my apologies. I could've been more clear about the details of the situation and further explained the narrow scope of what was needed to prevent any misunderstanding. During day to day business, we do indeed have a more complete toolset available for regular monitoring. The guy just wanted a way to check things before turning the monitoring back on so that in case something was wrong, noone would be paged since they were all already at the colo facility.

Also you make some big assumptions about the way this move was done, i.e. that there was testing and transparent planning before the actual move. I'm just a developer responsible for the software running on these servers and not privy to such details.

In reply to Re^4: Reinventing the wheel by bageler
in thread Reinventing the wheel by bageler

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