Monitoring highly redundant operations

Howard C. Berkowitz hcb at clark.net
Fri Jan 26 04:14:05 UTC 2001


>On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Simon Lockhart wrote:
>
>>
>>   Indeed. We currently monitor each part of our operation from a monitoring
>>   station on our network. Under certain conditions, this can give us both
>>   false positives and false negatives:
>>
>Umm... Keynote?
>(http://www.keynote.com)
>
>I find it truly amazing that people don't already diversely
>monitor.  Hell, have cronned pings running off your friend's cable modem
>if that's all you can afford, but for christ's sake, a single box colo'd
>in someone else's cage, or a shell at shells.com or nether.net really
>isn't that expensive.
>
>
>Fighting the war against bad networks,
>
>Matthew Devney
>Teamsphere Interactive


Might be interesting to define a set of basic monitoring functions
that independent ISPs can run on each other and share results.  Early
warnings could go to a special email.

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