Actually to detect whether it is *running* fetching a page will do the trick. That's what we do here and it works fine. That will NOT detect however if Zope is running, but errors are occuring. I sthat what you really want? Why would looking up a page not do the trick? J.F. -----Original Message----- From: zope-bounces@zope.org [mailto:zope-bounces@zope.org] On Behalf Of robert rottermann Sent: March 30, 2006 1:21 PM To: zope Subject: [Zope] zope and nagios Hi there, I would like to test if zope is running using nagios. I would be gratefull if somebody could could point me to some info how to best do this. I am especially interested to learn what to test to detect a running but not responding zope. Just looking up a page seems not to do the trick. thanks robert