Re: [AFMUG] uptime monitoring

[Mike Hammett]

Smokeping. Set the pings and step to 60. One ping every second. 




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From: "Chuck McCown"  
To: af@af.afmug.com 
Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2019 11:42:42 AM 
Subject: [AFMUG] uptime monitoring 




I am at the mercy of another service provider at a couple of sites. Lately they 
have been having big problems on their fiber system. 

What is the best cheap and dirty program to just continually ping something and 
make a graph? I attempted to do a trial of whatsup gold but it had a freaking 
huge SQL install that came along with it and I know they are going to want some 
money. 

I could write something simple to log up and down times but I am sure someone 
has already done it. Really simple, ping something like Google DNS every 30 
seconds. If it is down, record the time. When it comes back record the time. 
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Re: [AFMUG] uptime monitoring

[SmarterBroadband]

Multiping is great for this.

 

www.multiping.com  

 

Adam

 

From: AF [mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com] On Behalf Of Chuck McCown
Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2019 9:43 AM
To: af@af.afmug.com
Subject: [AFMUG] uptime monitoring

 

I am at the mercy of another service provider at a couple of sites.  Lately
they have been having big problems on their fiber system.

 

What is the best cheap and dirty program to just continually ping something
and make a graph?  I attempted to do a trial of whatsup gold but it had a
freaking huge SQL install that came along with it and I know they are going
to want some money.  

 

I could write something simple to log up and down times but I am sure
someone has already done it.  Really simple, ping something like Google DNS
every 30 seconds.  If it is down, record the time.  When it comes back
record the time.  

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Re: [AFMUG] uptime monitoring

[Mark - Myakka Technologies]

Title: Re: [AFMUG] uptime monitoring


Steve,

OK just for shits and giggles I typed in the bad ip address https://72.246.60.96 and got this from my browser

"Websites prove their identity via certificates. Firefox does not trust this site because it uses a certificate that is not valid for 72.246.60.96. The certificate is only valid for the following names: www.downloads.netgear.com, updates1.netgear.com, http.fw.updates1.netgear.com, arloupdates.netgear.com, updates.netgear.com, acupdatesdl2.netgear.com, acdownload.netgear.com, updates.arlo.com, kb1.netgear.com, acupdatesdl.netgear.com"

So, I'm going with my first guess that the netgear router is screwed.

 
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i bought perpetual Multiping. I use it quite often, you can control the polled stuff a little better. its got a trial, but its so cheap its worth just buying it for the data collection

On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 2:06 PM Trey Scarborough <t...@3dsc.co> wrote:




If its on a fiber Ethernet system I would buy some older accedian metronids and put on either end. You can easily find them on ebay for ~$100 you can set up oam reporting on them. It will give you much more detail than a ping as you can set it up to set so many packets every x ms and it will track it and in what direction the error was. They are also great for running RFC2544 throughput tests.
other than that I would recommend vaping its a alternative to smokeping https://github.com/20c/vaping

Trey

On 6/20/2019 11:42 AM, Chuck McCown wrote:




I am at the mercy of another service provider at a couple of sites.  Lately they have been having big problems on their fiber system.
 
What is the best cheap and dirty program to just continually ping something and make a graph?  I attempted to do a trial of whatsup gold but it had a freaking huge SQL install that came along with it and I know they are going to want some money.  
 
I could write something simple to log up and down times but I am sure someone has already done it.  Really simple, ping something like Google DNS every 30 seconds.  If it is down, record the time.  When it comes back record the time.  


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Re: [AFMUG] uptime monitoring

[Steve Jones]

i bought perpetual Multiping. I use it quite often, you can control the
polled stuff a little better. its got a trial, but its so cheap its worth
just buying it for the data collection

On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 2:06 PM Trey Scarborough  wrote:

