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@xxxxxxxxxx"
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]
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Thanks
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