Steven Vishoot wrote: >--- "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam at HiWAAY.net> wrote: > > > >>CentOS mailing list wrote: >> >> >> >>>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). >> >> >>>Bash. Here is what I use for monitoring my website >>> >>>#!/bin/bash >>> >>>URL="http://www.911networks.com" >>>EMAIL="artsi at fartsi.com" >>> >>>lynx -dump "$URL" > /dev/null >>>if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then >>> echo "`date "+%F %T"` - $URL is down" | mail >>> >>> >>-s "$URL is down" $EMAIL >> >> >>>fi >>> >>>Watch for the wraps and make it executable [chmod >>> >>> >>7xx] >> >> >>> >>> >>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 .... >> >>-- >> William A. Mahaffey III >> >> >> >--------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >> Remember, ignorance is bliss, but >> willful ignorance is LIBERALISM !!!! >> >>_______________________________________________ >>CentOS mailing list >>CentOS at centos.org >>http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> >> >> > >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... > >Steven > > >"On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section, it said 'Requires Windows or better'. So I installed Linux." >_______________________________________________ > > > 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 :-). -- William A. Mahaffey III --------------------------------------------------------------------- Remember, ignorance is bliss, but willful ignorance is LIBERALISM !!!! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20050923/77489997/attachment-0004.html>