I have a script that pings servers in a list and sends out an email if one is offline. When it comes back online it sends out another email saying its online.
Problem:
Servers get loaded down and timeout during pings and falsely report being offline.
I have tried settings delays and have it not act until a second failed ping has occured but I am using the default ping on both of 4000ms or 4 seconds.
Solution:
Is there a better way to see if a server is down instead of pinging?
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