Announce: VOMon 2.0

[John Taylor]

Dear All,
I'm pleased to announce the release of *VOMon 2.0.
*
VOMon is a monitoring tool for Virtual Observatory services that can give
you early warning when one of your services misbehaves.  There are already
many free and nonfree products that do this sort of thing (MARS, the heart
of VOMon is one of them).  What makes VOMon different is its VO-awareness.
VOMon gets its list of services to watch from any IVOA standard registry,
filtered according to criteria you set (for example, you can get it to
monitor all services matching your institute's Authority ID).  When new
services matching your criteria are added to the registry, VOMon will
automatically monitor them.

*New features in 2.0:*
Multiple XML reports - a single instance of VOMon can produce several XML
reports defined by subfilters
Status change notifications by Atom feed  - no need to keep checking the
reports
Status change notifications by email (for the truly insane and/or lonely)
Status change notifications by SMS text message
Status change notifications by Jabber

You can see examples of the reports here:
http://thor.roe.ac.uk/vomon-full/status.xml
http://thor.roe.ac.uk/vomon/ag-status.xml
http://thor.roe.ac.uk/vomon/status.xml
http://thor.roe.ac.uk/vomon/cam-status.xml

(note that the styling for these reports is done with a user-provided
stylesheet, you're not stuck with my tasteless layout).  Since the reports
are in an easily-parsable xml format they can also be consumed by other
applications that might want to know a service's status.

You can subscribe to example feeds by going to the following blogs:
http://vo-weather.blogspot.com/
http://astrogrid-services.blogspot.com/

VOMon is free to download from:
http://vomon.sourceforge.net/

If you would like your services monitored, but don't want to run VOMon
yourself, then get in touch and I'll let you know what information I need to
set it up.

John
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