I have an app that runs on a networked server. (I'm using VB6)

I'd like to have a user (typically an Admin) using another machine on the network to be able to 'monitor' the remote app, or at least know that it's still running.

As well, there may be multiple copies of the app running on several servers and I'd like to 'monitor' all of them from one remote machine.

I'm considering 3 options and would like some advice on which may work better (and perhaps some code if anyone has done this already)

a) Push - have my Server app 'ping' another app on a specific remote machine by IP address.

b) Pull 1 - have the remote machine 'ping' the Server app by IP address.

c) Pull 2 - have the remote machine find the app by enumerating the running processes of the Server.


Anyone care to let me know which may be better and perhaps how to do it?
Do you have another suggestion?

Thanks....