I would not monitor the service internally. If it is mission critical server, think about situations when the box itself is down, local connection problem, firewall misconfiguration...
To get a fairly accurate result, the services should be monitored with cron from more than 2 remote servers. You can buy hosting package with SSH access, otherwise, there are some websites that offer cron service without any charge.
If you wanna get a best result from monitoring, consider the following aspects when writting monitoring script:
- It is running and status is ok, but is the result returned correct?
- Does it take long to response?
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Last edited by bsddaemon; 6th November 2008 at 12:40 AM.
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