Alternative to Ping

[Hugo van der Kooij]

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.

Actually. Whatever works for me.

But anyone blocking ICMP but allowing SSH needs to re-evaluate the 
security policies.

And if they only allow SSH selectively they can add the proper ICMP 
traffic as well.

Hugo.

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