device monitoring

pinkyorthebrain · n00b Joined: 12 Feb 2004 Posts: 2

I have searched through a bunch of stuff, but have not found exactly what I need. I am needing something that can essentially do a ping test against other machines on the network. if a specifed machine fails to respond, then I need a notification (somehow, prefereablly script out to email....). The issue lies with power brown outs :evil:

on remote equipment and them staying in the off state instead of rebooting. Any suggestions?

mothbitten · n00b Joined: 06 Jan 2003 Posts: 5

how about writing a perl or bash script in a cron job set to execute every few minutes which pings each of the servers and sends you an e-mail if there is no response? That would seem to do what you want.

pinkyorthebrain · n00b Joined: 12 Feb 2004 Posts: 2

I would like to do that, but I am a little weak in the programming area. If I could find a script similar to what I want, I could probably mod it to fit. Thx

Janne Pikkarainen · Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2004 7:06 pm Post subject:

Nagios is a powerful tool for monitoring systems, it can monitor much more than just ping. Then there's Mon which people sometimes have recommended to me, but I'm used to Nagios myself...
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