Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Re: [BLUG] Bad Weather? Geek Play Time

On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 03:45:21PM -0500, Kirk Gleason wrote:
> Aside from the obvious, I'm trying to come up with creative ways to
> let me know if we lose power at work. No external Nagios for me, so if
> my mail server or firewall goes down before anything else, I get no
> notice.

Kirk,

Pingdom (http://pingdom.com) is a pay service, but they "also offer a
free account that lets you monitor one website and includes 20 SMS
alerts."

I use it for monitoring my personal web server (via ICMP) and it works
wonderfully.

--
Jeremy L. Gaddis


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