Re: 3rd party network monitoring

["John A. Kilpatrick" <john () hypergeek net>]

On Wed, 5 Mar 2008, Tom Sands wrote:

> When we did get a hold of someone, they mentioned they could support 
> simple ICMP requests.

To them "simple" means it's just a ping check.  They won't 
montior/graph/care about latency.

I was pondering creating a "smoke ping collective".  Get a bunch of guys 
to agree to run smokeping and monitor each other.  That's a great tool for 
visualizing changes in latency and works just as well with ICMP as with 
HTTP.

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