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From: Dan Stromberg on 29 Mar 2008 22:13
On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 09:12:37 -0800, rvaede wrote:

> I am trying to code a script to verify if a Unix server is up.
> Has anyone tried doing that by running a ping on a server and
> capturing the output.
>
> I am not sure how to check if the server crashes and its down.

For persistent monitoring, I like to use nagios - but I've heard good
things about zenoss and hope to check it out someday.

For temporary monitoring, I like to use my notify-when-up2 script:
http://stromberg.dnsalias.org/~strombrg/notify-when-up2.html
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