[ZODB-Dev] Monitoring ZEO

[Chris McDonough]

This message is mainly for Jim or Jeremy but if anybody else has input, 
I'd love to hear it.

I'd like to be able to monitor a ZEO storage server for "upness" at a 
customer site.  The storage server listens on a TCP port.  I'd like to 
be able to monitor ZEO directly by connecting to it over the equivalent 
of telnet.  Is there any set of commands I could issue in plaintext in a 
telnet session to the ZEO server port that would give a known response 
indicating that the storage server is nominally "ok"?  Or is the best I 
could do just to try to connect to the port and if I'm able to establish 
a connection, to assume that ZEO is ok?

- C