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[internetworkers] Re: Web monitor?

From: "Lance A. Brown" <lance AT bearcircle.net>
To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: [internetworkers] Re: Web monitor?
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 08:50:56 -0400

Tony Spencer wrote:
> Can anyone recommend a web monitoring service? I just want something
> inexpensive that tries port 80 on a server every 10 minutes or so and sends
> me an email and SMS if it doesn't respond.
>
> I wrote my own script but it isn't foolproof.

If you have your own server, there are several free packages you can use
to do something like this:

http://www.bb4.org/
http://www.nagios.org/

are two popular ones.

--[Lance]

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[internetworkers] Web monitor?, Tony Spencer, 04/27/2005
- [internetworkers] Re: Web monitor?, Lance A. Brown, 04/27/2005
  - RE: [internetworkers] Re: Web monitor?, Michael Best, 04/28/2005
- Re: [internetworkers] Web monitor?, Matt Pusateri, 04/27/2005
- Re: [internetworkers] Web monitor?, David Minton, 04/27/2005
  - Re: [internetworkers] Web monitor?, Brian Godfrey, 04/28/2005