Re: Monitoring NT servers, was paging

["Carl Galgano" <cgalgano@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rob:
How do you check in a CL program to see if the PING is successful.  You
can't do a MONMSG can you?
Carl Galgano
EDI Consulting Services, Inc.
540 Powder Springs Street
Suite C19
Marietta, GA  30064
770-422-2995
mailto: cgalgano@ediconsulting.com
http://www.ediconsulting.com
EDI, Communications and AS400 Technical Consulting

-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Berendt <rob@dekko.com>
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Date: Thursday, August 26, 1999 10:11 AM
Subject: Re: Monitoring NT servers, was paging


>Interesting remark about monitoring NT servers.  We had an NT server that
>locked up a couple of times a day.  We ended up writing a CL program to
ping
>the NT server every x number of minutes.  If two consecutive pings failed
it
>paged us.  We didn't use our paging software for this.  Our paging vendor
has
>an email service, if you want to use it.  For example if my paging number
was
>2195551212 I could send email to 2195551212@epage.arch.com and I'll get the
>page.  And we can use the SNDDST command to send email to there.  See
>http://www.arch.com
>
>I'll be glad when IBM comes up with a DID board for the 400.  Then we can
get
>rid of that NT server.  We use it for inbound Domino faxing.
>
>
>
>
>
>jhall@hillmgt.com on 08/26/99 08:33:36 AM
>Please respond to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com@Internet
>To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com@Internet
>cc:
>Fax to:
>Subject: Re: Pager/ notification system?
>
>Same Here.
>You can send email, page, send to a MSGQ, run programs, etc.  on an
>event or lack of an event (i.e. server program is not running).
>We use it to monitor our network routers/bridges with ping.
>It can also be setup to monitor NT servers (this feature is Extra)
>
>John Hall
>Home Sales Co.
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