General Info

Resources have many fields in common. This topic provides an overview of those common fields. Above is a screenshot, with the resource-specific portion blurred out, to indicate which items are common to all resource types.

Name: This is the name of your resource. This can be anything you might use to identify it as. In this example, the name if "Microsoft's Website", which is generally a more user-friendly way than providing the URL.
Group: This is the resource group this resource is assigned to. You can add/edit/delete resource groups by clicking the small button to the right of the dropdown. Resource groups can be useful for organizing your resources, but if you only have a few, using the default 'Main' group will likely be sufficient. Please see the link below for more information on setting up resource groups.
Schedule: This is the schedule used to monitor the resource. Schedules provide the information as to how often a resource is polled, when to send notifications, etc. You can add/edit/delete schedules by clicking the small button to the right of the dropdown. Please see the link below for more information on defining schedules.
Notification Group: This is the notification group that gets notified if this resource goes down. Notification groups provide an easy mechanism to notify 1 or more people, and to easily update who gets notified for many different resources. You can add/edit/delete notification groups by clicking the small button to the right of the dropdown. Please see the link below for more information on defining notification groups.
Password: This is the password/credential that is used when testing the resource. Passwords are required to properly monitor many resources for security reasons. You can add/edit/delete notification groups by clicking the small button to the right of the dropdown. Please see the link below for more information on defining passwords/credentials.
Disable Resource: This checkbox lets you disable a resource. When a resource is disabled, Overseer will no longer poll it, send notifications, etc. It will be displayed in the Overseer main window in a grayed out color to indicate it is disabled. This can be useful to effectively 'mute' a resource that you know is down and won't recover for quite a while, or for resources that will be going away, but you're not ready to delete yet.
Save: Clicking Save will save all the changes you have made to the resource. If the resource is new, it will save the resource and Overseer will start monitoring it immediately.
Cancel: Clicking Cancel will revert any changes you have made to the resource. If the resource is new, it will not be created.
Test: Clicking Test will cause Overseer to force an immediate test of the resource. This can be useful when initially setting them up, or when you know a resource has recovered and you want to test before the schedule tests automatically.

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