Checking if CF server is available

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

I have written small scripts to check servers if they are available and mail me if the server not available. How can I do the same for my Cold Fusion MX server sitting on our Windows 2000 IIS server? Is there an IP address I can fetch or something in the Cold Fusion server I can check to notify me when it is not available?
Here is an example of how I check if servers are available:

use strict;
my $serv = '111.222.333.444';
system("/usr/sbin/ping $a > /dev/null");
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How would I do this for checking Cold Fusion server availability??

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Re: Checking if CF server is available by borisz (Canon) on May 21, 2004 at 11:56 UTC
`perl -MLWP::Simple -e 'print "failed" unless head("http://111.222.333 +.444/apage")'` [download] Boris	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Checking if CF server is available by dfaure (Chaplain) on May 21, 2004 at 11:13 UTC
Since you want to know the status of a web server, why don't use LWP in order to send HTTP request to it?	[reply]