months of hard work, I am pleased to announce the immediate availability of version 3.0.0, featuring user authentication and history graphs for your servers.

Click here to download the latest version.

Changelog:

• Added user login system with 2 user levels (administrator and regular user).
• Added history graphs of server uptime and latency.
• Added warning threshold option (set number of failed checks before server goes offline).
• Added SMTP support.
• Adding Bulgarian language file.
• Status page is now default homepage.
• Date and time formats are taken from language file and localized per language.
• When checking a website, the updater will now follow 302 Location headers.
• String/pattern search on websites did not work for websites with compression turned on.
• Improved mobile compatibility.... read more

Last month we have reached a new milestone by hitting more than 1000 downloads in a single month on Sourceforge. This is pretty awesome. This weekend we will celebrate that with the release of a new version, which will introduce major features such as user authentication and history graphs, thanks to several people who have helped out to make this happen.... read more

Hi guys,

So we are not too far away from publishing a new release, which is, considering the past (averaging 1 release every 3 years), quite an accomplishment. The next release brings several new features and bug fixes, including a built-in authentication system (finally) and SMTP support. Along with that, lots of internal refactoring (think PDO, new module structure, and an upgraded mailer library).... read more

And again, it has been a while since the last release. But at last, a new update is now available for download. The 2.1.0 release of PHP Server Monitor contains several updates contributed by the open source community, for which a big thanks to everyone (see the README file for credits). One of the contributions is a brand new layout using Twitter Bootstrap to give the monitor a fresh look.

Click here to download the latest version.... read more

And again, it has been a while since the last release. But at last, a new update is now available for download. The 2.1.0 release of PHP Server Monitor contains several updates contributed by the open source community, for which a big thanks to everyone (see the README file for credits). One of the contributions is a brand new layout using Twitter Bootstrap to give the monitor a fresh look.

An overview of the changes:
- Merged PHP Server Monitor Plus project (the Twitter Bootstrap layout).
- In addition to HTTP status code check, regular expression search has been added to check for certain content on a website.
- New SMS providers: Mosms and Textmarketer.
- New languages: Korean, Portuguese / Brazilian.
- Large status page.
- Cronjob will be prevented from running multiple times (with a 10 minutes timeout).
- New install module.... read more

I have removed the code from the Sourceforge-hosted CVS and moved it to GitHub instead. The code can be found at https://github.com/dopeh/phpservermon. If you want to contribute, feel free to clone the project and send me a pull request with your changes.
Releases will still be published here at Sourceforge.

It's been a while since the last release, but finally the new version has arrived: PHP Server Monitor 2.0 has been released.

PHP Server Monitor is a script that checks whether the servers on your list are up
and running on the selected ports.

It comes with a web based user interface where you can add and remove servers or websites from the MySQL database,
and you can manage users for each server with a mobile number and email address.
With version 2.0 comes the support for websites as well. On the "Add server" page, you can choose
whether it's a "service" or a "website":... read more

A minor update for PHP Server Monitor: version 2.0.1 has been released.

It incorporates several minor updates, some of which have been in CVS for a while now. Other issues include small features that have been requested in the tracker or by email.
The changelog of the new version:
- adding german language file (thanks to Brunbaur Herbert)
- adding french language file (thanks to David Ribeiro)
- servers page: auto refresh can be configured at the config page
- servers page: if the server is a website, the "Domain/Ip" field will be a link to the website
- new text message gateway: Clickatell.com (thanks to Simon)
- if cURL is not installed, the install.php script will throw an error
- HTTP status codes 5xx will also be treated as error
- classes/sm/smUpdaterStatus.class.php: the curl option CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST has been changed to CURLOPT_NOBODY.... read more

A minor update for PHP Server Monitor: version 2.0.1 has been released.

It incorporates several minor updates, some of which have been in CVS for a while now. Other issues include small features that have been requested in the tracker or by email.

The changelog of the new version:
- adding german language file (thanks to Brunbaur Herbert)
- adding french language file (thanks to David Ribeiro)
- servers page: auto refresh can be configured at the config page
- servers page: if the server is a website, the "Domain/Ip" field will be a link to the website
- new text message gateway: Clickatell.com (thanks to Simon)
- if cURL is not installed, the install.php script will throw an error
- HTTP status codes 5xx will also be treated as error
- classes/sm/smUpdaterStatus.class.php: the curl option CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST has been changed to CURLOPT_NOBODY... read more

CVS has been re-enabled for this project. Yesterday I imported the latest version, v2.0.0, as module "phpservermon-2" into the sourceforge repository. In the next few weeks I'll try to release a new version with some new features, so keep an eye on the CVS for the latest updates.

For now, I have added 2 minor changes:
- curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, 'HEAD'); has been replaced by curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_NOBODY, true); in classes/sm/smUpdaterStatus.class.php
- German language is available

It's been a while since the last release, but finally the new version has arrived: PHP Server Monitor 2.0 has been released

PHP Server Monitor is a script that checks whether the servers on your list are up
and running on the selected ports.
It comes with a web based user interface where you can add and remove servers or websites from the MySQL database,
and you can manage users for each server with a mobile number and email address.... read more

I'm working on a new version of the PHP Server monitor. It's a tool that keeps an eye on your servers and notifies you by email or text message if one goes down. The new release is going to have a lot more features and it'd be nice to give it a bit of a look. I have no problem with css and html, but when it comes to photoshop and creativity I'm just not the right person.

Next week I'll be on holiday for a month, after that, in August, I'm planning to release the new version.... read more

A minor update of the server monitor has been released.

This release fixes a bug in the log display. In the previous version it ordered the entries by the formatted date & time, rather than using the raw data, which resulted in a wrong list of log entries.

No database changes have been made, the only 2 updated files are "log.php", and "tpl/log.tpl.html".

Thanks to everyone for using server monitor. Bug reports and feature requests are most welcome.... read more

The first version of the PHP Server Monitor has just been released. Please see the readme file in docs/readme for more information about this release and installation notes.

I'd appreciate any feedback, either in the forums or per mail.