[thelist] Website monitoring software assistance?

patrick pms at stoutstreet.com
Sat Apr 3 09:39:26 CST 2004


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patrick sanders
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Jonathan wrote:

>Howdy List!
>
>We're looking to set up a free website uptime monitoring service for our
>customers, but I'm not really finding too much out there to help us out.  Of
>course I've looked at the uptime software in the marketplace, but it's
>really designed for an IT team looking to monitor groups of services or
>groups of services.
>
>We want to set up a service to do website monitoring.  Things like:
>
>http
>httpd
>pop3
>smtp
>ftp
>imap
>telnet
>dnsa
>dnsns
>match
>Ping
>
>And we're hoping to do it on an open source budget.  Right?  Well, I know
>it's nuts but there must be something out there that's designed more as a
>service than for an engineering department.  We're hoping to set up a free
>version of what these companies do:
>
>http://www.watchmouse.com/en/index.php
>http://www.nmsalert.com/
>http://netwhistle.com/overview/default.aspx
>
>We've basically got a very large network of server computers running at 99%
>unused capacity (distributed DNS mostly), and figure it would be a good way
>to promote our business while giving back to the Net.  
>
>Is there anything out there?  We speak Java, PERL, and PHP, Unix (Linux,
>FreeBSD) as well as several page languages, but definitely no Windows and
>very little Cold Fusion.
>
>Thanks in advance!
>
>Jonathan
>
>
>  
>


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