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PingPartner is a program that allows server administrators to check on their machines uptime as viewed from remote machines around the world. The program sends a simple "ping" to check to see if the server responds. It can use a FQDN (Fully Qualifed Domain Name) or IP address as the name of the machine to check. You can use this program to monitor your upstream connection, but for best results, you will partner with someone on a different Tier1 provider to check the availability of your servers on a different backbone. You might want to find a couple of different people on many different backbones. For example, I wrote the program to monitor my upstream provider. My Tier1 is Teleglobe (by way of 2 intermediate Tier2's). I'd like to watch my availability to people on, say, Sprint, UUNET, and Savis. I'll try and find someone on those networks to run the program PingPartner, with my server names and I'll run PingPartner to check their server names (Hence the "Partner" part of the name). They don't have to be directly connected to the Tier1 (just like I'm not). The idea is that, through co-operation, we can all get better info on how our servers are seen by people around the world. I want to check that pingpartner.com, www.pingpartner.com, ftp.pingpartner.com, mail.pingpartner.com or 205.210.140.30 are all visible to people everywhere. I could also check on router status or anything else that has an IP address or FQDN. Features: - Can ping many sites, at varying intervals (minimum, 1 minute). - Can output graphs for the past hour, day and week (month and year coming later). - Output can be placed in any directory on the local network, for each site. - The data for the charts never grows in size (there are txt files for each site for each time interval: hour, day,...).
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Windows Software
Albina Merfyn - I find this to be really easy to use. I can...
