3rd party network monitoring

Drew Linsalata drew at gothambus.com
Tue Mar 4 17:15:15 UTC 2008


Try Hyperspin (hyperspin.com).  Basic, but pretty solid.






On Mar 4, 2008, at 12:02 PM, Darrell Hyde wrote:

>
> In light of the recent major outages experienced by XO and Abovenet, I
> have become very interested in finding a 3rd party vendor to  
> monitor the
> availability of my network from a variety of locations.
>
> I've looked at keynote / redalert, but oddly enough they don't seem to
> be able to monitor simple ICMP round-trip times - they (or at least  
> the
> sales folk that I've spoken with) insist on checking the status of  
> a TCP
> port or the response time of a web server.
>
> Google searches have yielded a few leads, but nothing terribly
> promising.
>
> Can anybody recommend a vendor for this type of service? I suppose I
> could always just get a bunch of VPS accounts here and there and run
> smokeping, but I'd really like to avoid that.
>
> - Darrell
>




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