There are many ways that you can monitor Iguana to ensure that your channels are running as expected:

• From the web interface, you can obtain Dashboard information that provides a detailed summary of the channels that you have defined.
• You can start or stop channels and obtain status information directly without having to log in to Iguana.

The following monitoring capabilities are available:

• You can start and stop Iguana channels by typing a URL in your web browser.
• From the DOS command prompt, you can retrieve Iguana statistics and start or stop channels.
• If you have installed monitoring software on your system, you can use it to monitor Iguana.

Iguana's Dashboard information enables an external process to analyze Iguana performance and activity on a channel-by-channel basis. This ensures that you can monitor the overall health of Iguana or implement additional automated alarm procedures, automated recovery and failover strategies. Simple scripting allows incorporation into enterprise monitoring systems.

The following sections describe these monitoring capabilities in more detail.

	If you are using Iguana 4.0 or later, you can also use email notification rules to monitor Iguana's performance, including whether channels have stopped or started. See Email Notification for details on how to use email notification rules, and see Email Notification Rule Examples for examples of email notification rules.