[Nagios-users] monitoring external internet connectivity

2009-06-30 Thread shadih rahman
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. Please

Re: [Nagios-users] monitoring external internet connectivity

2009-06-30 Thread Marc Powell
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

Re: [Nagios-users] monitoring external internet connectivity

2009-06-30 Thread Jayson Broughton
phones. (can't get email if the network is down, eh?) Hope this helps, Jayson Broughton From: shadih rahman [mailto:shadhi...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 1:44 PM To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Nagios-users] monitoring external internet connectivity

Re: [Nagios-users] monitoring external internet connectivity

2009-06-30 Thread Jayson Broughton
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

Re: [Nagios-users] monitoring external internet connectivity

2009-06-30 Thread Mathew Walker
services, etc. Also I use it to monitor our corporate Nagios servers as a sanity check. :-) -- Mat W. - http://www.techadre.com Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:43:57 -0400 From: shadhi...@gmail.com To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Nagios-users] monitoring external internet

Re: [Nagios-users] monitoring external internet connectivity

2009-06-30 Thread Johannes Dagemark
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