[AG-TECH] Monitoring of the Access Grid Services

[Jason Bell]

G'day all

Quick question.  Has anyone implemented any monitoring (particularly using Nagios) any of the Access Grid services...  Examples include the monitoring of the Venue Server and/or Unicast bridges.

I am looking to initially test a particular Venue Server using the simple test of "telnet [Venue Server address] 8000".  But I was thinking that it would be a lot smarter, if you could use the SOAP interface somehow to provide a better testing mechanism.

So my question that I would like to ask, has anyone done anything similar and if so, how did you go about it?  Does anyone has any ideas of better ways to be able to test?

Many thanks in advance,
Jason.

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Jason Bell, B.I.T. (Honours)

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Australian Research Collaboration Service
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