Network Monitoring Tools

[lance raymond]

On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 09:08 -0500, Ki Song wrote:
> Our company is having some issues with a web hosting provider. The server we
> have with them (at a remote location) crashes ... sometimes more than once a
> week. 
> 
> We are an e-commerce company, so whenever our site is down, we are losing
> orders!
> 
> Is there a network monitoring tool that I can install on a machine within
> our own network that will monitor the server uptime of our server that is at
> a remote location?
> 
> I want a tool that will monitor the server, make sure certain services are
> working, and then, if they are not, to either text message me, or e-mail me.

--  check out big brother (http://www.bb4.org/)  it does just what you
want, seutp the local server on your network, install the bbclient on
the remote machine, then just chk the monitor and on downtime you can
generate emails, etc.