remote monitoring and outages
 

What are other webmasters using for remote monitoring?

I need to find something that I can run on a remote system to send a notification to my cellphone if my webserver is unavailable for over 5 minutes. I am asking because my webserver failed to restart after the logs rolled at 4am, and I didn't notice until 10am. :( The culprit was a typo I left in httpd.conf after testing some settings last night.

I am not sure if anyone has pulled my links due to the outage. Will most LL owners simply pull the links if they notice an outage, or do they blacklist the domain as well?

Should I post an outage notification after the fact? And if so, should it be in a forum on gg&j or via e-mail?

Any thoughts, advice, etc. is welcome..

airdick

airdick@bonerbox.com

I contacted James from extremerack.com about this, once he wakes up he will be able to tell you im sure, since he uses it for all of our stuff. :)

This is the software that we use. You can set it to call cell phones, beep you, send text messages, just about anything when a server (or service at that) goes down.

The server software is a called IPMONITOR.

http://www.ipmonitor.com/

Let me know if you have any questions about it!

James
EXTREMERACK
Tulin Online INC

Thanks for the tip on ipmonitor. It looks like a nice application.

I found a quick-n-dirty solution for now, a simple perl script that I run from cron. It will check every 5 minutes and send an e-mail if it can't make an http connection to the remote server:

http://stein.cshl.org/~lstein/talks/..._remote_server

For the longterm fix I'm leaning towards trying out nagios (http://www.nagios.org/) once I find an afternoon of quiet time to devote to getting it installed and configured.

We are actually trying to migrate to nagios.

Our system administrator has spent all his extra time over the last 2 months configuring it, and WHOA, says he is about 20 percent done.

I here it is the best out there, but I would count on missing a few football games this season if you want it configured right!

You might wanna give this app a go as well.

best part it's free and seems to do a great job.

you get notified about outages via page or email.

http://www.404alert.com


Rh