thingwarbler
Perch
After Sunday's maintenance window my VPS server came back up with a crappy IIS service -- some sites were okay, others just hung. I had to wait for a client to call me to point this out before I realized what was going on, and b/c of the nature of the problem I had to get jodohost tech support's help in troubleshooting the issue (always great tech support, of course, but nicer to not have the trouble in the first place).
I'd like to be able to sleep even on nights when my VPS server is in the shop for a service overhaul, so my question is this: does anyone know of a good tool that would monitor IIS and other services on the server and send out some kind of ping (SMS, email, carrier pigeon) to alert me that my server is behaving badly? I appreciate that a server-based service can't fire if the server is completely busted, but if it's running on two cylinders perhaps an OS-level app could still do the job?
I've got a couple of sites set up with http-based site monitors, but those things misfire all the time, so not really as reliable as a server-level service.
I'd like to be able to sleep even on nights when my VPS server is in the shop for a service overhaul, so my question is this: does anyone know of a good tool that would monitor IIS and other services on the server and send out some kind of ping (SMS, email, carrier pigeon) to alert me that my server is behaving badly? I appreciate that a server-based service can't fire if the server is completely busted, but if it's running on two cylinders perhaps an OS-level app could still do the job?
I've got a couple of sites set up with http-based site monitors, but those things misfire all the time, so not really as reliable as a server-level service.