[102867] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 3rd party network monitoring
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Drew Linsalata)
Tue Mar 4 12:21:31 2008
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From: Drew Linsalata <drew@gothambus.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 12:15:15 -0500
To: Darrell Hyde <dhyde@hostmysite.com>
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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
>
