Server monitor and notification

[Guest]

Hi

I need some idea, Is there any way to write vb code to monitor server
activity and
if server fails send out email to admin.


thanks
Kalyan

 

[Guest]

Kalyan,

Are you using VB.NET or VB6?

 

[Guest]

Jorge

VB.NET, the piece of code should reside on memory and able to send
notification when server failed.

 

[Guest]

Ususally a windows service running on another machine would be used to
monitor a server. You can't have a service running on the server be
responsible for sending the notification because the service will most likely
not be running if the server itself is down.

 

[Guest]

Absolutely I agree with you, My idea is to run a code one server and going to
monitor another webserver.

 

[Andrei Pociu]

How about pinging the server every x seconds?

Absolutely I agree with you, My idea is to run a code one server and going
to
monitor another webserver.

 

[Guest]

Andrei is right, using the .NET "Process" class you can easily invoke the
"Ping" command and redirect the output to your windows service, which can
then send email notifications if it gets the "Request timed out" in the
redirected output stream.

Check out: http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/LaunchProcess.asp