It's not CF, so there's a bit of learning curve, but nagios is a great open source monitoring tool. http://www.nagios.org/. There's commercial support to help get it running, but it's rock solid, free, and runs great from a DSL connection.
We've got a few customers that asked us to put in Nagios (well, they said monitoring and we chose nagios) and we asked *them* if we can use their Nagios install to monitor other sites, so we now have a number of different Nagios monitors on different service providers that monitor each other and report back to our central console as well -- so we can get confirmation of any outage from multiple sources. All free. All scalable. And not that hard to figure out. There's other tools too -- cricket, umm, netsaint, few others. Nagios seems to be the current leader. That said, I've used SitePeeker for a couple of quick and dirty projects before I learned Nagios and it worked just fine. But Nagios will let you monitor any port, let you run transactions, let's you escalate notification of folks, etc. Great tool. The open source equivalent in many ways to WhatsUp! (which I love, but is about $750/site vs $0 for Nagios) Regards, John Paul Ashenfelter CTO/Transitionpoint [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matt Robertson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 4:06 PM Subject: RE: Auto Pinging Script? > Thane Sherington wrote: > >What do you use as your "good" server to test from? > > For about the last 1 1/2 to 2 years I have used my home DSL connection, on which I am running a full licensed copy of CF. Otherwise the cheapest way to do it is to get a cheapie hosting acct that lets you use cfschedule, or will schedule the tag call for you. > > I used Intermedia until I got home DSL. I talked with one of their owners before signing up and they were perfectly fine with the use I was putting the acct to. > > RedAlert wants US$115.95 per month for a 4-target, 5-minute interval monitor. Netwhistle wants US$140 and apparently can't do POP/SMTP testing. Intermedia cost me US$30 monthly. My sealed copy of CF cost me US$235 on Ebay. > > SitePeeker does everything I want it to. If you can think of anything else you want let me know. Haven't upgraded it in awhile. > > > -- > ------------------------------------------- > Matt Robertson, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > MSB Designs, Inc. http://mysecretbase.com > ------------------------------------------- > > -- > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=i:4:138318 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=t:4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 ColdFusion MX 6.1, now 2.5 times faster. http://www.macromedia.com/software/coldfusion/productinfo/upgrade/jump/introducing.html?trackingid=ColdFusion_468x60g_HouseofFusion_carat_082803
