Re: Recommendations for a good site monitoring service?
Thanks everyone. I'll have some fun this weekend breaking the server to see what happens. :-] - Original Message - From: Matt Robertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 17:00:20 -0700 Subject: Re: Recommendations for a good site monitoring service? To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sitepeeker's license begins and ends with: Use and distribute freely. No warranties express or implied.Althought I think I'll redo that to the Lesser GNU if I get around to it.The code is unencrypted. The intrafoundation stuff looks pretty neat.Add that to SP or the code of your choice and you can pretty much do anything, and all it'd cost you is a hosting account or a wee bit of space on your broadband-connected hard drive. It was just pointed out to me that the activityreport.cfm in the admin area -- which is a GridMonger config file -- is out of date.The GridMonger specification isn't tough to follow and anyone can download the thing and figure it out in 20 minutes or so, but I still need to get out an update to cover that.Should have a revised file set tomorrow or the next day. -- --Matt Robertson-- MSB Designs, Inc. mysecretbase.com [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
Re: Recommendations for a good site monitoring service?
Get yourself a cheap CF hosting acct and run your own (or run it off your home broadband for free if you have a cf server license available).I wrote SitePeeker (free in the MM devex) and use it to test smtp, http, https, pop3, cf/db and web mail at 4-minute intervals. I used to run it off a $20 / month monthly hosting account but its been running off my home dsl line for maybe the last two years. Emails me whenever something bad happens, and best of all its free. -- --Matt Robertson-- MSB Designs, Inc. mysecretbase.com [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
RE: Recommendations for a good site monitoring service?
Also check out; Servers Alive - free to 10 checks per script. http://www.woodstone.nu/salive/ and Big Sister - free open source alternative to Big Brother http://bigsister.graeff.com/ Mercury Interactive did have a free offering - I couldn't find on their website though http://www.mercury.com/us/products/product-index/ Haven't checked out I wrote SitePeeker (free in the MM devex) and use it to test smtp, http, https, pop3, cf/db and web mail at 4-minute intervals. but you could certainly roll your own easy enough. http://www.intrafoundation.com/tcpclient.asp has some good stuff to extend the checks available in SitePeeker (is this free open source? license?) An advantage of creating your own, reporting is exactly what you want, controlling both sides (server and SitePeeker client) your checks can be quite extensive - processor load, hard drive space, number of users, traffic rates. Colour coding, imagery, drill down scripts. In this model I would create test scripts for new applications, and run periodically, or in case of future application updates or system problems - I have an extensive test script to verify a system's stability. Big Sister has a system tray tool to monitor servers. I think a necessary component - I am sure you could extend Matt's to pull/push system status to a system tray program. Although I wouldn't know the best technologies (would like to know) to use to build it. I personally use a short 10 item list in Servers Alive to ping ISP gateway, my servers, check cf (http to call cfm page w/ db), and services like DNS, SMTP, POP, FTP. It sits in my system tray and can be configured to email, ICQ, page etc. You can also configure some reporting functions, but I haven't taken the time to fully take advantage of its features. I am planning to implement a Big Sister Server to try it out. I might try to create something on BlueDragon - I'll check out SitePeeker tonight. I have an intranet install I can play around with. We have Big Brother and NetView 6000 for monitoring - but I am hands off those tools. HTH Eric _ From: Matt Robertson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: August 30, 2004 4:25 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Recommendations for a good site monitoring service? Get yourself a cheap CF hosting acct and run your own (or run it off your home broadband for free if you have a cf server license available).I wrote SitePeeker (free in the MM devex) and use it to test smtp, http, https, pop3, cf/db and web mail at 4-minute intervals. I used to run it off a $20 / month monthly hosting account but its been running off my home dsl line for maybe the last two years. Emails me whenever something bad happens, and best of all its free. -- --Matt Robertson-- [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
Re: Recommendations for a good site monitoring service?
Sitepeeker's license begins and ends with: Use and distribute freely. No warranties express or implied.Althought I think I'll redo that to the Lesser GNU if I get around to it.The code is unencrypted. The intrafoundation stuff looks pretty neat.Add that to SP or the code of your choice and you can pretty much do anything, and all it'd cost you is a hosting account or a wee bit of space on your broadband-connected hard drive. It was just pointed out to me that the activityreport.cfm in the admin area -- which is a GridMonger config file -- is out of date.The GridMonger specification isn't tough to follow and anyone can download the thing and figure it out in 20 minutes or so, but I still need to get out an update to cover that.Should have a revised file set tomorrow or the next day. -- --Matt Robertson-- MSB Designs, Inc. mysecretbase.com [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
