On Fri, 27 Aug 2010, David N. Blank-Edelman wrote:
> Hi Alex- > Big Brother's successor, Xymon (formerly Hobbit) at > http://sourceforge.net/projects/xymon/ may get you closer to what you seek. I am going to jump on the bandwagon here and yell 'Xymon!' Looking at your earlier idea about checking with ping, I cringed for a second, but then recovered. But it might be worth mentioning here that ping is NOT sufficient to see if a host is alive! I have known of an organization which used ping to see if its servers were alive, but ping didn't detect when a DoS attack ran the servers out of filehandles causing all net services to become unavailable, including SSH, without affecting the ICMP stack. _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
