On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 05:16:59PM -0800, Patrick Nelson wrote: > We have a vendor with an ASP app and we have a consultant who tests it > for performance. When the site goes down it sometimes takes us a couple > days (believe it or not) to get the info that the site was down. This > is something that we track (down-time). Right now we get reports from > the vendor. Great, but I want to have a monitor setup of my own. > Nagios sounds like great solution, however we do not have access to the > host (not sure if this even matters). So, I would like to monitor > whether the site is up or not now, while I explore if Nagios is a better > solution. There are businesses that do this level service but I want > the control which Nagios seems to give. Hope that is better info. The easiest method is to simply do: $ wget -q http://whatever.com/index.html >/dev/null $ echo $? If you get a 1 result back, the get failed. If it's zero, your site is up. Wrap that in a cron job to send you e-mail or whatever. There are better long-term solutions, but this is a quick hack to see if you can get a specific page and may tide you over until you get something better in place. Internally, we use Big Brother so that we not only get e-mailed when the event happens, but also maintain a somewhat decent history. Licensing of Big Brother is weird - you pay a fee if you use the monitored system to make money, and free otherwise. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:ewilts@xxxxxxxxxx Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
