Re: Monitoring highly redundant operations

["Howard C. Berkowitz" <hcb () clark net>]

> 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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