I did this just using cron and a simple bash script to log ping failures. I ended up getting a six month credit from my isp because I had documented all my outages. In my case the network was failing when the outside temp went above 86F.
On May 24, 2011, at 4:43 PM, John Mort wrote: > Can anyone recommend a tool to track network uptime? Some work was done on > one of my building's network connection and users are reporting that there > are intermittent outages. I'd like some way of pinging a location once a > second or minute or so and tracking that over a long period of time like a > few days or a week to see if there are any patterns to the outages and how > long/often they are occurring. > > -- > John D. Mort > http://john.mort.net > > > _______________________________________________ > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium > Jun 1 - Zimbra > Jul 6 - Jul 2011 > Aug 3 - Scala - 100th MHVLUG meeting
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