Alternative to Ping

[Patrick Morris]

Hi Corey!

On Fri, 20 Jul 2007, Corey Mosher wrote:

> If my hardware and software firewalls block ping requests, what do you 
> guys suggest as an alternative to ping to determine that a server is up 
> and running?  I intend to eventually setup check_by_ssh checks for each 
> server for various things like hard disk space, etc but I was wondering 
> if there was something else that might be good for just checking that a 
> system is up and running.

Without knowing what you *can* reach to determine if a host is up, I
couldn't say. Sounds like check_ssh is an option, though.

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