Hello Andrew, after looking into the patch from Dan Urist and a bit of playing around with fping.monitor it seems to work! I missed the point that mon can already handle alerts based on the exit status and the severity patch is rather an add-on for the gui (but a rather useful one...). My fping.monitor now reports the number of unreachable hosts and based on these numbers, our alerts are triggered.
Thanks Uwe -- Dr. Uwe Kreibaum Lotterie-Treuhandgesellschaft mbH Hessen, Tel.: +49 611 3612-0 FAX: +49 611 3612-356
