--- "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."