Overview of OVHcloud Monitoring on Dedicated Servers

Learn about OVHcloud Monitoring and how to configure it for your Dedicated Servers.

OVHcloud Monitoring allows you to monitor the status of your machine from the OVHcloud Control Panel. It also automatically triggers an intervention at the datacenter when the server becomes unresponsive to ICMP (ping) requests. Additionally, OVHcloud will notify customers via email when a potential issue with their server is detected. All OVHcloud Dedicated Servers and networks are monitored 24 hours a day, seven days a week by the OVHcloud technical teams.

Instructions

Monitoring IP addresses

To implement a restrictive firewall without losing the benefit of OVHcloud Monitoring, it is necessary to whitelist the following IPs:

Communication between the Real-Time Monitoring service and your server also requires that you allow inbound and outbound connections on UDP ports 6100 through 6200.

Configuring monitoring

From the OVHcloud Control Panel:

1. Click Bare Metal Cloud on the top of the page.

2. Then, click Dedicated servers on the left-hand sidebar and select your server.

3. In the Service status box, click the Configure button.

4. Read through the options and select one.
   The available options are: (1) Disabled, (2) Enabled with proactive intervention, and (3) Enabled without proactive intervention. You can read about each option in more detail within the pop-up window.

5. Click Confirm to submit your changes.

You can learn more about the intervention process in this guide.

Go further

For more information and tutorials, please see our other Dedicated Servers support guides or explore the guides for other OVHcloud products and services.