Re: [VANILLA-LIST:3115] Monitoring Netrek Services

[Karthik Arumugham <karthik@arumugham.com>]

Can you have remote probes? It would be interesting to put some ping
probes remotely. This could be used to see if the server is lagging at
specific times of the day, or to check against when people email you and
complain about lag.

As for seeing if the server's actually up, this might be difficult. There
can be cases where strange problems occur and you can connect to the
server, but can't join a team, or everyone instantly ghostbusts, etc. But
just connecting to port 2591 should tell you in general if it's up.

On Wed, 3 May 2000, Bob Tanner wrote:

> I am slowing moving away from Solstice Domain Manager and to an open source
> network monitoring tool call NetSaint <http://www.netsaint.org/>. 
> 
> I am finding NetSaint to be more flexible, better reporting and more
> customizable (hey, it's open source!).
> 
> One of the nice things is you can write monitoring agents for specific
> services. For instance, a irc agent can tell number of users currently online,
> max users, channels, etc.
> 
> So, I am wondering what would be a good netrek agent? What should it report?
> 
> I have the ping agent running against continuum now, so I can tell if the box
> is up network-wise.
> 
> Is the agent as simple as telnetting to port 2591?
> 
> What is necessary to determine that netrek server is up and running?
> 
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