> If its on a fiber Ethernet system I would buy some older accedian
> metronids and put on either end. You can easily find them on ebay for ~$100
> you can set up oam reporting on them. It will give you much more detail
> than a ping as you can set it up to set so many packets every x ms and it
> will track it and in what direction the error was. They are also great for
> running RFC2544 throughput tests.
>
> other than that I would recommend vaping its a alternative to smokeping
> https://github.com/20c/vaping
>
>
> Trey
>
>
> On 6/20/2019 11:42 AM, Chuck McCown wrote:
>
> I am at the mercy of another service provider at a couple of sites.
> Lately they have been having big problems on their fiber system.
>
> What is the best cheap and dirty program to just continually ping
> something and make a graph?  I attempted to do a trial of whatsup gold but
> it had a freaking huge SQL install that came along with it and I know they
> are going to want some money.
>
> I could write something simple to log up and down times but I am sure
> someone has already done it.  Really simple, ping something like Google DNS
> every 30 seconds.  If it is down, record the time.  When it comes back
> record the time.
>
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Re: [AFMUG] uptime monitoring

[Trey Scarborough]

If its on a fiber Ethernet system I would buy some older accedian 
metronids and put on either end. You can easily find them on ebay for 
~$100 you can set up oam reporting on them. It will give you much more 
detail than a ping as you can set it up to set so many packets every x 
ms and it will track it and in what direction the error was. They are 
also great for running RFC2544 throughput tests.


other than that I would recommend vaping its a alternative to smokeping 
https://github.com/20c/vaping



Trey


On 6/20/2019 11:42 AM, Chuck McCown wrote:
I am at the mercy of another service provider at a couple of sites.  
Lately they have been having big problems on their fiber system.
What is the best cheap and dirty program to just continually ping 
something and make a graph?  I attempted to do a trial of whatsup gold 
but it had a freaking huge SQL install that came along with it and I 
know they are going to want some money.
I could write something simple to log up and down times but I am sure 
someone has already done it.  Really simple, ping something like 
Google DNS every 30 seconds.  If it is down, record the time.  When it 
comes back record the time.



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Re: [AFMUG] uptime monitoring

[Dennis Burgess via AF]

Uptime robot, it costs but not much.  Pretty interface and looks super nice.  
Will give you a dashboard via web just like https://status.linktechs.net ..  I 
think we pay less than 10 bucks a month or something like that.


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From: AF  On Behalf Of Ryan Ray
Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2019 12:18 PM
To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group 
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] uptime monitoring

PRTG is free for 100 sensors.

On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 9:43 AM Chuck McCown 
mailto:ch...@wbmfg.com>> wrote:
I am at the mercy of another service provider at a couple of sites.  Lately 
they have been having big problems on their fiber system.

What is the best cheap and dirty program to just continually ping something and 
make a graph?  I attempted to do a trial of whatsup gold but it had a freaking 
huge SQL install that came along with it and I know they are going to want some 
money.

I could write something simple to log up and down times but I am sure someone 
has already done it.  Really simple, ping something like Google DNS every 30 
seconds.  If it is down, record the time.  When it comes back record the time.
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Re: [AFMUG] uptime monitoring

[Ryan Ray]

PRTG is free for 100 sensors.

On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 9:43 AM Chuck McCown  wrote:

> I am at the mercy of another service provider at a couple of sites.
> Lately they have been having big problems on their fiber system.
>
> What is the best cheap and dirty program to just continually ping
> something and make a graph?  I attempted to do a trial of whatsup gold but
> it had a freaking huge SQL install that came along with it and I know they
> are going to want some money.
>
> I could write something simple to log up and down times but I am sure
> someone has already done it.  Really simple, ping something like Google DNS
> every 30 seconds.  If it is down, record the time.  When it comes back
> record the time.
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Re: [AFMUG] uptime monitoring

[Sam Lambie]

Smokeping?

On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 10:43 AM Chuck McCown  wrote:

> I am at the mercy of another service provider at a couple of sites.
> Lately they have been having big problems on their fiber system.
>
> What is the best cheap and dirty program to just continually ping
> something and make a graph?  I attempted to do a trial of whatsup gold but
> it had a freaking huge SQL install that came along with it and I know they
> are going to want some money.
>
> I could write something simple to log up and down times but I am sure
> someone has already done it.  Really simple, ping something like Google DNS
> every 30 seconds.  If it is down, record the time.  When it comes back
> record the time.
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Re: [AFMUG] uptime monitoring

[Chris Fabien]

Ping Plotter

On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 12:43 PM Chuck McCown  wrote:

> I am at the mercy of another service provider at a couple of sites.
> Lately they have been having big problems on their fiber system.
>
> What is the best cheap and dirty program to just continually ping
> something and make a graph?  I attempted to do a trial of whatsup gold but
> it had a freaking huge SQL install that came along with it and I know they
> are going to want some money.
>
> I could write something simple to log up and down times but I am sure
> someone has already done it.  Really simple, ping something like Google DNS
> every 30 seconds.  If it is down, record the time.  When it comes back
> record the time.
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Re: [AFMUG] uptime monitoring

[Robert Andrews]

Linux  smokeping...

