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You're halfway there. How about a cgi on the
server which matches the IP against the last logged IP. If it changes, it
rewrites the log with the new IP and sends you a messages. You could put
that in the Cron or as a startup script.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 2:38
PM
Subject: [sambar] Admin Problem
{01}
I am the admin for several servers (running Sambar) scattered all over the
place. These servers are on "semi" dynamic IP's.. They change every 6 months
to 12 months.
I would like to have each server check in with my server (or send me an
e-mail or something) reporting their current IP and the server's name and
location. In the event the IP has changed, I can make the proper DNS changes
even before my customer knows their server is down.
I know there are programs like "Servers Alive" that uses your machine to
seek out and see if a particular server is up but since the servers IP #'s
change once in a while, this just doesn't work for me. I also like the idea of
the each server "reporting in" once a day.
I've thought about writing a perl script that would reside on my server and
have each client access the script each day as a "Scheduled Task" but when I
try this approach, the browser window stays open on the server. I'd kinda like
to make this transpearent on my customer's server..
It seems to me that there should be a simple solution to this problem but I
can't seem to come up with it. Anyone have any ideas?
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