To know the server life or not

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

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Re: To know the server life or not by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Oct 20, 2002 at 02:00 UTC
For simple "server up/down" checks use fping. If you want to check the services themselves, you might want to check the various Net::* modules on CPAN. But actually, you probably want to use one of mon (written in Perl I think), Big Brother or NetSaint - no need to reinvent a well working wheel. Makeshifts last the longest.	[reply]
Re: Re: To know the server life or not by IlyaM (Parson) on Oct 20, 2002 at 15:10 UTC
Since you've mentioned NetSaint. This is a quote from its website: For those who have not heard, NetSaint is being renamed to Nagios. You can find the Nagios homepage at http://www.nagios.org. NetSaint is no longer actively being developed - all development is now being put into Nagios. -- Ilya Martynov, ilya@iponweb.net CTO IPonWEB (UK) Ltd Quality Perl Programming and Unix Support UK managed @ offshore prices - http://www.iponweb.net Personal website - http://martynov.org	[reply]
Re: To know the server life or not by tadman (Prior) on Oct 20, 2002 at 02:02 UTC
You could use something like Netsaint or NMAP before trying to write one of your own. After all, a monitoring system is no good if it has more bugs than the software it's monitoring. Both of these programs can be extended with scripting, so if you need something specific done, you can usually make them do what you want with a bit of work.	[reply]
Re: To know the server life or not by DigitalKitty (Parson) on Oct 20, 2002 at 02:02 UTC
Hi Anonymous Monk, By 'fail' do you mean is off-line? If so, you could use the Net::Ping module. If not, could you post again? I might not fully understand what you meant by 'fail'. Thanks, -Katie.	[reply]