[sclug] Monitor a Windows box with a Linux box?

[Tom Chance]

Ahoy,

On Wednesday 12 Oct 2005 12:46, Scott Rixon wrote:
> Could I use one of my Linux boxes to keep an eye on my Windows boxes?
> Mainly I am looking for some reporting if a service falls over.
> Exchange/SQL etc.
>
> Anything out there that might do it? Just thinking out loud really!

You could just write a shell script that tries to open a connection with each 
service, and then run it as a cron job... not fancy but it'd do the job :)

Regards,
Tom

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