Borgs8472
10-04-2004, 08:52 PM
Not purely a vb idea, but something I could do with.
Our cursed server has been playing up again, going down unexpectedly and returning also unexpectedly.
I was about (admin) but the admin owner wasn't about, and so doesn't know quite what period of outage to complain about.
I bet a hack could be written to do something like ping a remote location and get a response, when it doesn't due to the server not functioning, a log entry created.
e.g
PING AOL.COM @ 00:00 Good
PING AOL.COM @ 00:05 Timed out
PING AOL.COM @ 00:10 Good
etc etc
A more advanced system would stick up an annoucement, or something in the header saying "sorry, the server was down for (X) minutes today from time X to time Y"
That's the VB intergration part really.
The logs would ideally be viewable in the stats section of the admincp.
Thoughts?
Our cursed server has been playing up again, going down unexpectedly and returning also unexpectedly.
I was about (admin) but the admin owner wasn't about, and so doesn't know quite what period of outage to complain about.
I bet a hack could be written to do something like ping a remote location and get a response, when it doesn't due to the server not functioning, a log entry created.
e.g
PING AOL.COM @ 00:00 Good
PING AOL.COM @ 00:05 Timed out
PING AOL.COM @ 00:10 Good
etc etc
A more advanced system would stick up an annoucement, or something in the header saying "sorry, the server was down for (X) minutes today from time X to time Y"
That's the VB intergration part really.
The logs would ideally be viewable in the stats section of the admincp.
Thoughts?