Am Dienstag, den 04.03.2008, 12:02 -0500 schrieb Darrell Hyde:
In light of the recent major outages experienced by XO and Abovenet, I have become very interested in finding a 3rd party vendor to monitor the availability of my network from a variety of locations.
I've looked at keynote / redalert, but oddly enough they don't seem to be able to monitor simple ICMP round-trip times - they (or at least the sales folk that I've spoken with) insist on checking the status of a TCP port or the response time of a web server.
Keynote should be able to monitor simple icmp echo requests. Last time i worked with their product, i was able either to monitor our network with icmp echo requests or measure the performance of our web-farm with special URLs. Anyhow, as i grabbed for any provider for this case, keynote seems to be the only good one with reliable values. Regards Thomas -- Thomas Kuehling TK2325-RIPE