rrdtool + cacti can do this (if you like MRTG, you'll love these) The output is nice pretty graphs with ping times (or anything else..) ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 11:09 AM Subject: [smartBridges] remote monitoring
> What kind of tools are there out there to remotely monitor the line > quality between NOC and CPE devices? > > Every once in a while I'll run across someone who has excellent MRTG > charts (RSSI and linkQ), but their connection speed sucks. I'll play > around with their setup and will occasionally see something like they > can't take pings > 500 bytes or something like that. The last time it > happened, Customer rebooted his CPE to no avail. I reset the AP and it > went away. Thankfully it didn't require a truckroll. > > Is there some kind of tool out there that can accept a list (db?) of IP > addresses and then at preset times of the day, will ping each IP on the > list with varying sized packets in order to measure the quality of the > connection and then record the results? Something like that would be an > excellent compliment to MRTG. > > I suppose it wouldn't be too terribly difficult to write one, but...ahhh.. > who has the time? (but one of these days I know I will!!) > > Tim Foster > www.AledoBroadBand.com > Aledo's only high-speed ISP > > The PART-15.ORG smartBridges Discussion List > To Join: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type subscribe smartBridges <yournickname> > To Remove: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type unsubscribe smartBridges) > Archives: http://archives.part-15.org > The PART-15.ORG smartBridges Discussion List To Join: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type subscribe smartBridges <yournickname> To Remove: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type unsubscribe smartBridges) Archives: http://archives.part-15.org
