On Fri, 20 Jul 2007, Corey Mosher wrote:
> If my hardware and software firewalls block ping requests, what do you guys
> suggest as an alternative to ping to determine that a server is up and
> running? I intend to eventually setup check_by_ssh checks for each server
> for various things like hard disk space, etc but I was wondering if there was
> something else that might be good for just checking that a system is up and
> running.
Actually. Whatever works for me.
But anyone blocking ICMP but allowing SSH needs to re-evaluate the
security policies.
And if they only allow SSH selectively they can add the proper ICMP
traffic as well.
Hugo.
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Some men see computers as they are and say "Windows"
I use computers with Linux and say "Why Windows?"
(Thanks JFK, for the insight.)
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