I’ve recently started using Montastic (the website monitoring service that doesn’t suck) to monitor my web sites. Can’t get much simpler or cheaper (free for 3 sites) and only $5 for 15 sites.
Anyways I noticed they had Widgets/Gadgets for the Yahoo widget system and the Mac OS X, but they had nothing for Windows Sidebar (Vista / Windows 7). So I made a quick port of the Yahoo one for Windows Sidebar.
The Montastic sidebar gadget allows you to keep an eye on your servers from your desktop.
- Author: Pål Andreassen
- License: free
- Platform: Windows Vista / Windows 7
- Version 1.0.0
- Download Montastic sidebar gadget
I installed the widget but find that it does not automatically update.
If I go into the settings and press ok again then it updates.
I am running Windows 7 Ultimate (x64).
Any ideas?
That is strange. Can you please try this page in your browser:
http://www.montastic.com/feeds/quick_status?key=YOURKEY
Substitute YOURKEY with the key you have entered on the gadgets property page (the one you find on your profile page on montastic.com). The page returns a single number. 0 if all is ok, otherwise the number of servers that have a problem. The gadget polls that page once a minute.
Hi,
I tried the above url with my key and got a response of 0. All seems to work fine now and the gadget updates properly. Not sure what was happening there but thanks for the quick reply.
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