On Jun 30, 2009, at 2:43 PM, shadih rahman wrote: > All, > What is the best way to check if our network has connection to > commodity internet or not. What I am trying to achieve is to ensure > internal network has connection to Internet. One thing is to ping > google check. Is this a good idea or can someone suggest a better > way to do this.
It is never a good idea to steal the resources of some third party for your own purposes, no matter how infinite you think those resources to be. If you and hundreds, thousands or millions of other people all think it's just fine to ping Google all the time, Google takes the brunt of that resource hit. I would recommend that you poll your router's snmp tables to get interface status (ifStatus, ifOperStatus). Alternately, place a test device or purchase a small colo server somewhere outside your network that you can use as the target for your tests; or work with someone with similar needs to arrange permission to ping devices on each other's network. -- Marc ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
