About SiUX
SiUX is network-distributed system intended for proactive
monitoring of different internet services.
SiUX is complex, modular and scalable system intended from monitoring of
accessibility and qualitative aspects of services based on IP technology,
in short internet services.
What SiUX offers
There are two main positions SiUX can act in
The first one is control of the servers and services in local network of the client or hosting ISP. In this position SiUX controls if servers and services are running fine locally. This use of SiUX answers the first main question: "Are my servers and applications running fine?"
Second position that SiUX can act in is monitoring of accessibility of all the services from different places of the internet. This check can simulate the way how internet users access the services and measure the qualitative parameters of the services. This use of SiUX answers the second question "How are my services accessible to my users?"
How SiUX monitors my services
SiUX can be hosted directly in the local network of the hoster or provider and observe the functionality of all the services locally, if the applications answer to requests and servers are accessible. This monitoring controls the stability and quality of the service because it is not affected by the internet traffic.
Together with this way of control can SiUX use its network of checkpoints placed in different places of the internet. These checkpoints are connected to different networks of different ISP. They are also connected via various technologies (ADSL, WiFi, Dial-UP, GPRS...) to simulate common internet user as much as possible. Internet users are connected to various networks and with different speeds and SiUX tries to approximate such a situation. Using this checkpoint network SiUX can assume if and how fine are the services accessible from different places of the internet.
The checkpoint network is all connected together with master server which rules the way of monitoring and sends requests to the checkpoints which say what and when should be checked. Checkpoint acts the check in the right time and sends the results back to the master. Checkpoints are quite independent and each checkpoint can get disconnected from the network for some time. So if some ISP has troubles with connectivity, our checkpoint will use its local cache to act the checks and after connection recovery it will send all the results to the master.