I would like to create a webpage that will display if a server is up or down. The servers are all Windows however some are 2008 and some are 2003, they are hosted inside different networks at various clients. I would like to setup a webpage with a matrix showing the status of each server. I have been looking into SNMP to do this however is seems to complicated for what I want to setup.
How would I go about checking if a server is up and maybe even sending out a notification if a server goes down all while displaying it on a webpage on a VPS LAMP stack.
Thanks.