Is there a utility that will remotely test for the existance of a
particular file on a Windows server? We are trying to find a way to
monitor when our shared server is down. Because some of our problems
appear to be caused by rogue scripts and spammers on the same server, a
simple ping will not work. PingPlotter does a great job of pinging, but
it will not necessarily tell us if the server is actually serving the
web site content.

mcp6453 wrote:

> PingPlotter does a great job of pinging, but
> it will not necessarily tell us if the server is actually serving the
> web site content.

We use http://www.siteuptime.com for monitoring our server at work. You
can get it to ping or check via HTTP at regular intervals. I think the
"free service" will do it every 30 mins or hourly can't remember which,
but we use the paid service and it checks every five minutes

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In article <45d0767b$0$759$EMAIL REMOVED>,
Dylan Parry <EMAIL REMOVED> wrote:
>mcp6453 wrote:
>
>> PingPlotter does a great job of pinging, but
>> it will not necessarily tell us if the server is actually serving the
>> web site content.
>
>We use http://www.siteuptime.com for monitoring our server at work. You
>can get it to ping or check via HTTP at regular intervals. I think the
>"free service" will do it every 30 mins or hourly can't remember which,
>but we use the paid service and it checks every five minutes
>



Servers Alive (aka salive) is a neat tool and the free version can
monitor 10 things with full functionality. The commercial version is
amazingly cheap.

http://www.woodstone.nu/salive/

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On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 13:56:42 GMT, mcp6453 <EMAIL REMOVED>
wrote:

>Is there a utility that will remotely test for the existance of a
>particular file on a Windows server? We are trying to find a way to
>monitor when our shared server is down. Because some of our problems
>appear to be caused by rogue scripts and spammers on the same server, a
>simple ping will not work. PingPlotter does a great job of pinging, but
>it will not necessarily tell us if the server is actually serving the
>web site content.

Why not fetch the file? You can easily FTP it, check it was retrieved,
delete it, then do it again at a period in the future.

Matt

Dylan Parry wrote:
> mcp6453 wrote:
>
>> PingPlotter does a great job of pinging, but
>> it will not necessarily tell us if the server is actually serving the
>> web site content.
>
> We use http://www.siteuptime.com for monitoring our server at work. You
> can get it to ping or check via HTTP at regular intervals. I think the
> "free service" will do it every 30 mins or hourly can't remember which,
> but we use the paid service and it checks every five minutes
>

Just signed up with them. Now I have to make sure that I set it up
correctly.

Thanks for the suggestion.

mcp6453 wrote:
> Dylan Parry wrote:
>> mcp6453 wrote:
>>
>>> PingPlotter does a great job of pinging, but
>>> it will not necessarily tell us if the server is actually serving the
>>> web site content.
>>
>> We use http://www.siteuptime.com for monitoring our server at work. You
>> can get it to ping or check via HTTP at regular intervals. I think the
>> "free service" will do it every 30 mins or hourly can't remember which,
>> but we use the paid service and it checks every five minutes
>>
>
> Just signed up with them. Now I have to make sure that I set it up
> correctly.

So did I.

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