Miny programme of some sort

gentoobobby · Apprentice Joined: 17 Jan 2006 Posts: 293

I have 6 servers currently a few hundred miles from my house adnd they are doing important things like checking like dns to my web server and stuff .

I need to come up with some sort of aplication or program that can tell me wether the servers are on or off , Or if the web server is serving web pages .

Could any one advice me on what i could do .

mdeininger · Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 1:37 pm Post subject:

ping and telnet?
if it's on and its network is active (should be always), ping should work (ping -c 1 server) and is easy to parse from a script.

to figure out if http is active, use telnet (or better yet: socat) and try to connect to port 80 -- if it works, it's serving, if not, it ain't. or use wget and try to fetch something. either should be ok to parse from scripts.
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gentoobobby · Apprentice Joined: 17 Jan 2006 Posts: 293

hey man thanks for the reply .

This is all good for me to do manually but i need something that will give me the results

say ping the server but if the ping does not work then

email me the results or bring up a warning message or something .

Cheers any help would be great .

mark_alec · Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 2:28 pm Post subject:

Moved from Portage & Programming to Networking & Security. This seems more appropriate as the question is dealing with a networking computer problem.

gentoobobby · Apprentice Joined: 17 Jan 2006 Posts: 293

CheersAny help would be greatful guys

feld · Guru Joined: 29 Aug 2004 Posts: 593 Location: USA

so basically you want something that will do some automatic server monitoring and email / notifiy you somehow if something goes wrong?

I might be able to find out what a friend of mine uses for his servers. He runs gentoo on them.

-Feld
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