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Old 6th November 2008
Yuka Yuka is offline
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Originally Posted by bsddaemon View Post
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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I hear you on this. My company just won a contract to fix up this server and well... the guy who set up the server initially for the client did a really bad job. I'm cleaning up after him.

We'll probably use the namservers at the datacenter that the website is hosted in (nac.net).
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