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How to monitor wesites. How do you know when a website is down.

Can someone point me into the right direction in website monitoring software... Only if you have used the software before.

For example just say a website goes down... The program realises this and sends an email. And does the software have to reside on the same server as the hosted website.

Even vb dode would be welcomed


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Alchemy Eye doesn't require to run on the webserver. MIcrosoft Operations Manager requires an agent on the webserver, but can run itself on another. Both are able to send email alerts.
I have a perl script that checks on all my servers ever 30 mins. It sends me an email, and is run using the cron deamon.

Copy can be provided if thats of any use. Can you provide details of the operating system that you are using, then people here are more likely to be able to get you an appropriate script.

Hope that helps:)
Look into "webtrends" software
A real cheap-o solution for windows 2000, IIS based platforms is perfmon.

Perfmon comes with windows 2000 and can be used to moniter web service uptime, NIC traffic, DB uptime, etc.

Bear in mind that this is not what this software was designed for, so it's not as friendly as a true monitoring application.
Microsoft Operations Monitor uses perfmon counters as it's base.

For even more power, NetIQ pulls together with MOM and perfmon to create a more robust monitoring tool.