Service Availability (Web Server)
 

I am running a simple web server (WinXP and Apache, with mail, ftp, etc, etc) I want to be able to create a home page with server status on so that I can check (remotely) if services are running or not. (if I can do this then I can kick them when they fail!!!)

Does anyone know of a "FREE" application/script that can do the checks for me? - If it only creates a text file with up/down even if one per service this is fine as I can script around the information to produce the desired output.

Services I'd like to check are : HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, SMTP, POP3, IMAP, MYSQL, MSSQL and possibly a few others...

I am guessing it'd need to run something against a port number and then capture the output?

Any ideas welcome (or a solution would be great)...

Re: Service Availability (Web Server)
 

Would this this be of any use to you?

Re: Service Availability (Web Server)
 

Spot on, top find...
I can amend the scripts to perform exactly the task I need
:tu: :tu:

Re: Service Availability (Web Server)
 

Another, possibly easier option (assuming you have at least one Windows PC on the network) is to run a little program called "Servers Alive" (http://www.serversalive.com/salive/features.asp) .

This program can check email servers (POP3 and IMAP), Web servers, streaming servers (Windows Media, Quicktime and Real), Database servers (Oracle and MS SQL). It can be customised for other servers.

If something should happen, it can attempt to restart the affect service, or it can contact you via email, pager, SMS, ICQ, MSN or Aim. It can also update a WAP or HTML page for you.

The free version can also log any failures to an ODBC database.

The only restriction is you can only set 10 items to monitor in the free version.

Re: Service Availability (Web Server)
 

Cheers SCASTLE, the script in the 1st response was just the ticket, I can script everything else around it - Although I do like the stats etc with serversalive - Goes off to look at graphics handling in php...

Many thanks again