Jeff Waugh wrote:
Even better, install collectd and use its ping plugin -- now you can do the
same thing, but with beautiful (and *SIMPLE*) graph output. :-)
Or you could use Nagios and have the alert notification send a form
letter to the person concerned every time it went down.(probably not a
great idea!). But seriously, it also comes with handy availability
graphs, so you quote uptime/downtime figures in percentage terms easily.
on ubuntu, apt-get install nagios will monitor your default gateway with
ping out of the box.
dave
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