New member and a question

C. Bensend benny at bennyvision.com
Sat Aug 7 17:15:19 CEST 2004


> And I asked myself a question, sorry, not really technical, but legal or
> deontological: could my web hosting company (which is NOT my employer) say
> something against the fact that I'm using Nagios (or any monitoring
> system)
> to monitor my site (my own domain  and only IP) ? could they consider it
> as
> an intrusion ?
> I just monitor the ping, HTTP, FTP, pop3 and smtp

I suppose they could complain, but aren't they _providing those services
to the public_ anyway?

Nagios can get a little noisy in the logs, but they could probably filter
that out...

Benny


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                                                  -- Mr. Corman, "Scrubs"


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