Re: Checking Up On You...

Hello,

A windows program that works pretty well for this is Site/C from www.locutu=
scodeware.com.  It's only $20, will monitor multiple sites and email/page =
when they're down or have changed. =20

Back when I was working more on linux, I also wrote a few perl scripts =
that used a combination of wget/diff and/or nmap to do checks on sites =
both to see if they were up and to check for page changes/corruption.  =
These worked well, but were extra work to write.=20

HTH,

Doug Dossett
Webmaster
Bastyr University
http://www.bastyr.edu

>>> Wendy Richardson <wwrich(at)ddix7.monsanto.com> 08/29/00 01:12PM >>>
At 11:07 AM 08/28/2000 -0700, Ben Ocean wrote:
>Hi;
>One of my client's sites was down for 2 days before I found out about it
>:( There's gotta be a program out there that will check my index pages =
and
>email me if one's returning an error message, but I don't even know how =
to
>search the shareware sites for it! Please advise.
=20
then, Judith C. Kallos and several other people suggested:
> Here is one to check out: <http://www.netwhistle.com>

But....the web sites that I want to monitor are behind my corporate
firewall, and not accessible from the "outside".  Is there anything
good out there that I can run on a local server (either Windows or=20
UNIX)?

I have written my own monitoring software.  I ping all machines, and=20
use telnet to retrive one specific page from the web servers.  I would
like to see if there is anything better than my "homemade" system...
(without costing a lot of money.....)

I also have problems with sites that require a userid/password.
A co-worker provided me with a header file that I run through telnet
to get to one of these sites.  The critical line started "Authorization:=20=

Basic".  Unfortunately, the header file went to a specific dated page
that=20
has since disappeared.  That particular co-worker has also moved to=20
another company in another state.  I tried to just replace the "GET"
line,=20
but it gives me an error about Authorization.=20

I would really like some more information about this "Authorization:"
line.
Where did it come from, and how can I generate a new one?

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