Re: Command line network monitoring tool

[Jacob S <stormspotter@6Texans.net>]

On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 16:01:07 -0500
Andrés Roldán <aroldan@debian.org> wrote:

> Michael Madden <madden@cmsrtp.com> writes:
> 
> > Are there any network monitoring tools that monitor the availability
> > of network resources (HTTP, IMAP, POP3, IMAP, SSH, NNTP, FTP, DNS,
> > RSYNC) that I can run from the command line?  Right now I'm using a
> > shell script that checks if the machine is pingable, but I'm finding
> > that often the service has died but the machine is still reachable
> > with ping.

> Nagios may help.

I'll second that. We're using it for several servers at work with great
success. It's even in Sarge now.

HTH,
Jacob