I don't know if this will help but I run my mrtg with crontab and it is set up to email me when mrtg fails to contact a device. I also use smokeping with alerts and this provides a fairly good indication when an device fails. Here is my crontab setup. [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]# more crontab SHELL=/bin/bash PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED] HOME=/
# run-parts 01 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.hourly 02 4 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.daily 22 4 * * 0 root run-parts /etc/cron.weekly 42 4 1 * * root run-parts /etc/cron.monthly */5 * * * * root /root/mrtg_run 4 5 * * * root reboot -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Luis Carlos Solano Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 11:26 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [mrtg] ping? email Cook, Garry wrote: > MRTG is mainly about performance monitoring. If you want fault > monitoring, you can probably do it with MRTG, I've seen several > scripts and whatnot in the past, but I would recommend the correct > tool for the job. You should look at something like Nagios instead. > http://www.nagios.org/ > another vote for Nagios here... Luis Carlos. _______________________________________________ mrtg mailing list [email protected] https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/mrtg Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. CONFIDENTIAL NOTICE: This e-mail message and any attachment(s) (collectively, this 'Email') are intended only for the confidential use of the recipient(s) named above. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient named above or an agent responsible for delivering it to the intended recipient named above, you have received this Email in error. Please notify the sender immediately and permanently delete this Email and any copies thereof. _______________________________________________ mrtg mailing list [email protected] https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/mrtg
