{"id":242,"date":"2023-05-23T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dejal.com\/blog\/?p=242"},"modified":"2023-05-01T11:56:31","modified_gmt":"2023-05-01T18:56:31","slug":"simon-extras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dejal.com\/blog\/simon-extras\/","title":{"rendered":"Simon extras"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dejal Simon<\/a> is a powerful and flexible website & server monitoring tool. One of the reasons it is so flexible is that in addition to the many built-in services, filters, notifiers & reports, you can extend it by using or writing custom scripts (or port sessions).<\/p>\n

Simon comes bundled with many examples of such scripts; check out the Services, Filters & Notifiers lists and look for the items with a \u201cScript\u201d subtitle. You can inspect and edit those to customize them to suit your needs, or use them as inspiration for your own.<\/p>\n

As an additional resource, the Simon site has an Extras<\/a> page, which lists several more scripts that customers have contributed over the years. Some of which have later been bundled with the app, but some are only available there.<\/p>\n

If you create or modify a script that others might find useful, please share it! Send me an email<\/a> with the script attached, along with a description, and I\u2019ll be happy to add it to the Simon Extras<\/a> page.<\/p>\n

The Simon Extras<\/a> page is organized by feature kind: Service Scripts<\/b>, Filter Scripts<\/b>, Notifier Scripts<\/b>, Report Templates<\/b>, and Other Goodies<\/b> (including a way to add multiple tests, an extended siren sound, and a script to monitor a FTP site). There\u2019s also info for developers on writing custom plugins.<\/p>\n

Installing scripts is easy:<\/p>\n

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Decompress the downloaded archive, if you browser didn\u2019t do it for you;<\/li>\n
Launch Simon if not already running;<\/li>\n
Go to the Services<\/b> or Notifiers<\/b> list, as appropriate;<\/li>\n
Click the New<\/b> toolbar button (or via the File<\/b> menu);<\/li>\n
Choose the Service Kind<\/b> (or Notifier Kind) button to show the service (or notifier) page.<\/li>\n
Choose the Script<\/b> service\/notifier kind, if not selected by default.<\/li>\n
Click the Open Script\u2026<\/b> button and choose the script file.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
The script is copied into Simon, so there\u2019s no need to keep the downloaded file around after loading it.<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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