I was trying to get a useful alert for down PCs. As I don't really care if
1 PC is down (sometimes users will reboot or shutdown instead of logging
off). However if more then 2 PCs are down then there is an issue that I
need to look at. Possible causes...
- More then one user shutting down their PC.
- An unmanaged hub going down.
- A power circuit going down.
- A total power failure at a branch w/ the telco rack on an
unmanaged UPS.
- The location disappears from the WINS server.
All of the above are things that have happened. Most of my branches are
small enough to not get a managed UPS, because there are no servers at the
branches.
I was hoping to get this functionality in WUG. It looks like the PERL
script may be the best way to go. However I would use WUG to do the testing
and the perl script to update the file. Then when it hit the magic number
have it send a trap (because WUG doesn't alert from syslog) then have WUG
alert from the trap.
Jeff Cook
Network Administrator
Whatcom Educational Credit Union
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