[ZODB-Dev] Monitoring ZEO

[Jeremy Hylton]

The ZEO protocol isn't amenable to sending simple text strings using
telnet.  The wire protocol is binary and consists of sized messages --
a binary length plus the actual message body.  The first first message
has a plaintext body, but all the rest of the messages contained
pickled data of one sort or another.

It would be possible to hand craft the necessary first message and
send it.  Let me know if you'd like to try that.

It seems simpler -- from my perspective -- to attempt open a
ClientStorage.  If that succeeds, the server is up.  Would that be
possible? 

Jeremy