February 2018
Beginner
290 pages
7h 28m
English
This is the simplest kind of monitoring, which marks the object that is being monitored as either up or down. This is generally done using several protocols such as ICMP (ICMP_ECHO) and sometimes even TCP and UDP (or enhanced verification on these).
In most cases, this is done using a poll method, which means the monitoring system sends a probe to the server that is being monitored. If the probe fails a few times, the system is then marked as down. Availability monitoring is agentless and relies on the network stack that is running by default.
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