Frequently asked questions

What is an application?

In our terminology, an application is an element that being monitored. This may be a URL, an email server, a DNS server or even a mySql database.

For example, if you wish to monitor your website, the application will be the URL of the page to be checked. On the internetVista® platform, you then define an HTTP application.

internetVista® supports monitoring of the major server types found on the Internet:

• your servers (PING)
• your web servers (HTTP)
• your secured web servers (HTTPS)
• your database servers (MySQL)
• your mail servers (SMTP, IMAP and POP)
• your newsgroup servers (NNTP)
• your file servers (FTP)
• your domain name servers (DNS)
• your services based directly on TCP and UDP
• your web scenarios, e.g. a procurement procedure