Master Website component 1.5 - Installation

To install the component on a monitoring-purpose website, follow these steps :

• Log in the backend by specifying your admin username and password
• Go to Menu->Extensions->Install/Uninstall
• In the "Upload Package File" section, select the .zip file "com_jmonitoring.zip"
• Then, click on "Upload File & Install"
• Now, go to Menu->Site->Global Configuration, then click on "System"
• Make sure that the radio button "Enable Web Services" is set to "Yes"
• The component is ready to use

Distant Website plugin 1.5 - Installation

To install the plugin on a distant website using Joomla 1.5, follow these steps :

• Log in the distant site's backend by specifying your admin username and password
• Go to Menu->Extensions->Install/Uninstall
• In the "Upload Package File" section, select the .zip file "plugin_jmonitoring.zip"
• Then, click on "Upload File & Install"
• You must publish the plugin, go to Menu->Extensions->Plugin Manager
• Then, find the plugin "XML-RPC - Joomla Monitoring" and publish it
• Now, go to Menu->Site->Global Configuration, then click on "System"
• Make sure that the radio button "Enable Web Services" is set to "Yes"
• The plugin is ready to use

Distant Website plugin 1.0 - Installation

To install the plugin on a distant website using Joomla 1.0, follow these steps :

• Start a FTP session on your distant website
• Unpack "xmlrpc.zip" at the root of the website
• Log in the distant site's backend by specifying your admin username and password
• Go to Menu->Installation->Mambots
• In the "Upload Package File" section, select the .zip file "plugin_jmonitoringj10.zip"
• Then, click on "Install"
• You must publish the plugin, go to Menu->Mambots
• Then, find the plugin "XML-RPC - Joomla Monitoring" and publish it
• The plugin is ready to use

Configuration

Make sure that at least a JMonitoring component and a distant website with the plugin JMonitoring are installed before reading this chapter

Now, your JMonitoring component needs to know which website to connect. To do this, follow these steps :

• Log in the backend of your monitoring website by specifying your admin username and password
• Go to Menu->Component->JMonitoring
• Then, click on the green button "New" which allows you to define informations for a new site to control
• Now, fill the form. Here is a description of each field :
  • Name : it is the name of the distant website, it has no incidence with the connection to the website, so you can write anything
  • URL : it is the URL of you DISTANT website
  • Username : it is the username of an administrator of your DISTANT website
  • Password : it is the password of the DISTANT username specified before
  • Word to check : [Optional] JMonitoring is able to check if a word is detected on the distant homepage which means that if it is not,your distant website may have been hacked
• Click on the "Save" button
• Now, you can see your website in the list, but it is neither valid nor published
• To be able to check this website, publish it by clicking on the red icon in the "Published" column
• Then, click on the green mark button "Verify All" or put a tick beside your website and click on "Verify" which checks only the ticked sites
• Now, you can see in the information box if there were errors or notices on your website.
• If not, a green mark is now next to your webiste in the "Validity" column

Cronjob

Doing my own command

JMonitoring allows you to do an automatic check by using a cronjob or the windows planned tasks
When you configure your automatic task, you just need to launch this webpage :

• http://www.mymonitor.com/index.php?option=com_jmonitoring&task=cron

This URL triggers the verification of your websites list on the Master Website without having to register in the backend. If you write it in your navigator, nothing will be displayed : it's only a trigger.

With this URL, you will be able to launch it through a command. For example, use this command :

• firefox "http://127.0.0.1/index.php?option=com_jmonitoring&task=cron"

Using the JMonitoring Launcher for Windows

If you're using MS Windows, you might want to use the Scheduled Tasks application. To launch it automatically, you will need a silent way to trigger the verification. This is what we have done at inetis : JMonitoring Launcher.

You can download it on our forge.

Once it is downloaded, unzip it where you want and open the jmonitoring.ini file. You have to change this line to suit your Master Website's name :

• URLCall=http://127.0.0.1/index.php?option=com_jmonitoring&task=cron

Now, if you double click on the jmonitoring.exe icon, it will launch the test method. If it works fine, you can tell your Scheduled Tasks system to open jmonitoring.exe.

We recommend to use it at least 3 times a day.