[GLLUG] gnip (server monitoring program)

[Ben Pfaff]

Marshal Newrock <marshal at simons-rock.edu> writes:

> In my spare time (of which I've had plenty) recently, I've been working on
> an idea I've had.  At my previous job, we had a program which detected
> machines down by pinging them.  On a few separate occasions, it failed to
> detect a machine down because, while the machine was crashed with a bad
> hard drive or kernel panic, it was still responding to pings.

As an aside, it seems to be little-known that a halted Linux
kernel still has a functioning network stack.  It will still
route packets (if configured to do so), and, yes, respond to
pings.

Your procedure sounds like a clever solution.
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