Monitoring all aspects of the server environment including the network is always a good thing. Elimination single points of failure will help, but that takes a lot of work and expense.
For monitoring the VPN, there are network monitoring tools. The simplest one being PING. Wil Genovese Sr. Web Application Developer/ Systems Administrator CF Webtools www.cfwebtools.com wilg...@trunkful.com www.trunkful.com On Nov 18, 2011, at 10:57 AM, Alan Rother wrote: > > Ouch, > > You're probably right, you can't totally prevent it - not without adding > some local redundancy - however you can react to it faster. The first step > towards that is actively monitoring the connection tunnel. > > I would create a schedule task / test file that looks to see if you can > access a table in the DB - something dumb you know will always be there - > if the query fails it notifies you immediately. > > I don't know much about your VPN setup, but if you can also hit a file > system across it, then you may want to periodically try to do some file > interaction on it as well - either test should tell you if the VPN is up or > not. > > =] > > -- > Alan Rother > Manager, Phoenix Cold Fusion User Group, www.AZCFUG.org > Twitter: @AlanRother > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:348809 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm