The Problem You want to quickly check an IP block and its history blacklisting status to see if you notice any patterns or issues you should be fixing. The manual way would be to open up each blacklisting report and try to figure out which blacklists keep re-listing you. The MCP Solution Just ask your […]
Category: 16.01 MCP – Use Cases
Look For Disruptive Maintenance Windows
The Problem Hosting providers occasionally need to perform disruptive maintenance on your servers. However, most of them won’t send notifications just for your affected servers, but instead for any affected server in a given data center. This isn’t always too helpful since you don’t particularly care if other servers go down, but not your own. […]
Review Account Activity
The Problem You’re managing a HetrixTools team account with 5+ Sub-Account team members, and you’d like an overview of the day’s team activity. Our Activity Log has very easy and capable search functionality, but going through hundreds or possibly thousands of log entries may be quite time-consuming. The MCP Solution Just ask your favorite AI […]
Manage Server Inventory
The Problem You’re in the middle of upgrading your server fleet, and you’d like to have a quick look at the current status and your overall progress with this task. The manual solution would be to go to your HetrixTools dashboard and manually open the server metrics for all of your uptime monitors, then note […]
Investigate Outage
The Problem You receive a downtime notification, and you’d like to know more about what exactly happened. The manual solution would be to open your HetrixTools dashboard, locate the affected uptime monitor, dig through its Location Fail Log and Network Diagnostics, as well as its Server Metrics. This could take quite some time. The MCP […]
Schedule maintenance based on emails
The Problem We sometimes get these emails, as in the example below, from different hosting providers that we work with, announcing a scheduled maintenance. Now, these are non-critical servers in our infrastructure, so we don’t mind the occasional interruptions, but we don’t want to be notified of these outages either. A manual solution would be […]