Re: [OT] Server Monitoring

in reply to [OT] Server Monitoring

There's several "stops working" scenarios you might want to look at.

httpd stops working.
Use a cron job on the webserver to make sure an httpd process exists.
Database stop working.
Use a cron job on the DB server to make sure the DB process is running.
The machine itself stops working.
Use a cron job on some other machine to ping the server.

Cron jobs and Mail::Sendmail to your cellphone are all you really need.

In general, if you think something isn't in Perl, try it out, because it usually is. :-)
"What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?"

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Re^2: [OT] Server Monitoring by Jaap (Curate) on May 31, 2005 at 15:20 UTC
True. But i was kindof hoping there would be a ping service out there already.	[reply]
Re^3: [OT] Server Monitoring by dragonchild (Archbishop) on May 31, 2005 at 15:28 UTC
If it takes you more than 30 minutes to write these three scriptlets, I'd be shocked. In general, if you think something isn't in Perl, try it out, because it usually is. :-) "What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?"	[reply]

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