Thank you all for your responses to my "style" question. Your feedback was much appreciated.

I have need to monitor (functionally) whether several of my web apps are up and running. Monitoring the servers, and looking for processes I have covered. However for the app to be "up", all of the tiers need to be running correctly. I can do this functional test by pulling up specific URLs in a browser, but I need to automate this to run unattended. Long term I want to buy tools to integrate with my systems management stuff, but for now automating this test will greatly improve my monitoring capability.

I've looked around quite a bit, thinking someone would have built something like this already, but I really haven't found that much. I think I could cook something up using LWP or others and was wondering if any monks had done something similar and might point me in the right direction.

TIA,
Rich

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