RE: how to tell if website hosted on iseries is down

["Jeff Day" <Jeff.Day@xxxxxxxx>]

That is what we decided here too.  We currently use www.serviceuptime.com for an off-site (free) monitor service.  We felt external monitoring would notify us whether it was a comm, subsystem/job, power problem or ... etc, compared to just checking from the system i.
 
Good Luck.

> > > "tim" <tim2006@xxxxxxxxxxx> 6/30/2008 11:53 AM >>>
I would like to do something offsite if possible. I don't want to rely on
testing from the iseries since that might be the problem. 


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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jeff Day
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Subject: Re: how to tell if website hosted on iseries is down

Which do you mean?

There are services on the internet (free and pay) that can monitor a url,
and email you when its availability drops and comes back up. (for instance
an isp/comm problem)

Or... do you mean monitoring the qhttpsvr subsystem to see if the
webinstance jobs are running?

> > > "tim" <tim2006@xxxxxxxxxxx> 6/30/2008 11:25 AM >>>
Our iSeries is hosting a website (apache). 



I would like to know when the website is down. 



What would be the best way to handle this?