3rd party network monitoring

Thu Mar 6 05:43:36 UTC 2008

Regarding Keynote support - the company I work for pulls alerts from the 
RSS feed they offer.  They changed the format of the feed a couple of 
months ago without notice, breaking our monitoring and leaving us blind 
for some time.  When we contacted our service rep, he wasn't even aware 
of the changes they made.  Your mileage may vary.

Eddy Martinez wrote:
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> We currently use -
>
> http://www.systemswatch.com/
>
> Numerous times their alerts have beat out our notifications without 
> false alarms.
> Also, as the reason one purchases such a service, its a backup for our 
> own
> monitoring. We also use Keynote as thats what our customers are used 
> to, and
> also subscribe to. This allows us to se what they see should we need 
> to discuss
> SLA's. Systems Watch is much cheaper than Keynote for those that have 
> actually
> priced out, or subscribe to the service.
>
> All in all, when I get an alert from Systems Watch, I do make way to a 
> console
> more than I would with my own monitoring.
>
> Happy trails,
> Eddy
>
>
> On Mar 5, 2008, at 2:32 PM, Michael Painter wrote:
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>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Darrell Hyde" Sent: Tuesday, 
>> March 04, 2008 7:02 AM
>> Subject: 3rd party network monitoring
>> [snip]
>>
>>> 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
>>
>>
>> Fwiw, http://www.dslreports.com/schedule has a 'Business' monitoring 
>> service (w/graphs) for a buck a week.
>>
>> --Michael
>>
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