Smokeping! http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping-demo/?target=Customers.OP.johan
Rather more targetted than Nagios or Collectd, but might be all you're after. On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 9:14 PM, Rick Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 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. >> > > Thanks guys for the suggestions. I had forgotten about nagios and I > have discovered two new options for me to use. I have modified Peter's > simple script to output a tidy continuous report and have already > identified a near 30 minute outage this evening. I will have a tinker > with collectd and smokeping over the weekend. > > Thanks again, > > Rick > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
