[102883] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 3rd party network monitoring
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John A. Kilpatrick)
Thu Mar 6 17:16:06 2008
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 14:10:45 -0800 (PST)
From: "John A. Kilpatrick" <john@hypergeek.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <47CEA7D1.5050007@rackspace.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Wed, 5 Mar 2008, Tom Sands wrote:
> When we did get a hold of someone, they mentioned they could support
> simple ICMP requests.
To them "simple" means it's just a ping check. They won't
montior/graph/care about latency.
I was pondering creating a "smoke ping collective". Get a bunch of guys
to agree to run smokeping and monitor each other. That's a great tool for
visualizing changes in latency and works just as well with ICMP as with
HTTP.
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