So many different ways to do this. We do it thusly. 1) Set up a host for your border router. 2) Within this, sefine a number of http check services that try to collect web pages from popular internet sites ( google, microsoft, ibm...). Disable notifications on them. 3) Use check_summary (from nagiosexchange.org) to define a service which is OK if any of the http check services are OK, and critical if they are all down.
Now, the check_summary service will go critical if and only if *all* the http checks are failing, which would indicate a loss of Internet connectivity somewhere beyond your border router. You can even add a final check to ping a known IP address on the internet to this in case your external DNS fails. Steve ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
