[CentOS] Recommendation On Ping And Alert Tool

[Brian T. Brunner]

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Brian Brunner
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>>> wam at HiWAAY.net 09/23/05 08:07AM >>>
Steven Vishoot wrote:

>--- "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam at HiWAAY.net> wrote:
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>>CentOS mailing list wrote:
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>>>Kennedy Clark wrote:
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>>>>A bit off topic, but I keep looking for an answer
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>>to this question 
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>>>>and coming up with nothing... so I thought I
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>>would go to the gurus. :-)
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>>>>Can anyone recommend a good package for pinging
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>>other devices and 
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>>>>sending an email/alert when they go down?  I'm
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>>aware of all kinds of 
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>>>>more complex things with GUIs and a zillion other
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>>bells and whistles 
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>>>>we aren't looking for, but we just want a simple
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>>tool (could be 
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>>>>daemon or something run from cron) that runs
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>>every 1 - 5 minutes and 
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>>>>alerts us when stuff disappears.  Would need some
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>>basic logic like 
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>>>>only sending one email/alert when something goes
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>>down (vs sending an 
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>>>>email every 1-5 minutes until it comes back up).
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>>:-)  We need to 
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>>>>avoid a requirement for an X-windows GUI, but a
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>>web-GUI would 
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>>>>probably be fine (a GUI-less command-line thing
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>>would probably be best).
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>>>Bash. Here is what I use for monitoring my website
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>>>#!/bin/bash
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>>>URL="http://www.911networks.com"
>>>EMAIL="artsi at fartsi.com"
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>>>lynx -dump "$URL" > /dev/null
>>>if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
>>>    echo "`date "+%F %T"` - $URL is down" | mail
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>>-s "$URL is down" $EMAIL
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>>>fi
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>>>Watch for the wraps and make it executable [chmod
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>>7xx]
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>>This is the sort of thing I was going to suggest.
>>You could go 1 better 
>>& have it resubmit itself periodically w/ at(1).
>>Maybe get it to do some 
>>argument parsing so you could pass in the URL,
>>EMAIL, then invoke plural 
>>instances for however many things you want to
>>monitor ....
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>>-- 
>>	William A. Mahaffey III
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>My question is wouldnt this keep on sending emails all
>the time ping keeps on seeing it is down. I thought
>one of the requirements was once for each occurance? I
>probably am reading this wrong...
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>Steven
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>"On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section, it said 'Requires Windows or better'. So I installed Linux."
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It wouldn't have to. You would probably structure the script to E-mail 
if the device was down & then exit. It would re-submit itself if the 
device were up :-).

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	William A. Mahaffey III
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