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<font face="Comic Sans MS" size="3">All,</font> </p>
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<font face="Comic Sans MS" size="3">I'm working on a system/services monitor, and got to wondering about how to best ping a map service without too much overhead. an "I'm Alive" function in the service would be the easiest way to approach it. But that's probably not a viable thing to require. I'm afraid of this getting too complicated when working across services as well, since the possible result types are so varied.</font> </p>
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<font face="Comic Sans MS" size="3">I'm working on a MapServer (with WMS / WFS / KML) service first, but this would likely go to other services as well. We're running GeoMoose, so each layer will be pinged and rated as well.</font> </p>
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<font face="Comic Sans MS" size="3">The Client is simply a self updating HTML page. But I'm wondering about how to set up the actual pinging process, what's the best thing to ask for, that can be readily examined easily in a dynamic fashion, without undue overhead.</font> </p>
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<font face="Comic Sans MS" size="3">Also, if anyone knows of any PERL (or other CGI) type of product for this kind of monitoring I would be interested in taking a look at it.</font> </p>
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<font face="Comic Sans MS" size="3">Thanks</font> </p>
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<font face="Comic Sans MS" size="3">bobb</font> </p>
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