Re: External sanity checks

[Franck Martin <franck () genius com>]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Paul Graydon" <paul () paulgraydon co uk>
> To: nanog () nanog org
> Sent: Friday, 4 February, 2011 8:39:09 AM
> Subject: Re: External sanity checks
> On 02/03/2011 08:04 AM, Philip Lavine wrote:
> > To all,
> >
> > Does any one know a Vendor (NOT Keynote) that can do sanity checks
> > against your web/smtp/ftp farms with pings, traceroutes, latency
> > checks as well as application checks (GET, POST, ESMTP, etc)
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
> > Philip
> Slight hijack, I'm interested in the answer to this question, but I'm
> also wondering about a service that will actually phone you (or is
> there
> a reliable text/e-mail->phone call service?) I'd appreciate actually
> being phoned overnight if something dies drastically to the outside
> world!

A bit different, but if you are looking for something that works a bit before the problem becomes visible to the user, 
check:

http://www.avonsys.com/Application+Monitoring