Monitor a website or public IP Address from N-able N-central

Last Modified

Tue Nov 14 21:51 GMT 2017

Description

You can monitor a specific website or IP address by manually adding it in the All Devices View.
This will allow you to use your Probe or your N-able N-central server to monitor the IP Address for connectivity.

Environment

• N-able N-central all supported versions

Solution

1. Browse to the Customer Level(green level)
2. Click on Views> All Devices> Add(upper left hand side)
3. Click on More Options
4. Under "Manually Create a Device that Represents an External Website or IP Address", click on Add Device
5. Enter a Name and the Network Address of the public facing host
6. This will by default, monitor the connectivity of the device via PING
7. You can change the monitoring device to the Probe(if you want to monitor the host internally) or you can use you N-able N-central server (if you want to monitor the host externally)