On 06/20/2019 09:46 AM, Simon Westlake wrote:

Pingplotter

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From: "Chuck McCown" mailto:ch...@wbmfg.com>>
To: af@af.afmug.com 
Sent: 6/20/2019 11:42:42 AM
Subject: [AFMUG] uptime monitoring

I am at the mercy of another service provider at a couple of sites. 
Lately they have been having big problems on their fiber system.
What is the best cheap and dirty program to just continually ping 
something and make a graph?  I attempted to do a trial of whatsup gold 
but it had a freaking huge SQL install that came along with it and I 
know they are going to want some money.
I could write something simple to log up and down times but I am sure 
someone has already done it.  Really simple, ping something like 
Google DNS every 30 seconds.  If it is down, record the time.  When it 
comes back record the time. 





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Re: [AFMUG] uptime monitoring

[chuck]

I used to use it all the time for SNMP stuff.  Didn’t think about using it for 
simple ICMP.

From: Ken Hohhof 
Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2019 11:01 AM
To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' 
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] uptime monitoring

PRTG free version lets you monitor up to 100 sensors.  Needs Windows though.

https://www.paessler.com/howto-free-network-monitoring

 

 

From: AF  On Behalf Of Chuck McCown
Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2019 11:43 AM
To: af@af.afmug.com
Subject: [AFMUG] uptime monitoring

 

I am at the mercy of another service provider at a couple of sites.  Lately 
they have been having big problems on their fiber system.

 

What is the best cheap and dirty program to just continually ping something and 
make a graph?  I attempted to do a trial of whatsup gold but it had a freaking 
huge SQL install that came along with it and I know they are going to want some 
money.  

 

I could write something simple to log up and down times but I am sure someone 
has already done it.  Really simple, ping something like Google DNS every 30 
seconds.  If it is down, record the time.  When it comes back record the time.  




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Re: [AFMUG] uptime monitoring

[Ken Hohhof]

PRTG free version lets you monitor up to 100 sensors.  Needs Windows though.

https://www.paessler.com/howto-free-network-monitoring

 

 

From: AF  On Behalf Of Chuck McCown
Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2019 11:43 AM
To: af@af.afmug.com
Subject: [AFMUG] uptime monitoring

 

I am at the mercy of another service provider at a couple of sites.  Lately
they have been having big problems on their fiber system.

 

What is the best cheap and dirty program to just continually ping something
and make a graph?  I attempted to do a trial of whatsup gold but it had a
freaking huge SQL install that came along with it and I know they are going
to want some money.  

 

I could write something simple to log up and down times but I am sure
someone has already done it.  Really simple, ping something like Google DNS
every 30 seconds.  If it is down, record the time.  When it comes back
record the time.  

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Re: [AFMUG] uptime monitoring

[Chuck McCown]

Is there a windows version?

From: Cassidy B. Larson 
Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2019 10:52 AM
To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group 
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] uptime monitoring

SmokePing is free. 






  On Jun 20, 2019, at 10:50 AM, Chuck McCown  wrote:

  Still $39...  There has to be a freebie somewhere.  

  From: Simon Westlake
  Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2019 10:46 AM
  To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group
  Subject: Re: [AFMUG] uptime monitoring

  Pingplotter

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  From: "Chuck McCown" 
  To: af@af.afmug.com
  Sent: 6/20/2019 11:42:42 AM
  Subject: [AFMUG] uptime monitoring

I am at the mercy of another service provider at a couple of sites.  Lately 
they have been having big problems on their fiber system.

What is the best cheap and dirty program to just continually ping something 
and make a graph?  I attempted to do a trial of whatsup gold but it had a 
freaking huge SQL install that came along with it and I know they are going to 
want some money. 

I could write something simple to log up and down times but I am sure 
someone has already done it.  Really simple, ping something like Google DNS 
every 30 seconds.  If it is down, record the time.  When it comes back record 
the time. 


