[NTLUG:Discuss] Script request

[terry]

On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 2:21 AM, Fred <fredstevens at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Has anyone got a script that cron could run to see if
> a server is up and running? I just found out that a webserver
> over in the corner has been sitting there for 4 days waiting
> for someone to get the driver CD out of the drive and let
> it boot. This was after the power company ran down the
> battery in the UPS unit. (well, not really, but you know...)
>
> I guess a simple ping test would work, since if it is up enough
> for the networking, then the rest is probably running, too.
> That would be better than now, which is nothing.
>
> Thanks,
> Fred
>
>
This looks interesting:

http://www.howtoforge.com/make-monit-send-sms-alerts-when-the-server-goes-down



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