On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 09:08 -0500, Ki Song wrote: > Our company is having some issues with a web hosting provider. The server we > have with them (at a remote location) crashes ... sometimes more than once a > week. That isn't normal, you really want to get another host! > Is there a network monitoring tool that I can install on a machine within > our own network that will monitor the server uptime of our server that is at > a remote location? > > I want a tool that will monitor the server, make sure certain services are > working, and then, if they are not, to either text message me, or e-mail me. There are various companies that purport to provide that sort of service. If you were adept at simple programming, you could write your own tool that would periodically fetch a file from your server, and report if it failed. -- Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