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Re: [AFMUG] uptime monitoring

[Chuck McCown]

I remember that name.  Thanks.

From: Cassidy B. Larson 
Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2019 10:52 AM
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Subject: Re: [AFMUG] uptime monitoring

SmokePing is free. 






  On Jun 20, 2019, at 10:50 AM, Chuck McCown  wrote:

  Still $39...  There has to be a freebie somewhere.  

  From: Simon Westlake
  Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2019 10:46 AM
  To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group
  Subject: Re: [AFMUG] uptime monitoring

  Pingplotter

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  From: "Chuck McCown" 
  To: af@af.afmug.com
  Sent: 6/20/2019 11:42:42 AM
  Subject: [AFMUG] uptime monitoring

I am at the mercy of another service provider at a couple of sites.  Lately 
they have been having big problems on their fiber system.

What is the best cheap and dirty program to just continually ping something 
and make a graph?  I attempted to do a trial of whatsup gold but it had a 
freaking huge SQL install that came along with it and I know they are going to 
want some money. 

I could write something simple to log up and down times but I am sure 
someone has already done it.  Really simple, ping something like Google DNS 
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Re: [AFMUG] uptime monitoring

[Cassidy B. Larson]

SmokePing is free. 



> On Jun 20, 2019, at 10:50 AM, Chuck McCown  wrote:
> 
> Still $39...  There has to be a freebie somewhere.  
>  
> From: Simon Westlake <>
> Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2019 10:46 AM
> To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <>
> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] uptime monitoring
>  
> Pingplotter
>  
> -- Original Message --
> From: "Chuck McCown" >
> To: af@af.afmug.com <>
> Sent: 6/20/2019 11:42:42 AM
> Subject: [AFMUG] uptime monitoring
>  
>> I am at the mercy of another service provider at a couple of sites.  Lately 
>> they have been having big problems on their fiber system.
>>  
>> What is the best cheap and dirty program to just continually ping something 
>> and make a graph?  I attempted to do a trial of whatsup gold but it had a 
>> freaking huge SQL install that came along with it and I know they are going 
>> to want some money. 
>>  
>> I could write something simple to log up and down times but I am sure 
>> someone has already done it.  Really simple, ping something like Google DNS 
>> every 30 seconds.  If it is down, record the time.  When it comes back 
>> record the time. 
> 
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Re: [AFMUG] uptime monitoring

[Carl Peterson]

does ping plotter still exist?

On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 11:43 AM Chuck McCown  wrote:

> I am at the mercy of another service provider at a couple of sites.
> Lately they have been having big problems on their fiber system.
>
> What is the best cheap and dirty program to just continually ping
> something and make a graph?  I attempted to do a trial of whatsup gold but
> it had a freaking huge SQL install that came along with it and I know they
> are going to want some money.
>
> I could write something simple to log up and down times but I am sure
> someone has already done it.  Really simple, ping something like Google DNS
> every 30 seconds.  If it is down, record the time.  When it comes back
> record the time.
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Re: [AFMUG] uptime monitoring

[Chuck McCown]

Still $39...  There has to be a freebie somewhere.  

From: Simon Westlake 
Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2019 10:46 AM
To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group 
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] uptime monitoring

Pingplotter

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From: "Chuck McCown" 
To: af@af.afmug.com
Sent: 6/20/2019 11:42:42 AM
Subject: [AFMUG] uptime monitoring

  I am at the mercy of another service provider at a couple of sites.  Lately 
they have been having big problems on their fiber system.

  What is the best cheap and dirty program to just continually ping something 
and make a graph?  I attempted to do a trial of whatsup gold but it had a 
freaking huge SQL install that came along with it and I know they are going to 
want some money.  

  I could write something simple to log up and down times but I am sure someone 
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Re: [AFMUG] uptime monitoring

[Simon Westlake]

Pingplotter

-- Original Message --
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Sent: 6/20/2019 11:42:42 AM
Subject: [AFMUG] uptime monitoring

I am at the mercy of another service provider at a couple of sites.  
Lately they have been having big problems on their fiber system.


What is the best cheap and dirty program to just continually ping 
something and make a graph?  I attempted to do a trial of whatsup gold 
but it had a freaking huge SQL install that came along with it and I 
know they are going to want some money.


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