Hi Thomas, Thanks for the response.
The client for which I am working will not allow any external utility / modules to be installed on their development / production environments. Moreover they want the solution implemented using Perl only. Thanks & Regards, Amit Saxena On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 4:43 AM, Thomas Bätzler <t.baetz...@bringe.com>wrote: > Amit Saxena <learn.tech...@gmail.com> asked: > > I want a perl ping script (console based) to monitor server up/down > > state. > > Why re-invent the wheel when there's already stuff like mon ( > http://mon.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page) or nagios ( > http://www.nagios.org/)? > > HTH, > Thomas >