Thanks Kevork, I was curious about a service that is outside the school to track when the website is up or down. It is more to see when your outside link falls over than the server itself and perhaps mroe of use when you are away from school.<br>
<br>Arran and Daniel have gotten me interested in OpenNMS, Cacti and Nagios. Must show them off to you one day. Each has their different advantages and we are running them as evaluation VM's although I think I will be greedy and ask to keep and use the lot. :-)<br>
<br>Say, do you have any thoughts or ideas about SMS gateways?<br><br>Regards Roland<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/11/2 Kevork Krozian <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kevork@edulists.com.au">kevork@edulists.com.au</a>></span><br>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Hi Roland,</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2"> We used Big Brother for many years with a set
of "traffic lights" showing all services on multiple servers down do disc space
usage, DNS, Mail, DHCP etc with the option to SMS one or more numbers when a
trigger point was breached.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2"> Just imagine techs and ICT coordinators .
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">This can prevent the regular "is the internet down
?", is "email down?" , "is the system down?" as techs/ICT coordinators
carrying books, going to class , sitting at lunch, going to the toilet are
confronted with several times per day/week !!</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Enjoy ....</font></div>
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<div><br></div>Here is an interesting and free web service that is probably
worth investigating for tracking and logging alerts when school web servers go
down. Do any others use this or use something similar?<br><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><a href="http://www.siteuptime.com/" target="_blank">http://www.siteuptime.com/</a><br><br>
SiteUptime
is a website monitoring service that checks your website at regular
intervals and notifies you via email or SMS if it becomes unavailable. We
offer a Free 30 day trial of our service. Multiple monitoring servers around
the world run protocol based tests on your website at specific intervals. If
more than one location detects a connection failure, an email or SMS alert
is sent to you.<br clear="all"></blockquote><br>-- <br>Roland Gesthuizen - ICT
Coordinator - Westall Secondary College<br><a href="http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au" target="_blank">http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au</a><br><br>"Never
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