It occurred to me that several of us with Mon installations on different networks with different providers could all band together and monitor one another.
Traps from failed monitors would go upstream to a central box, a sort of collector for all the spread out Mon installs, maybe to two for redundancy. Rules could be setup to only alert when a threshold is hit, perhaps so that several monitors have to agree that a test failed before it sends out a page/email/whatever. The possibilities for alerting are flexible with Mon, that's just one example. Basically I'm thinking of a "poor man's Keynote", or a "FreeNote" service that members donate a Mon install to in order to join. Lots of details would need to be worked out to implement it, most of which aren't appropriate to actually discuss on a general Mon mailing list. I'm really just curious if people see some potential in my cooky idea. Well, do you? -- Cahn's Axiom: When all else fails, read the instructions.
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