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System Monitoring Software
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Big-C
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Apr 16, 2004, 10:11 AM
 
Hi,

Has anyone ever heard of or used an application that will (for example), check to make sure DNS is working on another machine? Or to make sure http is working on a remote machine?

I am familiar with shell scripting enough to check that a machine is up (using ping), but I don't know how to test for an actual service. So if someone has any suggestions for doing things that way, please post them! I would prefer to go this route...

What my ultimate goal is to find an app that will check these services over the network, and if one is down, dial-up and page/email me.

My boss requires that any system monitoring tool dial-up for notification, in case the network is down. As such, I can't have my system just send me an email.

Thanks for any help or ideas!!

-Chris
     
   
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