Red/green light for successful DNS and ping to a server determined by DHCP
Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 1:05 PM, Chuck McCown via Af <af@afmug.com> wrote: > What would be the determining factor? Ping DNS server OK? > > *From:* Jason McKemie via Af <af@afmug.com> > *Sent:* Thursday, November 20, 2014 11:03 AM > *To:* af@afmug.com > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Network Monitoring in the 2010's > > A red/green led would probably suffice for this purpose. > > On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 12:01 PM, Gino Villarini via Af <af@afmug.com> > wrote: > >> We need a “device” that plugs between router and internet connection >> with a big screed that says Internet OK! Or Internef BAD… filter out calls >> with customer having issues with wifi >> >> >> >> Gino A. Villarini >> President >> Aeronet Wireless Broadband Corp. >> www.aeronetpr.com >> @aeronetpr >> >> >> >> From: "af@afmug.com" <af@afmug.com> >> Reply-To: "af@afmug.com" <af@afmug.com> >> Date: Thursday, November 20, 2014 at 1:47 PM >> To: "af@afmug.com" <af@afmug.com> >> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Network Monitoring in the 2010's >> >> *An app for my phone? Yuck >> *Something that pushes to cutomers letting them know we're having >> issues? Yuck >> *Something that let's the customer verify their particular service is >> good/not? That'd be great! >> *Web portal for billing, easy peasy >> >> Why a node fails probably won't be detectable by a machine - in some >> cases it's difficult for a person to narrow it down (radio, connectors, >> cables, ethernet, surge, etc) but I'd like to see ideas on this of course. >> >> I use/suggest an outgoing message. IF the customer is having issues and >> they do call us, they hear we're having issues and hang up. This means >> that we're not telling 100 people there are issues when 25 are effecting >> ending up with 75 calls next month saying we owe them a credit when they >> had nothing to do with an outage. >> >> >> Josh Luthman >> Office: 937-552-2340 >> Direct: 937-552-2343 >> 1100 Wayne St >> Suite 1337 >> Troy, OH 45373 >> >> On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 12:43 PM, Sterling Jacobson via Af <af@afmug.com> >> wrote: >> >>> What I really want is an integrated system that isn't stuck in the 90's. >>> >>> I want the customer to have an app on their phone that tells them when >>> their network is having issues and why. >>> I want it to also remind them to pay their bill and provide a lazy/easy >>> way to do that. >>> >>> I want that same system to have an engineer app that tells us when nodes >>> fail and why. >>> >>> So if a node goes down and it's important, it should show up on my phone >>> and I can take action. >>> One of those actions would be to message to outage impacted customers >>> the ETA to fix etc. >>> >>> Emails from Cacti don't count. >>> >> >> > >
