15. How to automatically send reboot request to my provider during downtime?
You can use our service to automatically send email to your provider during downtime, to request for a reboot or any additional investigation.
The steps explained below require you to have a Professional account:
- Login to your account.
- Go to Contacts -> Notification Template.
- Click "Add New Notification Template".
- Change "Template Name" to something intuitive, eg. "My Provider".
- You may want to change "From" to your own email so that your provider can reply directly to you.
- Change subject to something that catches attention, eg. "URGENT: Please reboot my server".
- Change message to include all details you need you supply to your provider, eg. IP address, server ID, rack ID, login, steps to restart service or server etc.
- Save the template.
- Go to Contacts -> Add New Email Contact.
- Enter your provider's emergency email.
- You may want to disable sending UP notification to your provider, ie. just send the reboot request when your website/server goes DOWN.
- You may want to set to "Notify after X consecutive errors" to prevent sending reboot request for very short downtimes (possibly small network issues).
- Select "My Provider" as the "Notification Template".
- Save the contact.