Re: heartbeats

2005-12-12 Thread Chris Miles
Hi Yves, You could try using EDDIE Tool's PORT directive to periodically make TCP connections to your clients and check the result matches what is expected. The alert engine will make it easy for you to define actions to perform for failure conditions. http://eddie-tool.net/ You could also d

Re: heartbeats

2005-12-09 Thread Tom Anderson
On Fri, 9 Dec 2005, Peter Hansen wrote: > Tom Anderson wrote: >> On Fri, 9 Dec 2005, Sybren Stuvel wrote: >>> You probably mean "really a ping, just not an ICMP echo request". >> >> What's a real ping, if not an ICMP echo request? That's pretty much the >> definitive packet for internetwork grop

Re: heartbeats

2005-12-09 Thread Peter Hansen
Tom Anderson wrote: > On Fri, 9 Dec 2005, Sybren Stuvel wrote: >>You probably mean "really a ping, just not an ICMP echo request". > > What's a real ping, if not an ICMP echo request? That's pretty much the > definitive packet for internetwork groping as far as i know. I think that > the more ge

Re: heartbeats

2005-12-09 Thread Tom Anderson
On Fri, 9 Dec 2005, Sybren Stuvel wrote: > Yves Glodt enlightened us with: > >> In detail I need a daemon on my central server which e.g. which in a >> loop pings (not really ping but you know what I mean) each 20 seconds >> one of the clients. Do you mean pings one client every 20 sec, or each

Re: heartbeats

2005-12-09 Thread Steve Holden
Yves Glodt wrote: > Hi, > > I need to write a heartbeat solution to monitor some external clients, > and what is different as in the examples that I have seen so far is that > I want my central server to poll the clients, and not the clients > "pinging" the central server. > > In detail I need

Re: heartbeats

2005-12-09 Thread Sybren Stuvel
Yves Glodt enlightened us with: > In detail I need a daemon on my central server which e.g. which in a > loop pings (not really ping but you know what I mean) each 20 > seconds one of the clients. You probably mean "really a ping, just not an ICMP echo request". > The only thing the client has to

heartbeats

2005-12-09 Thread Yves Glodt
Hi, I need to write a heartbeat solution to monitor some external clients, and what is different as in the examples that I have seen so far is that I want my central server to poll the clients, and not the clients "pinging" the central server. In detail I need a daemon on my central server whi