On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 08:14:24PM +1000, Rick Phillips 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
Nagios, collectd, zenoss, and a bunch of others are all good for what you want. Matt, who is still trying (not very hard) to get nice graphs from collectd I installed collectd rrdtool plugin from fedora extras but I presume I have to fiddle with the collectd.conf. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
