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
Shadhin,
I had our nagios ping google.com for awhile, but if something happens to the
DNS server internally then it gave a false reading saying the internet was
down when it was a DNS issue. Eventually I figured I could ping my ISP's IP
address instead of hostname, and that seemed to work well.
that's
monitoring logs.
Jayson
-Original Message-
From: Marc Powell [mailto:m...@ena.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 2:05 PM
To: Nagios Users Mail-list
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] monitoring external internet connectivity
On Jun 30, 2009, at 2:43 PM, shadih rahman wrote:
All,
What
do you host your website internally? if not, ping that host and or do an HTTP
check of it.
one thing i highly recommend is using a small little VPS ($10/mo even) to do
some basic monitoring. I use one personally for testing and to monitor my
websites, friends websites, our email and dns
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
