[33984] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Monitoring highly redundant operations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Howard C. Berkowitz)
Thu Jan 25 23:19:34 2001
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From: "Howard C. Berkowitz" <hcb@clark.net>
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>On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Simon Lockhart wrote:
>
>>
>> Indeed. We currently monitor each part of our operation from a monitoring
>> station on our network. Under certain conditions, this can give us both
>> false positives and false negatives:
>>
>Umm... Keynote?
>(http://www.keynote.com)
>
>I find it truly amazing that people don't already diversely
>monitor. Hell, have cronned pings running off your friend's cable modem
>if that's all you can afford, but for christ's sake, a single box colo'd
>in someone else's cage, or a shell at shells.com or nether.net really
>isn't that expensive.
>
>
>Fighting the war against bad networks,
>
>Matthew Devney
>Teamsphere Interactive
Might be interesting to define a set of basic monitoring functions
that independent ISPs can run on each other and share results. Early
warnings could go to a special email.
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