[PMX:#] Check services for site(s) hosted on multiple servers

[Collins, Steve]

We have a situation where a number of web sites are hosted across several servers (mirror copies).  A load balancer hands off to one of the servers based on present load per server.  What we want to do is check the HTTP and ColdFusion health on each of the servers for each of the sites.  We have services set up that can check the services on an individual box, but not across boxes, as our hosts.cfg file is unhappy about us naming more than one service the same.

So, illustrated, what we'd like is:

site1.industry.gov.au on server1 check_http
site1.industry.gov.au on server2 check_http
site1.industry.gov.au on server1 check_coldfusion
site1.industry.gov.au on server2 check_coldfusion

site2.industry.gov.au on server1 check_http
site2.industry.gov.au on server2 check_http
site2.industry.gov.au on server1 check_coldfusion
site2.industry.gov.au on server2 check_coldfusion

site3.industry.gov.au on server1 check_http
site3.industry.gov.au on server2 check_http
site3.industry.gov.au on server1 check_coldfusion
site3.industry.gov.au on server2 check_coldfusion

Is there a non-dumb way to approach this?

Steve
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Stephen Collins
Web Development Section
eBusiness Division
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Department of Industry, Tourism and Resources 
Level 12, 20 Allara Street, Canberra City ACT 2600
GPO Box 9839, Canberra ACT 2601

E steve.collins at industry.gov.au
P +61 2 62137193
C +61 410 680722
F +61 2 62136227


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