Keep-It-Up Classic
E-mail Notifications and Alarm triggers
E-mail notification
KIU can send e-mail messages to you, actively alerting you of certain events (e.g. an application was relauched, server restart,...). You can enable
this feature in the preferences dialog:
Enter the sender and destination e-mail addresses in the
From: and To: fields. You can enter multiple destination addresses
separated by commas. The From: and To: addresses can be the same.
Many SMTP servers check if the sender address is a valid one, others let
you fill in anything you want. If you get any errors in the logfile saying
something like "we do not relay", the SMTP server does not accept the sender
address and you should choose a valid one.
You also need to enter the (dns) name or IP address of a valid SMTP server.
When enabled, KIU will send e-mail notifications when
- an application gets relaunched
- somebody uses an invalid username/password to access the KIU webserver
- an alarm is triggered (see below)
- before KIU restarts the Mac
- a few minutes after KIU gets launched (thus also after the Mac is
restarted)
- automounter mounted a volume or failed to mount a volume.
The KIU e-mail client will only try to deliver e-mail once. If it doesn't
succeed, the message is discarded. Any error messages can be found in the
KIU log file.
Alarm Triggers
KIU can monitor the memory and disk resources of your Mac. If free memory
or disk space falls below a certain preset level, it will alarm you by sending
an e-mail notification and creating an entry in the KIU log file.
You can enable this feature in the preferences menu:
- make sure you enable the e-mail notifications (otherwise the alarms
will only create an entry in the KIU logfile)
- enable the disk and/or memory check and enter the level at which
an alarm should be triggered. Typical values for disks are 5%-10%. Typical
values for memory are 10%-30%
KIU checks free memory for each individual application, except for some
applications which are know to grab all available memory for buffering (eg.
Filemaker Pro). KIU also checks the largest unused memory block (= free memory
to launch new applications).
KIU checks all disks for free space, except for read-only disks.
The checks are repeated about every 5 minutes. When one or more alarms
are triggered, KIU will send an e-mail message for each alarm. It
will then stop sending messages during the period you entered as "notification
interval". After this period, the same or new alarms can be triggered again.
