On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 13:54 -0400, Kennedy Clark wrote: > A bit off topic, but I keep looking for an answer to this question and > coming up with nothing... so I thought I would go to the gurus. :-) > > Can anyone recommend a good package for pinging other devices and > sending an email/alert when they go down? I'm aware of all kinds of > more complex things with GUIs and a zillion other bells and whistles > we aren't looking for, but we just want a simple tool (could be daemon > or something run from cron) that runs every 1 - 5 minutes and alerts > us when stuff disappears. Would need some basic logic like only > sending one email/alert when something goes down (vs sending an email > every 1-5 minutes until it comes back up). :-) We need to avoid a > requirement for an X-windows GUI, but a web-GUI would probably be fine > (a GUI-less command-line thing would probably be best). ---- the all purpose server tool - webmin www.webmin.com Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.