On Wednesday 11 August 2004 20:01, Gordon Hudson wrote: > > I would like to see tucows offer a server monitoring service, going > > beyond the standard ping or head command and checking for an last > > updated date and/or searching to make sure specific text is included on > > the page. > > I found this to be a poor way of doing it. > You get lots of false positives for one reason or another.
Seems to work okay for us - but then we want to know if the link from our monitoring box to the servers is down for other reasons. I think Keynote do tests from multiple locations, and although their main interest is performance, it might be applicable. I believe they also will do mock transactions over https to show if a backend server is down on ecommerce sites. I don't see it fitting tucows offerings - plenty of companies sell monitoring software that also checks websites, and some companies offer monitoring that does just web. I think also some of the load balancers were starting to get into checking if pages had been altered, but that seems pretty arcane role in life for a load balancer. Would seem more appropriate for TUCOWs to do DNS monitoring/checking to me, but perhaps we have a very narrow view of their role in life. I have scripts to monitor our DNS but they could be a lot better if there was money in running them rather than just peace of mind. I'm thinking checking delegation, notification if a delegated server is not responding for some period (could be quite long period, I'm not thinking real time), notification if/when delegation changes,and of inconsistencies between DNS and whois data. It is probably only worth a dollar a year per domain or something of that order to us, but others might think it worth more. Whilst other companies will do this sort of thing, it would fit with our procedures well if it were just an option when transfering/ordering the domain.
