[wellylug] server monitoring

[Jamie Baddeley]

rather than installing nagios, and having to get your head around that,
you could just use the nagios check_ping plugin, which adds some
intelligence like David describes.

I can point you at the source code (or a binary) if you wish,

jamie

On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 15:54 +1300, David Antliff wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, Mark Signal wrote:
> > does anyone know of a script (run as a cron job?)  that will ping a remote 
> > server a few times regularly and run a command if the server becomes 
> > unpingable  - and ideally runs another command when the server rejoins the 
> > land of the living.
> 
> I wrote a script to do this once, and discovered several linux 
> distributions have different flavours of ping - I think the Debian one 
> allows a specified timeout but the Gentoo one does not, or something.
> 
> Be fairly easy to whip a script up anyway.
> 
> -- 
> David.
> 

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Jamie Baddeley <wellylug at vpc.co.nz>