Feb 16-17
Lots of severe power fluctuations over the last few days
Even with surge protectors and a UPS it keeps tripping the machines poweroff sensor
So this server may be offline for many hours at a time over the next few days

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 PDF icon is free to download.