Internet Connectivity Monitoring

[Giles Coochey]

Hi List,

As part of our Internet Connectivity monitoring I monitor a set of
websites on the Internet from a diverse number of locations
geographically.

There are some issues with this:

(a) I have to avoid sites that use Content Delivery Systems such as
Akamai, because as we host such boxes ourselves the websites actually
load from local servers which we host rather than the intended
geographic location. Most large sites such as www.yahoo.com and
www.google.com use these content delivery systems.
(b) I have to avoid small sites which often go down due to lack of
redundancy in their implementation.
(c) I have to avoid sites which might get pretty annoyed that I'm
pulling their homepage once every 10-15 minutes just to see if I'm
getting good access.

I would like to hear from others on the list as to what they do to check
Internet Connectivity and whether they do any smart stuff to include
multiple connectivity checks as a single service check.

What do you do?

Thanks

Giles

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