If you have an external office (or even your home PC) you could setup one of
the free monitoring solutions (in fact there may be some out there that are
SaaS) to monitor some critical internal piece. Spiceworks has a free solution
but I haven’t had a chance to set it up yet to check it out. I’m sure there
are others as well, and you really only need to check a couple of things to
know that your connection is down. Hmm, wonder if there’s a phone based one
that could ping something periodically? No email/SMS to worry about, just a
direct alert on your phone. ☺
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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Beckers, Shawn (IT Services)
Sent: Monday, May 18, 2015 3:13 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] External monitoring?
We use a service called Mailive! from Knowledge Front for external availability
monitoring of our mail servers. I believe they also do some things with web
server availability monitoring as well.
https://www.knowledgefront.com/
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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
