On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 09:01:50PM -0500, Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote: > I'm basically looking for something I can run on Unix and > give me a curses view of IPs I give it to ping at the same time.
You could use Mon: http://mon.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page The server component will do the pinging and reporting of which hosts are down. It includes an command-line client that displays the current status. You could hack on that (or script with it) to display the results in the format that you want. But the client/server architecure and other overhead might be more work than you bargained for. > Curses MTR bolds the lettering when it has a ping loss which I want > to catch my eye. In my shop, we have Mon set to write to our terminals when it has something important to tell us. > As an FYI, the problem I have is I'm having connection losses between my > site and the wireless WISP's gateway. I think the packet is getting to the > backhaul link at the site here, but not to the other end of the backhaul here. > I want to run a set of pings [...] That sounds like a job for Smokeping: http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/ It will run a set of pings on whatever you want and graph the results. You'll be able to spot long-term trends as well as short-term outages. ISTR it also has some alarming logic, so you might be able to have it squawk at you when someone stops answering pings completely. > I want something formalized since sending pings that just show > a loss somewhere in the middle don't mean anything. I've done that with Smokeping - tell Smokeping to ping everything in a particular path. Lining up the resulting graphs with records of service outages is usually very informative. _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/