At 12:43 PM 1/11/02 +0100, you wrote:
>  I had a look at dtquery but must
>admit
>that it is far beyond my current perl know-how to adapt it...

dtquery uses mon-generated downtime logs as its 'database'. It may not be 
what you want or need for your case however. The nice thing about it is 
that it gives you a query interface and doesn't require any extra work past 
enabling downtime logs and setting up dtquery initially.



>Furthermore, I'm looking for a way to classify the failures reported by
>fping:

what you describe here is possible by modifying the fping.monitor. You 
could easily add a flag that calculated the # of hosts that it was passed, 
and only gave an error if a certain number, or percentage of those hosts, 
were marked as unreachable. This would be pretty simple perl. Definitely 
leverage the 'exit=' flag for sending out different alerts.


andrew

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