28.4. Setting Up Scheduled Monitoring

The monitors that you can configure using this module are most useful when they are run on schedule, so that you can be automatically notified via email if a monitored server or daemon goes down. When scheduled checking is enabled, all your monitors will be run at a periodic interval, just as they are all run when you visit the module's main page.

To set up scheduled monitoring, the steps to follow are:

1.
Click on the Scheduled Monitoring button found on the module's main page below the table of monitors. This will take you to the form shown in Figure 28.3.
Figure 28.3. The scheduled monitoring configuration form.
2.
Change the Scheduled monitoring enabled? field to Yes.
3.
The Check every field controls ...

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