Forum Moderators: phranque
I was wondering if anyone here might be able to help me here. I have a web-server running on XP machine and on that machine, i also have mailserver running there.
But here is my question. Since my machine can get frozen or apache web server can go down for unknown reasons, i'd like to know if it's possible to be notified when the web server is down.
I know that some would probably think a new computer might be an option or buy a third party software program. But i just want to know if there is a script or free program or something that would do the job.
It'd be great if we can detect whenever the mailserver fails to function.
though you would have to run this on another box and it couldn't be a windows box
it also really deoends on how you would like to monitor, you need to use another box to do it
you could write some scripts to test the mail server on the box in question I guess but that is seldom very foolproof.
if the mail server is down and the script to check uses that mailserver then it's a bit hard to send you a notification ;)
