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Hey there! I’m excited to announce we’ve released another new iPhone app! This one is called What’s Goin Down and it’s a pocket network monitor for network administrators.

Years ago, I made my living writing network apps, and worked for a network bandwidth company called Opnix. It was the dot-com days, and we had an awesome datacenter that hosted our customer’s servers. Anyway, as part of that, I got to know a lot about networking, and spent a lot of time with network admins. When I saw the iPhone, I thought “Wow, what a perfect little portable network monitoring platform!” So I put together “What’s Goin Down”.

The premise is simple, you configure your TCP based servers in What’s Goin Down, then, whenever you want to check the status of your servers, you fire up the app, and it goes out and connects to each of them. If it’s successful, it shows a green checkmark; if not, it shows a red exclamation mark. You can configure your web server, your mail server, your ssh server etc.

Sure, there’s things like Nagios and so forth, which will happily send you email alerts and things. Think of “What’s Goin Down” as just another tool in the network admin’s arsenal.