Mark Dickinsons Tutorials

Polling and Health Checking a Web Server using PERL

A quich walkthrough on Why and How you would want to use PERL to monitor the health of any customer facing web servers.

The why is pretty obvious, the how I eventually found out how to do; so I have just created this document as a reference as I will probably need it again in future.

The tutorial on Polling a Web Server using PERL is free to download.