No replacement for Nagios, but www.siteprobe.com offers a free 1-hour interval service for checking the status of your server. I guess that there are several other services like this on the net.
This can be a good supplement to Nagios, and you get it up and running in no time. Askild - [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Good idea.. I'll check that software out. I used to use > something called NetSaint back in the day.. dont know if its > still around or still as hard to configure as it used to be. > > > Not an answer to your immediate problem, but... > > > > Have you got any monitoring on your server? > > > > I've started using Nagios (www.nagios.org) an OS monitoring > > tool, Unix based, and it is great. (Up until now, all my > > monitoring was hand crafted). You can set it up to test your > > server every five minutes (say), and send you an > > email/text/pager message whenever it (a) doesn't respond (b) > > doesn't give a response you'd expect (e.g. page must contain > > a specific phrase). > > > > With something like this, at least you can be sure you'll > > find out before your boss! > > > > HTH. Upayavira --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
