Configuring Monitors | Dyn Help Center

Monitors for Traffic Director identify objects on your network to be watched for potential failure. If a failure occurs, the monitor a) notifies the designated email address with either a summary or detailed account of the failure, and/or b) updates the Traffic Director to mark associated records as ineligible for DNS responses.

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In order for monitoring to occur on your account, please make sure that the IP addresses included here (https://manage.dynect.net/help/agents.html) can reach all your network endpoints. The web page requires you to log on to Dyn’s Managed DNS.

NOTE: If all fields are left at default for the HTTP, HTTPS, SMTP, or TCP protocols, the measured system will display as ‘healthy’ or ‘online’ if it returns any return code. Adding contents to the Path field will require a 200 level return code for the measured system to display as ‘healthy’ or ‘online’.

Configure the Monitor

1. Select Traffic Director from the Add-Ons menu.
2. Find the Traffic Director service to where the Monitor will be added and click the Service Name.
3. The open the Traffic Director view. Find the Monitors section of the Traffic Director Service.
4. Click the expand button next to Monitors to expand the monitor.
5. Click inside the Monitor window. Select the pencil icon, which will appear on the far right, to edit the Monitor Configuration.
6. Use the following to complete or edit the Monitor fields: Click for More Info Protocol: Select one of the 5 protocols to use for monitoring the Traffic Director Service. Valid values: HTTP HTTPS PING SMTP TCP Label: The name for this monitor. Probe Interval: The wait time between tests of the service to determine if it is still responding. Default is 10 minutes.Retries: The number of times the monitor will retry the service if it does not receive a response on the first request. Default is 0 retries. Retries occur in 10 second intervals.Port: The port number the monitor will use to make the request. Default ports for the protocols are 80 (HTTP), 443 (HTTPS), and 25 (SMTP) Not used for PING protocol. Retries: The number of times a probe attempts to reconnect to the endpoint after registering a failure. Port: The port of the endpoint being used for monitoring. Path: Designate a path other than the root which will be monitored. Paths should be supplied as a relative path to the root ‘/’ directory of the website. Not used for PING, SMTP, or TCP protocols. Host: Hostname the monitor will use to request the status of the service. Not used for PING, SMTP, or TCP protocols. Header: HTTP/HTTPS header the monitor will use to request the status of the service. Not used for PING, SMTP, or TCP protocols. See Configuring Monitor Headers for more information on using custom headers and macros in your endpoint monitoring. Expected Data: Designate the data expected in the protocol response while monitoring the host in the pool. Maximum length: 255 bytes. Exceeding the maximum size will result in an ‘Invalid_Data’ error at run time with the message ‘Too long’. Field is case-sensitive. Exact string match required to return ‘up’ status. Not used for PING, or TCP protocols. Monitor Notifiers: Select an existing notifier or create a new notifier for this monitor. See Managing Notifications and Understanding Notifications for more information about creating a new notifier.
These two links are at the bottom of the Monitor fields: Probe Results: This links to the log file for probe results. For more information see Probe Results. Location Preferences: This links to the monitor location setup. For more information see Monitor Location Preferences.
7. Optional: You can click the Apply to unmonitored records checkbox to attach this monitor to any unmonitored A, AAAA, or CNAME records in your Response Pools. You can also individually attach the monitor to any record in your Response Pools at a later time.
8. Select Save Monitor to complete the monitor configuration or Cancel to clear the form.
9. Once the Monitor is saved, Publish the changes or Revert to the state prior to making your changes.

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