Obtaining server status??

nithins has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Greetings monks, I need your help in this, Our project has classified in to three dimensions(servers) , http i,e(portal end) ,siebel end & SOA end.When it comes to testing its hectic to find out which side is down.Is there any way to find out the health of these dimensions(servers) using perl script before starting the testing ?

Thanks in advance

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Re: Obtaining server status?? by Random_Walk (Prior) on Apr 18, 2013 at 08:00 UTC
There is an example here of a simple script to check services on a server and mail you if one is down. Add a round robin ping script (have a look at the Net::Ping module) and you have covered the basics. http://perl.about.com/od/perltutorials/qt/servicemonitor.htm Cheers, R. Pereant, qui ante nos nostra dixerunt!	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Obtaining server status?? by marto (Cardinal) on Apr 18, 2013 at 10:49 UTC
Sounds like you're looking for a network monitoring system. Big Sister comes to mind, but I've not looked at it in a long time. It's perl based.	[reply]
Re^2: Obtaining server status?? by spadacciniweb (Curate) on Apr 18, 2013 at 14:36 UTC
or nagios (($_="Mzz ojjdloobnf jt uvy5502383")=~y~b-zg2-5c96-81~a-z0-9~s)=~s~~~s; print	[reply]
Re: Obtaining server status?? by Anonymous Monk on Apr 18, 2013 at 07:51 UTC
... server status ... try to connect to server, query for status ... like nmap but more specific	[reply]
Re: Obtaining server status?? by Pizentios (Scribe) on Apr 19, 2013 at 13:38 UTC
Of course as somebody else pointed out nagois is a good tool for monitoring servers. There is another software called Zabbix (see http://www.zabbix.com/) that works quite well too. Nagios is definitely the classic tool IMHO, however i have had great experiences with zabbix as well. -Pizentios	[reply]