[clue] Downtime.

[Chris Hirsch]

On 9/4/14 10:44 AM, David L. Anselmi wrote:
> Dennis pointed out that the server was down last night.  It's been rebooted and is running again but
> it may have been down for a couple of weeks.
>
> If you tried to send email to the list while it was down I think you'd have a bounce to tell you
> that it failed.
>
> So I'd like to set up a process on my server that will tell me if the web site doesn't respond.
> Seems like that will be easy to script (probably a one liner with curl or wget).  But before I do
> that, is there a generic solution that can use instead?
>
> I don't want a full blown nagios type system, just something lightweight.
>
For me my simple solution and redundant to Nagios is the Network Tools 
app for Android. You can put in a site/host/ip and have it ping or TCP 
connect to it every X.