Re: [newbie] Question with monitoring system

[Christopher Taylor]

On 8/12/05, Ivo Perich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

I have a Linux server doing ping to about 130 remote hosts. It is monitoring
the time response and making  mrtg graphics on each host. Everything works
ok, but there is a bureaucratic problem: in the project's documentation they
say that the pings has to be done FROM the remote host TO the server. Why? I
don't know, because every monitoring system i have seen does the pings probes
or whatever itself. What do you think? There's any technical difference
between doing the ping from one side or another in order to monitor time
response? (Besides of the costs, of course. We should put a dedicated machine
on every point.) I write this email to be used as an expert opinion in front
of my counterpart.

Thanks for your response

Ivo Perich
BITs Ltda, Temuco, Chile

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Is it possible that the ping coming from the client is being used as a keep alive signal that allows the client to know that the server is still up?  Also, having the pings on the clients saves CPU all around.  Each client does one ping each instead of the server pinging each individual computer.  This is just a thought as I have no idea as to  the scope or purpose of the project you are working on.


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