Re: monitoring internet availability and sending sms alert?
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>---- Original Message ----
>From: marathon.durandal@gmail.com
>To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>Subject: Re: monitoring internet availability and sending sms alert?
>Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 20:46:20 -0400
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>>On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 12:28:54AM +0100, Adam Hardy uttered:
>>> I figure this is probably something I would have to script myself
>>> because I can't find anything useful looking out there, but I
>thought
>>> I'd ask before I try (or perhaps before I procrastinate again):
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>>> I have a machine here at home running some 24x5 programs which I
>>> really need to keep up and running, along with my broadband so it
>can
>>> get its datafeeds.
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>>> I figured I could run a program on my webserver to ping my home
>>> machine regularly and in case it starts to slow down, lose packets
>or
>>> die completely, it could send me an SMS to alert me to the fact.
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>>> Is there something like this already in existence?
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>>Not sure as I'm going from memory. Webmin had/has a heartbeat
>monitor
>>plug-in and if memory serves it had a way to notify a phone number,
>>e-mail address etc. I assume it's not that important to be SMS
>>necessarily?
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>>Webmin AFAIK is not in Debian anymore; but you can get it upstream
>or
>>perhaps look at the heartbeat application in Debian to see what it
>has
>>for remote notification.
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>>HTH
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Isn't this what SNMP was designed for?
Larry
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