Keep-It-Up-X

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.

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
an Appleshare volume was remounted or a mount attempt failed.
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)

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%.

Note: the free memory check is currently not implemented in Keep-It-Up-X 3.0, enabling it will have no effect.

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.