[Opensource] monitoring your web servers

[Kevork Krozian]

Hi Roland,

 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.

 Just imagine techs and ICT coordinators . 

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 !!

Enjoy ....


Kevork Krozian
kevork at edulists.com.au
www.edulists.com.au
Tel: 0419 356 034
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Roland Gesthuizen 
  To: Open Source Software Mailing List ; Technical Discussion in Schools Mailing List 
  Sent: Monday, November 02, 2009 2:11 AM
  Subject: [Opensource] monitoring your web servers


  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?


    http://www.siteuptime.com/

    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.


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  Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College
  http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au

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