Control Channel Heartbeat(s)

[Dean Sauer]

For my setup I need to come up with a means to have a "heartbeat" to
detect that the control channel (CC) are active.

I am going to keep this short to see what others might be doing in re
a CC heartbeat detector.

For now, I will add that any solution is Linux only... and a note I do
a SDRT heartbeat check via a custom BASH script, but if the CC fails,
Icecast just pumps out dead air... sigh...

So is any one doing any sort of CC monitoring for heartbeat check???

Thanks!