I would strongly recommend keynote over gomez. It's what a lot of folks
use. Gomez has some interesting features, but I found them harder to
work with.
Pingdom is also a popular choice.
Or you could just use nagios or other monitoring tools.... do you have
any sort of network management/monitoring now? If so it's highly likely
you can add a probe for an HTTP service.
In fact I wouldn't recommend testing from the router, as that may be a
false positive (think someone changes an ACL and it's broken from
everywhere but the router).
So often you will want monitoring of both the "front channel" and the
"back channel".
Really don't know enough about your architecture to be sure. I'm basing
this on the architecture I have used at multiple organizations, where
one has a DMZ/Vlan and a management VLAN, with servers having a NIC in
each.
Joe Loiacono wrote:
Forgot to mention that you control everything from their web-site (hence
SAAS) which makes it very easy. You could resell the service ...
http://www.gomez.com/
Joe Loiacono/CIV/c...@csc
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04/03/2009 10:14 AM
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"Aaron Riemer" <[email protected]>
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[email protected], [email protected]
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Re: [c-nsp] Monitoring External Web Server
If you want to go commercial, we use a software-as-a-service (SAAS)
product called Gomez. You periodically contact your server from
browser-client nodes on their backbone. You can also execute scripts from
these nodes that will walk through your web-site in a pre-determined way.
The pricing model is based on a 'cost per measurement' subscription where
a measurement is an access of a web-site from a test node. If you do it
hourly, that would be 24 per day, etc.
Joe
"Aaron Riemer" <[email protected]>
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04/03/2009 12:50 AM
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<[email protected]>
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Subject
[c-nsp] Monitoring External Web Server
Hey guys,
We have a requirement to monitor the external availability of a web
server that hangs off our ASA DMZ interface. I was thinking of running
an IP SLA probe from our external router to test the web requests but I
was wondering if anyone had done something with EEM that could possibly
try to establish a TCP connection to the web server and report the
statistics somehow. I don't want to place a machine outside for the
monitoring so would prefer to do it from our router if possible.
Any thoughts?
Thanks,
Aaron.
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