"Emails from Cacti don't count" - cacti is not an up/down monitoring system, it's a charting system... Any threshold alerting plugins that might be available are just a bonus.
Use something like OpenNMS or Nagios. On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 9:43 AM, 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. >