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@nashbrydges said in PRTG Alternative...:

The Pro plan can check every minute but I think that's the shortest interval available.

As for tagging, if you send emails to your ticketing system, you could use the email attributes to create ticket metadata tags for reporting and filtering from there. Reporting from within the website is limited but since I only use the free version, that may be why it's limited.

Is the free plan still free for business use? Or does that have to be pro? )If you know of course)

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@nashbrydges said in PRTG Alternative...:

Not sure if this fits your needs 100% but certainly works for my needs. I use uptimerobot.com. They have a free and paid version but I only needed the free version. If a site does not respond to pings, it sends an email to my ticketing software to open a ticket for me to investigate. It can do more than just verify ping as well such as look for content on the page and flag if found or not found...etc.

Of course, this only works if your sites are externally available.

Thanks, i'll take a look. Seems to only be a check every 5 minutes. We check every 10 seconds, is that possible with this? It doesnt look like I can filter or tag though

Hi folks,

Any suggestions on website monitoring/software? Other than one issue PRTG works totally fine.

We check HTTP to our sites every 10 seconds. Once we have downtime, we investigate, find the cause and would like to tag within PRTG the reason for the downtime.

Sadly, I cannot see a way to do so. Do you know any software that can? I would like to be able to run reports and exclude certain events based on the tag etc.

Best,
Jim

Generally just being annoyed about a complaint made about me in the office. Other than that just ordered pizza.

Fire employee for using work resources for personal issues, and not for work.

Kidding of course.

@dustinb3403 said in Harassment Emails ?:

Sure the admin could go and blacklist the sender or domain, but that's an unrealistic approach to this. If the spammer was spamming the entire organization from private domain than certainly investigate the option.

But blocking [email protected] would be insane.

Nobody said block @gmail.com.

@jaredbusch said in Harassment Emails ?:

@jimmy9008 said in Harassment Emails ?:

@jaredbusch said in Harassment Emails ?:

@momurda said in Harassment Emails ?:

@jaredbusch I dont get your derision? Are you saying adding an email address to a block list doesnt work? Youre wrong.

I never said it could not work. But the cost to do something like this is nothing but a waste of money. This is nothing but basic logic.

There is no point in playing whack-a-mole with a malicious sender. You block, they make a new one. Rinse and repeat. This is is doing nothing but costing your company money.

Your user has 100% of the tools they need to block any email within their email client. Train them to right click and junk/block and move on.

If you want to do something legally, then you contact HR and have them contact the police per what ever company policy you have about harassment. If the user wants to press formal charges, the police have every tool they need to subpoena Google for information on the account. Additionally Google will 100% support this process.

@Jimmy9008 Is this better? I spelled out the basics that any IT professional should already know.

Actually, yes. This is a far better response. It has purpose, and actually explains what you mean, rather than pointless comments acting superior. Keep it up, growth is a good thing.

I still disagree with you though, as an admin blocking an address is still useful, just not your preferred 'less costly' approach. Every once in a while a user's has to check junk and spam, and when they do they will feel upset as they see messages from the person doing the attack, that's not good. When blacklisted the client won't even get the message to junk at all, and the user never has to go through that potentially upsetting process as it would not have been delivered.

Again, that is not how it works when you block a user. Here is O365 web interface.

I have not used the web interface but would expect it to work like the client. In the client, a user blocking mail within their client, means that sender will go to junk. They will still see future messages when theh check junk.

Blocking as an admin by blacklist will entirely stop the mail being delivered, even to junk.

@jaredbusch said in Harassment Emails ?:

@momurda said in Harassment Emails ?:

@jaredbusch I dont get your derision? Are you saying adding an email address to a block list doesnt work? Youre wrong.

I never said it could not work. But the cost to do something like this is nothing but a waste of money. This is nothing but basic logic.

There is no point in playing whack-a-mole with a malicious sender. You block, they make a new one. Rinse and repeat. This is is doing nothing but costing your company money.

Your user has 100% of the tools they need to block any email within their email client. Train them to right click and junk/block and move on.

If you want to do something legally, then you contact HR and have them contact the police per what ever company policy you have about harassment. If the user wants to press formal charges, the police have every tool they need to subpoena Google for information on the account. Additionally Google will 100% support this process.

@Jimmy9008 Is this better? I spelled out the basics that any IT professional should already know.

Actually, yes. This is a far better response. It has purpose, and actually explains what you mean, rather than pointless comments acting superior. Keep it up, growth is a good thing.

I still disagree with you though, as an admin blocking an address is still useful, just not your preferred 'less costly' approach. Every once in a while a user's has to check junk and spam, and when they do they will feel upset as they see messages from the person doing the attack, that's not good. When blacklisted the client won't even get the message to junk at all, and the user never has to go through that potentially upsetting process as it would not have been delivered.

@momurda said in Harassment Emails ?:

@jaredbusch I dont get your derision? Are you saying adding an email address to a block list doesnt work? Youre wrong.

No. He has an awful personality from what I've seen on this forum, and thinks childish comments without any actual insight or value mean a damn. He does this thing all the time.

@gjacobse said in Harassment Emails ?:

@jimmy9008 said in Harassment Emails ?:

@jaredbusch said in Harassment Emails ?:

@jimmy9008 said in Harassment Emails ?:

Can you not just block the address?

You realize, that is not how anything works when it comes to spam right?

Seems to work for us. If we add the email to the block list, no more email from that address. If we add the domain to the block list, no more email from that domain. With the spam filter on high this seems to work fine for us...

so,.. SPAM email come from @Gmail.com - you block Gmail.. you realize you just blocked millions of valid addresses which may have need to contact you / your company.

If you read what I wrote properly you'll see I have not said to block @gmail.com.

I said to block the addresses the person is using. The quote above was 'in general' where, if you will never require email from a nuisance domain, blocking the domain will work. I was saying to block the [email protected] address, which would not block millions on Gmail, but would actually block that one nuisance address. If you read what was written and understood it meant to block the gmail.com domain, please take more time processing words!

Yes, they could create another, but at least this one would be blocked. I was trying to give suggestions, rather than useless "I'm a douche and think I know more than you" remarks.