On 9/22/05, Kennedy Clark <hkclark at gmail.com> 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). I don't know about best, but we're using Big Sister (http://www.bigsister.ch/) - web based. -- Collins Richey Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code ... If you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it. -Brian Kernighan