On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 16:50, John Summerfield wrote:
debian user wrote:
i would like to set up a ping server for my office. I however have
not found a simple way of recieving a responce of "dead" or "alive".
I am not to concerned about time etc? I just want to ping a few
servers and then send the results out in a email to a few key
personal. Right now I am doing "echo ping -c 3 server-name > file"
for half a dozen boxes then i email the file to sevel people
periodicly during the day. I would like it to be a little eaiser to
read i.e. "dead" or "alive" after the server name.
thank you,
alex
Don't reinvent the wheel. Install mon.
From the description above, I think the OP wants *statistics* about the
availability of servers, rather than an alerting system for server
failure.
There are several good free monitoring packages, including "nagios",
"big sister" and mon.
Nagios: http://sourceforge.net/projects/nagios
Big Sister: http://sourceforge.net/projects/bigsister
But for nagios at least, gathering statistics is not its main purpose.
It can be done, but requires a fair bit of reading of manuals to set up.
I'm not familiar with mon or Big Sister, so don't know how good they are
at statistics.