Anyone know how to do a port monitoring script? 1

[farley99]

Something like

if connect('162.42.34.128, 80){
;
}
else
mail("system@admin.com","SITE DOWN","SITE DOWN"

 

[sleipnir214]

If you are monitoring ports 80, 21, or 443, and if you have a newer version of PHP, and if your php.ini has allow_url_fopen set to "on", then you can use fopen() to do the checking. Another options is to use CURL, if that has been made available in your PHP installation.

You could also use socket programming. Check out the example code here:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.sockets.php

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