Hi all,

Some handy new features have been added to QWK.Mon, the host monitoring service I'm developing.

Complete host performance logging is now online, including graphs and concise downtime reports. The graphs will reveal if and when a server or network is operating beyond capacity, and the downtime reports tell you the time ranges of any downtime. (You don't have to sift through a bunch of redundant entries; QWK.Mon will just show you when there is a status change.)

If you're not already registered, try it - it's free. The site's at:

http://www.qwkmon.com

You should probably make it so you can't see other server's information.

showdowns.php?hostid=[num] :)

Shouldn't be too hard to do at all!

Hey, did you just fix that? :) Fast!

Actually, the access checking on that script was only temporarily disabled... I was doing some maintenance and needed to be able to quickly scan through several example result sets. :)

There is access checking on anything that involves data modification, and most everything that involves display.

Ah alright :)

Looks like a pretty good service, need any help developing on it?

I have it pretty well under control for now, but thanks for the offer. :)

Umm... I think you need to allow for other hosts besides www for those that have several servers, ie. allow ns.blah.com, ns2.blah.com and so on...

[Edited by Dylan on 02-13-2001 at 05:02 PM]

Right now the system only checks HTTP services, but other services will be added soon. (Thanks for the idea of checking DNS services - that would be easy enough to do.)

umm... I wasn't truely referring to DNS, actually HTTP.

Most servers have the ns setup as http as well.

You see, I might have all my sites on one server but my clients on several. Now to check that the sites are up, I'll have to list one of my clients sites, which I don't want to do.... see what I'm getting at?

Dylan,

No, I don't quite understand what you're asking. What do you need beyond the ability to define several hosts, and monitoring for those hosts?

NOTE: False pages? heehee... I had all these emails flocking my e-mail box and for the life of me I couldn't figure out what was wrong with my server because I knew it was up.

You quick... I've set a ns for DNS expirmental. We'll see how it goes.

You see, you might have, http://www.domain.com, sub.domain.com, hello.domain.com, ns.domain.com, they all hosts aren't they? There is no true way of knowing whether it is a mail server or DNS server that you are monitoring. So basically, all you need to get rid of is allowing "www.only.com" to "anything.domain.com" and it should work.


Does anybody else agree or dis-agree with me?

Dylan,

That's why I was confused - you *can* put in hello.domain.com or whatever.domain.com. There are no restrictions on the hostname. (Well, there is one - it must be a valid name that resolves via DNS.)

Ok, so the only thing not allowed is ns?

I tried your DNS expirmental, and well it doesn't work yet, let me know when it does.

Dylan,

No, any valid hostname is allowed. If you have a valid hostname that isn't accepted by the system, let me know, and I'll look into it.

How did you determine that DNS monitoring isn't working?

Well, I tried to enter ns3.domain.com and it shouted not a valid host, but ns.domain.com works.

From the time I setup my host for DNS expiremental, and set the notifaction, I kept on getting emails that the server failed to respond properly. So I turned it off, and checked the graph a few hours later and still it was down, although the server was up.

Dylan,

What's the actual name of the DNS server you're checking? I assume you're not actually trying 'ns.domain.com' and 'ns3.domain.com'.

Well, I deleted the 1.

I have http://www.hostyard.com setup (http), I was going to add ns3.hostay.com (the one I deleted, DNS expiremental) and then ns.hostay.net (haven't had a chance yet).

I tried looking up ns3.hostay.com from here, and I got no result. Is that name actually set up in DNS? (I can look up ns.hostay.net just fine.)

Go to http://ns3.hostay.com in your browser, it's there, and there are quite a bunch of domains running off it, same as ns.hostay.com and ns.hostay.net which I've just added. I deleted http://www.hostyard.com

Nope, I can't get to ns3.hostay.com from a browser. I queried both authoritative servers for hostay.com - ns.hostay.com and ns.hostay.net - and neither of them have any A or CNAME records for ns3.hostay.com.

As near as I can tell, that's not a valid hostname.

Anybody else?



[Edited by Travis on 02-14-2001 at 09:53 PM]

Travis, I setup, again, ns3.hostay.com as DNS expiremental and guess what... it works now! I see life!

I wonder why it wouldn't take it as http?

Dylan,

See my last post - the name 'ns3.hostay.com' doesn't seem to exist.

We probably should take any further discussion off the board, although it's nice to keep the topic on top. :)