If I understand the original question right, the objective is to see whether the local network card has a live connection to the network.
Why the indirect test? Check the link status of the card itself! Query the local SNMP agent and check that ifOperStatus = 1. A sample configuration for this is provided in my snmpvar.monitor. This mechanism is generic across hosts, switches, routers, firewalls and what-have-you. --Peter -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 7:44 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Subject: Re: Best way to monitor network card On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 07:30:22AM +0000, SXren Neigaard wrote: > > Oh yes I'm very interested in that script. Sorry for the late answer, but I > have been on holiday :) > > What does that actually mean, if no IP replies? How does that work - do I > configure a list of IP's to monitor? > Yes you configure several IPs in your hostlist. Recent versions of fping.monitor included in mon or my script below have an option to report failure _only_ when all targets fail. You append this option to the scripts call in yopur watch definition. Here is an example: hostgroup link-provider www.provider.net ns.provider.net watch link-provider service link interval 5m monitor icmp.monitor -l period SMS: wd {Sun-Sat} hr {7am-10pm} alertevery 1h summary alertafter 2 comp_alerts alert sms.alert 0123456 upalert sms.alert 0123456 period MAIL: wd {Sun-Sat} alertevery 1h summary alertafter 2 comp_alerts alert mail.alert [EMAIL PROTECTED] upalert mail.alert [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Alles Gute / best wishes Dietmar Goldbeck E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reporter (to Mahatma Gandhi): Mr Gandhi, what do you think of Western Civilization? Gandhi: I think it would be a good idea.
