On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 11:57:36AM -0500, Nick Mitchell wrote: > Would anyone be interested in a "I scratch your back if you scratch mine" > scenario? Maybe even more then one person/organization. Currently, we > don't have a way to monitor our network from outside of our network. > > We would be more then happy to ping someone's router and if it goes down > send an alert to an email, cell, whatever. For a return service of the > same. We use mon.d alerts but if you have something else that is fine. I > see it as being pretty hands off once we set it up and is a nice backup > to what we already have.
A good idea would be to have two Mon installs trap to a central Mon server that alerts if both report a failure: http://www.mail-archive.com/mon@linux.kernel.org/msg00714.html A lot of people could pool resources into such a beast and come up with a sort of consensus on whether or not there's trouble, and possibly allow thresholds where if 30% of the monitors report failure an alert is sent, etc. Might be nice for us debian people to band together on this and have a sort of community monitoring. -- Nate Campi http://www.campin.net