web site monitor?

[bdog]

I have a server at work that I administer. It serves email, webpages, and ftp. Unfortunatly it is on an NT box so it crashes every once in a while(about twice per month). Sometimes I don't notice it immediately and people get upset. Is there any kind of program I could run from my computer at home that would ping the server or something every so often and alert me if it is not up?

[Strip]

There should be some kind of program doing that... but I don't know about any.

But hey, why not install ICQ on both machines? Different UIN of course. Then you would be able to see if the server is online.

[bdog]

Thanks for the suggestion, but I see ICQ as a security risk. I hear stories of people getting hacked through it on a daily basis. I guess I will just keep visitng the page http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif