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All,

I use httping and cron every hour from another machine. The only problem
is when there is a network problem, and that's worth knowing about, too.

- -chris

ben short wrote:
> I'd still recommend Nagios to do the monitoring, far cheaper than
> hiring someone to do the checking 24*7. Also you'll get an instant
> notification of when things go bad, rather then in 2 hours time when
> someone checks it.
> 
> You could setup 2 instances of nagios.. get them to monitor each other
> and then also mirror everything that will be monitored onto each of
> them. You;ll get two alerts if things go bad, but that's better than
> none.
> 
> A faq on nagios monitoring tomcat..
> 
> http://nagios.org/faqs/viewfaq.php?faq_id=310
> 
> On 5/24/07, Mark H. Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 03:03:12PM +0530, Praveen Kumar wrote:
>> > It seems this is also one type of  tool. Here  again we have some
>> problem
>> > ie  we  should  monitor this tool too right  ?
>> >
>> > So  instead installing new  tool to  monitor  tomcat server , is
>> there any
>> > feature   that apache group provides  to  inform tomcat server status ?
>>
>> There is an insoluble dilemma here.
>>
>> If you use a separate process to monitor your server, then that
>> process must also be monitored.  Eventually you have two processes
>> watching each other, whatever else they may be doing.
>>
>> If you do *not* use a separate process, then your server can only
>> report its state transitions if it is still able to do so.  A crashed
>> process cannot tell you that it has crashed; the most you can get is
>> that it will begin failing to tell you that it has *not* crashed.
>>
>> To get complete coverage can become quite elaborate.  To protect
>> against hardware failure, you need two machines monitoring each other.
>> To protect against network or utility power failure, you need two (or
>> more) machines monitoring each other from different sites.
>>
>> At some point as this scales up, it may be more sensible to just hire
>> somebody to watch screens and check things periodically.
>>
>> -- 
>> Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Typically when a software vendor says that a product is "intuitive" he
>> means the exact opposite.
>>
>>
>>
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