RE: [cobalt-users] Server monitoring Software/Services?

["Andy Brown" <andy.brown@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Can someone recommend some good software or services for 
> keeping an eye on a Raq4r to make sure everything is working 
> ok and to notify me if something is wrong.
> 
> Something I'd really be interested in, and I'm not sure if it 
> exists, is some sort of service that monitors your server 
> from various locations throughout the US.  Cause obviously if 
> I can access the server, doesnt necessarily mean someone from 
> California can, cause we take different paths to reach the 
> server, right?
> 
> Thanks in adavance for any help.
> 
> Have a god one!
> 
> Nick


As a quick sidenote to this (And probably OT too :)

If you get somebody to monitor your websites availability, or individual
sites, don't forget to account for those in your statistics. We use
Urchin and filter out requests from our monitoring servers so that
customers get a real representation of their hits rather than the number
of times the monitoring platform requested the page (once every 20 mins
in our case)


Andy Brown
andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://ineedlinux.info
http://www.linuxnetworking.co.uk