Server Status Tracking.....

How do I integrate that into a page?

[SEOMike]

Hello-

We need a way to give the status of our servers on our homepage. We would like to have the name of the server and then either a red "light" yellow "light" or green "light" beside it to show that server's status. Is this possible to do in real time on an HTML page? Maybe a Java app?

It's such a neat thing to have as a hosting provider, but we're not 100% sure where to start. I'm hoping WW can help save a little research time.

[Sarvesh Nagpal]

Let me admit that I am not into webhosting business and so I am just having an attempt on it..

Normally, not knowing anything special, I would just ping all the servers through a script and on the basis of response I get I will show green or red image.

[SEOMike]

I would just ping all the servers through a script and on the basis of response I get I will show green or red image.

So I guess a JavaScript then? I'm an internet marketer by trade so I'm not that familiar with this type of thing. I'm merely helping advise our programmers on how to set things up, and a few ideas have been thrown around regarding this server status thing.

Does anyone have / know of a site that does this?

[karmov]

Big Brother does the ping thing very well. If you're looking for something that's already done. But it really depends what you mean by "status" of your servers. Whether they're pingable is deffinitely an important status indicator, but there are other important ones such as memory load and CPU load. Both of these can be checked at the command line, so it would be a matter of a couple of shell scripts, a database or file that they write to and some limits to indicate what value would make it green, yellow or red.

These are just ideas. As I said, it really depends on what you would like to know to determine a server's "status"

[SEOMike]

Whether they're pingable is definitely an important status indicator, but there are other important ones such as memory load and CPU load

BigBrother is a great looking program! I can't wait to get it running... I just don't know if I can integrate it's results into my company home page

As for server status, we are going to try to take the three important indicators (memory, CPU load, and ping time) to factor the displayed status.