Net Whacker

Net Whacker est à la fois une boîte à outils de mise en réseau et un serveur, l'outil de surveillance des URL.

Net Whacker is both a networking toolbox and a server, URL monitoring tool. Basically this tool allows you to quickly setup a server testing schedule to perform tests on a server or URL and get notifications based on your preset test criteria.

There is a widget to show the latest result of your tests.

Common uses will be to get alerts when

- A server is uncontactable or has passed a timeout threshold via Ping

- A web page is unreachable or is not showing a predictable string via HTTP GET

- A URL content (can be HTML, image or any binary content) has changed

- A URL content has taken too long to load

- A site you are interested in has refreshed its content

- Connection cannot be established to a server TCP port

Net Whacker contains the following network tools

- Ping

- TCP Socket connectivity

- HTTP Head

- HTTP GET

- Whois

- DNS Lookup

- Device Network Information

What can you do with this tool ?

1) Whois

- Perform quick lookups on who owns a domain name

- Allows entry of custom whois servers

2) DNS Lookup

- Perform query to DNS for A, AAAA, CNAME, NS, MX, TXT, SOA records for a domain name

3) Scheduled server testing

- Perform scheduled testing with Ping, TCP Sockets, HTTP HEAD, HTTP GET

- Configure test run duration (short term to indefinite)

- Configure how often test should run (every minute, every hour, every 7 days etc)

- Configure test criteria such as timeout threshold and string to match for HTTP GET

- Set visual or sound alerts when test criteria is not met

4) URL monitoring

- Perform scheduled monitoring on a URL

- Alerts when a URL content has changed. URL not restricted to HTML pages it can be also binary such as images, pdf files etc

- Shows URL loading time

- Configure test run duration (short term to indefinite)

- Configure how often test should run (every minute, every hour, every 7 days etc)

- Configure test criteria

- Test timeout threshold

- URL load time

- Set visual or sound alerts when test criteria are not met

5) Data Friendly Settings

- Set to test only when WIFI is available

- Set data size limit for each test

6) Others

- Event logs showing a history of test results and alerts

- Export test results

- View device network information such as IP address, Wifi SSID etc