Besides, not being able to connect ot a server does not mean the server (or all servers in the site) are down. So what will happen to your logging. It could hav ...
I've worked in server administration and networking for about 15 years. I've never really had any problem explaining to another network engineer why I need a specific port opened since they know me a ...
A downside to having it setup your way (distributed remote host monitors reporting a status change to a central host monitor) would be that a host monitor client machine could not notify the main host ...