[136842] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: External sanity checks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Zaid Ali)
Sat Feb 5 19:19:20 2011
From: Zaid Ali <zaid@zaidali.com>
In-Reply-To: <12095298.254.1296786966316.JavaMail.franck@franck-martins-macbook-pro.local>
Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2011 11:19:09 +1100
To: Franck Martin <franck@genius.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Feb 4, 2011, at 1:36 PM, Franck Martin wrote:
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> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Paul Graydon" <paul@paulgraydon.co.uk>
>> To: nanog@nanog.org
>> Sent: Friday, 4 February, 2011 8:39:09 AM
>> Subject: Re: External sanity checks
>> On 02/03/2011 08:04 AM, Philip Lavine wrote:
>>> To all,
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>>> Does any one know a Vendor (NOT Keynote) that can do sanity checks
>>> against your web/smtp/ftp farms with pings, traceroutes, latency
>>> checks as well as application checks (GET, POST, ESMTP, etc)
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>>> Thank you,
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>>> Philip
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>> Slight hijack, I'm interested in the answer to this question, but I'm
>> also wondering about a service that will actually phone you (or is
>> there
>> a reliable text/e-mail->phone call service?) I'd appreciate actually
>> being phoned overnight if something dies drastically to the outside
>> world!
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> A bit different, but if you are looking for something that works a bit =
before the problem becomes visible to the user, check:
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> http://www.avonsys.com/Application+Monitoring
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I used Avonsys before for monitoring. You can have Keynote, Gomez, =
homegrown tool etc but you still need someone with clue on how to =
interpret it, verify alerts, find odd performance problems etc. Contact =
me off list if you want reference.
Zaid=
