I second Nagios. You can monitor the port required and get alerts by email or sms (if available)
On 4/14/09, Mike Chabot <mcha...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Oops. You did mention that you run CF8. Have you explored the > monitoring feature built into CF8 yet? > > -Mike Chabot > > On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Mike Chabot <mcha...@gmail.com> wrote: >> If your goal is to diagnose a mystery database issue that is a >> definite problem, I would use a database monitoring tool, such as MS >> SQL Profiler. Are you aware of the professional database monitoring >> tools, such as the ones Quest and Idera make? Where Web site >> monitoring of the database helps is to ensure that the Web server can >> connect to the database server, but that doesn't sound like the >> problem you are describing. What database are you running and what >> version of CF are you running? I ask about the CF version because CF8 >> has the query profiling feature built into it, although I would still >> favor a database query analysis tool if you know the problem is the >> database. >> >> -Mike Chabot >> >> On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Rob Parkhill >> <robert.parkh...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Good Day, >>> >>> Can't come up with a better title, so here is what I want to do. >>> >>> I have two servers, one DB and one web. My DB server is having MASSIVE >>> issues at the moment. CPUs blowing up, and the server shutting down >>> randomly, at night. I would like to use the webserver (with CF8) to >>> monitor the status of the DB server, and was wondering what everyone >>> thought was the best method? I was thinking of checking to see if the >>> domain server (which is controlled by the DB server) was in existence, >>> although I am not sure if that is possible with CF. The other thing I >>> could test would be the connection to the database, but I can't seem to >>> find the references to accessing the admin tools in CF8, where I thought >>> that would be possible, so any resource direction would be much >>> appreciated. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Rob >>> >>> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:321573 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
