You either monitor from inside out….or outside in. If it is inside out you want to do, then a cable modem makes sense. It’s cheap, you use it to send sms’s and you got a second line if your primary goes down. Not saying it could replace your primary but it will provide some functionality for you.
Or you get an outside service to measure from the outside in, like pingdom. https://www.pingdom.com/ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Eric Brouwer Sent: Monday, May 18, 2015 2:29 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] External monitoring? I guess I don't understand the cable recommendation. I'm not looking for out-of-band connectivity. I'm looking for something that could send me an alert (email, text, etc.) if we lose external communication to our data center. On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 2:14 PM, Erik Goldoff <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: yeah, I would have recommended a POTS line (Plain Old Telephone Service) phone line for modem, but they are barely less expensive than a small dsl/cable, and at much more limited speeds On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 1:58 PM, J- P <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: A modem can send sms , although a inexpensive dsl/cable (as mentioned) would not be that much more expensive, and provide a lot more benefit. ________________________________ Date: Mon, 18 May 2015 13:24:03 -0400 Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] External monitoring? From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> inexpensive DSL/Broadband to the data center as an 'emergency' supplemental circuit is pretty affordable in most cases and comes in handy many times, out of band of revenue dependent main circuits. On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 1:19 PM, Eric Brouwer <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Greetings, I used to be part of the old Lyris/Sunbelt community, but I have been out of IT administration for several years. I was a PM in that time, and just recently came back to IT. A situation arose this weekend where I could use your advice. We use SolarWinds for network, server, and application monitoring, and it works very well for us. Our core switch went down this weekend, severing all external communications, so SolarWinds could not send alerts to external resources. Do you use any kind of remote external monitoring that would send an alert if communications go down? Thank you! Eric
