You’ll need a dedicated Skype account for you SecurityProbe and a PC running Windows Notification, but this is a hugely helpful feature for those with SecurityProbes in off-site locations.

So no longer are users depending on email notifications alone to let them know when servers start overheating and shutting down over the weekend, because an air conditioner failure. The real beauty of the SecurityProbe’s Notification Wizard is that you can always take your chances with e-mail up to a point, but say two hours go by and no one on the email list has acknowledged the alert. At that point you can set the notifications to escalate and start calling using the Skype feature.

This is just another one of the many ways the SecurityProbe can help with event notification. Did the power go out? Is the humidity way too high? Is air not flowing to a part of the server room with known hot spots? Don’t wait until users start complaining of application unavailability before you start investigating the problem. Let Ravica temperature and environmental monitoring solutions tip you off as soon as issues crop up.

~ Jon Mills
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