Comment Re: sooo... (Score 1) 19
It is NOT a big deal or shift to monitor services on servers to see if the server is capable of actually doing work. You have been able to do it with OSS tools for decades. Big Brother, anyone? Doesn't only ping, although it does that too ofc to see if the machine is even responding before doing other tests. If they weren't already doing this, they are grossly incompetent, period.
Hopefully the real story is that they came up with a better way to do it than what they were doing before. That seems likeliest.