[NTLUG:Discuss] Notification of downed server?

[MadHat]

On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 13:33, Richard Humphrey wrote:
> I was curious as to what, if anything others do about being notified if
> the servers go down due to power outages etc. Living in Texas during
> spring we have many a thunderstorm and blackouts for short periods of
> time. What type of technologies are available to notify the admin when a
> server goes down? All of our servers are on battery backups so is there
> a method, maybe emailing me that the server is on battery power and will
> be going down?

I have my boxes page me when they reboot via an rc script, so I know
when they have rebooted and have them monitor each other for services
and network connectivity (ping vs tcp connect vs full connect).

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