Webtrends has a really cool monitoring service. You can set it to monitor just about everything under the sun. And if you monitor via networked machine, you can set a recovery sequence, such as start/stop cfservice on error, Repeat twice, wait 60 seconds then reboot if device has not recovered.
Brook At 09:45 AM 05/04/02 -0800, you wrote: >We have used all sorts of commercial monitoring in the past, >but none of them were perfect, we needed to know if the web server, cf >server and sql server >were communicating and playing together nicely - not just a ping, who cares >if the server responds >to a simple ping when the cf server has puked or the database server is >down - so we built our own solution >and it is very very easy (that is of course if you have multiple servers) > >In a nutshell here is what we did. > >On the server pair we want to monitor, we created a database with a simple >table and line of text in it, >something like "Server Name is UP" Then we create a simple cfm file on the >server that queries the >sql server and outputs the text on the page. > >Then we create a cfhttp file on a different cf server and schedule it to run >every 2 minutes >(we actually have a 3 or 4 servers all checking each other, from inside and >outside the local network) >that gets the text and parses it, looking for the line of text that was >pulled from the database >if it finds it, great, if not - we rerun that query with a longer timeout, >if the text is still not found, >we do a cfmail to our pagers and include which server is sending the >message, and which server is not responding. > >we actually have bunch of cf servers running, but you could get cf express >(i think it includes cfhttp and cfmail, never used it) >and schedule the file on many workstations, from inside the local network >and outside the local network. > >this allows us to test the web server, cf server, sql server, and internet >connection all in one simple test, and >by using timeouts on the queries, we can even tell when it is running slow, >as opposed to down, all with >limited overhead. we have been doing this for months now, and it has been >working great. > >kirk > > > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Dan Phillips" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 8:51 AM >Subject: RE: Site monitoring > > > > I want to monitor it's uptime. That way if my server goes dead at 4am, I >can > > get an email alert and search my logs to see what happened. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Alex [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 11:23 AM > > To: CF-Talk > > Subject: Re: Site monitoring > > > > > > what do you want to monitor? That the site is still up? Or OS statistics? > > Or web traffic? What? > > > > > > On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Dan Phillips wrote: > > > > > Can anyone tell me of a service out there like Netwhistle? I used to use > > > them from time to time to monitor my server at home but it seems they >are > > > out of business. > > > > > > Thanks! > > > > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
