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Dejal Simon - 1.0b2

Web & FTP site monitor of changes or failures

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Version 1.0b2:	Not rated (0.0)
Selected Version:	1.0b2
Release Date:	2002-09-29
License:	Beta
Downloads (version 1.0b2):	125
Downloads (all versions):	23,096

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Product Description:

Simon is a SIte MONitor. This application checks Web and/or FTP sites that you specify at the desired frequency, and indicates when they change or go down. If you have a web site and a broadband connection, or just want to know when your favorite sites change, you won't want to be without this tool. Why rely on web-based monitoring services that check very infrequently, or charge through the roof for an adequate checking frequency, when Simon can monitor as many sites as you like, as often as you like!

What's new in this version:

Added Source and Preview windows. They each contain two text areas separated by a splitter bar, plus a toolbar. The Source window has server headers in the top area, and the HTML source in the bottom part. The Preview window contains the HTML source in the top area, and a preview of the web page in the bottom. The page may not look exactly the same as via a web browser, but is close, and hyperlinks work, etc. You can use these windows to find the appropriate text to look for with the new Smart Change Detection feature, or to quickly view a changed page without having to launch or switch to your browser.
Improved the Dock icon badge: the color of the status triangle now matches that of the most recent failure or change, and the number is the number of tests with that status. So you can now see at a glance that there are 3 sites with changes within the last day, for example. As time goes by, the color will gradually fade, or become bright red or green when a failure or change occurs.
Changed the way changes are detected. You can now specify text to look for within the HTML source or server header data. You can check for any changes in the entire file, or just a part of it. This solves the issue of banners and other regular but non-key changes making Simon report that the page changed.
Change detection can now be disabled or enabled for each test, so if you don't care about changes for a given site, it won't report them.
Added tabs to the main window, with Changes and Failures as the (current) options. Failures contains the table of failures as before, and Changes contains a table listing the changes for the selected (or all) tests. So you can now track a history of changes on the site.
Added a separate check frequency for when a site is down. So you can, for example, check the site every ten minutes when it is up, but when it has a failure, check every minute until it is back up again.
Added tables for specifying notifiers for each test. You will be able to set up notifiers once, then choose which ones to use for each test. This feature is not completed in this beta release, but the groundwork has been laid.
The Up Time is now expressed with two decimal places, so you can see if your site is up 99.99% or 99.95% of the time instead of just 99%.
Added guide buttons to many windows. When clicked, they will open the Simon User Guide in your web browser directly to the section discussing the window.
Added tool tips to all windows.
Added preferences to control whether to display each of the date columns in the tests table using absolute or relative dates. Defaults to relative.
Added a preference to control what happens when you double-click on a line in the tests table. The options are: preview the site, view the page source, visit the site, check the site, and alter the test configuration. The default is to preview the site.
Added a confirmation sheet when quitting, to avoid accidentally quitting Simon. A checkbox allows you to tell it not to appear again, plus whether or not it appears can be controlled via a preference.
Plus several other improvements and fixes; see the release notes for details.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.3
Mac OS X 10.2
Mac OS X 10.1

Additional Requirements:

Mac OS X 10.1 or higher

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Doesn't work with facebook - Version: 2.5, 2/21/2009 01:38AM PST

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Yannis1962

It looks like a nice piece of software.

I tried it with facebook and it reported a change everytime it connected. There is no doubt that if I analyze the structure of the facebook page and find exactly the places where a change is of interest to me, then I may be able to configure it. But it would be nice if Dejal Simon could do it automatically: what I'm interested in are the things you don't get notified by facebook:
� somebody writes on the wall of a group of your choice
� there are new members in a group of your choice
The developer told me there will be a plug-in for facebook, I hope it will do this.

Excellent replacement for Whistleblower - Version: 2.4.1, 6/23/2008 12:42PM PST

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afterhours

I waited years for James Sentman to get around to updating Whistleblower for the newer APC equipment. Sadly, that hasn't happened (yet).

But on the bright side, it forced me to find a modern solution, and with Simon, I've got all the control over my alerts and AP7900 that I need. Server monitoring is back, and with Simon, I feel unleashed from the server room again. The developer has been open and responsive to questions about the product and feature enhancements. Once I outgrow my $60 license, it'll be a no-brainer to move up to Enterprise.

Fantastic software - Version: 2.2.1, 2/19/2007 09:20PM PST

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CNG2

I wasn't expecting too much when I started using Simon; I had used various open source monitoring packages and figured Simon was just going to be a nice GUI to do basically the same thing. I WAS WRONG. Simon is full of nice touches and is a very polished package. The flexibility in setting up a variety of tests and customising the different notifications is simply amazing. And it is so easy to configure. The developer is also very helpful and responsive. This is by far the best software I have purchased this year (& maybe will be all year).

But more to the point, it has already saved me money by giving me a notification about a misbehaving server before the problem became a serious issue.