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In the first part of this article I touched upon HTTP and FTP monitoring, this time we shall learn how to monitor your DNS, UDP, POP, and SMTP servers.

1. If you want to be sure that your DNS se

According to USFDA, a combination product is one composed of any combination of a drug and device; biological product and device; drug and biological product

rver operates correctly all the time, you might want to set up DNS Server monitoring. In this case be ready to provide:

Task Name: specify a name for the task, e.g.: My

; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug.

Examples of combination products may in

DNS Server Monitoring;

Maximum Connection Timeout: the number of seconds that the monitoring agent (for the “monitoring agent” concept explanation see Part I of the ar

lude drug-coated devices, drugs packaged with delivery devices in medical kits, and drugs and devices packaged separately but intended to be used together.

ticle) is going to try to get the URL resolved before the attempt is considered a failure.

Server: the name of the DNS server;

URL to Resolve: th

here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe

URL that is going to be resolved, e.g. http://www.somehost.com;

2. User Data Protocol (UDP) monitoring:

Task Name: specify a name for the task, e.g.

d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations.

Combination pro

UDP monitoring;

Maximum Connection Timeout (in seconds): 60 is a usual value;

Server: the server to be monitored, e.g. 122.

ucts have become life saving products for the pharmaceutical companies who doesn’t have many innovative molecules in their product pipeline and have been inc

8.27.11;

Port: specify the port to use when monitoring agents will try to connect to your server;

3. Incoming Mail Server (POP) monitoring: website mon

easingly used in the product life cycle management. Even the companies having product patents are trying to extend their product life cycle through the combi

itoring agents will try to login to your incoming mail server and get a correct response with a certain frequency.

Task Name: specify a name for the task, e.g. POP Serv

nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically

r Monitoring;

Maximum Connection Timeout (in seconds): 60 is a usual value;

Server: your POP3 server(incoming mail server), e.g. <

and physically. They need to rightly judge the benefits of the combination products and they have to even look at the risks involved when combining the produ

em>pop.somehost.com;

Login to Server: select YES if you want the monitoring agent to login to your mail server. You will have to provide your e-mail account

ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi

ata for monitoring agents to log in. If you select NO, all the monitoring agent will be able to check is whether your server is up or not.

User Name: a user name

ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it.

Following aspects would a

to log in to the POP server;

Password: your e-mail password;

4. Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP) monitoring: website monitoring agents will connect to your SMTP S

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
Which combination prod

erver and get a correct response with a certain frequency.

Task Name: specify a name for the task, e.g. SMTP Server Monitoring;

Maximum Connection

cts are meaningful and rational?
Which therapeutic categories to select?
Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
Do combin

Timeout (in seconds): 60 is a usual value;

Server: SMTP server (your outgoing mail server), e.g. smtp.somehost.com;

5. Incoming Mai

tions increase the patient compliance?
What would be the developing cost?
How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen

l Server and Outgoing Full Cycle (SMTP/POP3) monitoring: website monitoring agents will try to send an e-mail and then receive it within a given period of time.

Task Name:

t?

As combination products don't fit into the traditional categories of drugs, medical devices, or biological products, the USFDA is in the process of devel

specify a name for the task, e.g. SMTP/POP monitoring;

Maximum Connection Timeout (in seconds): 60 is a usual value;

SMTP Server:
ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality.

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust
ong>your SMTP server name, e.g. smtp.somehost.com;

Email to send a test message: e.g. my-email@somehost.com

POP3 Serv

y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products

r: your POP3 server name, e.g. pop.somehost.com;

POP3 User Name: your username to login to the POP server;

POP
.

As there is an increasing trend of the combination products companies manufacturing such products should be able to tackle the problems involved in the de
ng>3 Password: your POP3 password;

Maximum timeout for test message receiving: 60 is a usual default.

In the first two parts of thi

elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements.

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

article we’ve learnt how to set up the most typical website monitoring tasks. In the next (and the last) part we shall take up notification options and fault toleration adjustment.

To be finished

tion in industry events and feedback to regulatory authorities would be able to face the challenges and will be successful in developing combination products

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