Re: [Nagios-users] How to check Internet access and/or DNS?

2006-01-24 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 04:34:34PM +1300, Steve Shipway wrote: > So many different ways to do this. We do it thusly. > > 1) Set up a host for your border router. > 2) Within this, sefine a number of http check services that try to collect > web pages from popular internet sites ( google, microsof

RE: [Nagios-users] How to check Internet access and/or DNS?

2006-01-24 Thread Steve Shipway
So many different ways to do this. We do it thusly. 1) Set up a host for your border router. 2) Within this, sefine a number of http check services that try to collect web pages from popular internet sites ( google, microsoft, ibm...). Disable notifications on them. 3) Use check_summary (from na

Re: [Nagios-users] How to check Internet access and/or DNS?

2006-01-24 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, Guy B. Purcell wrote: > > On Jan 23, 2006, at 23:56, Marc Haber wrote: > > > some services, most notably DNS, depend on the Internet to be > > available. I'd like to express this in Nagios configuration. I'd > > probably need to have a service "Internet" for that where my DNS

Re: [Nagios-users] How to check Internet access and/or DNS?

2006-01-24 Thread Guy B. Purcell
On Jan 23, 2006, at 23:56, Marc Haber wrote: some services, most notably DNS, depend on the Internet to be available. I'd like to express this in Nagios configuration. I'd probably need to have a service "Internet" for that where my DNS service definitions could depend on to avoid DNS being rep

Re: [Nagios-users] How to check Internet access and/or DNS?

2006-01-24 Thread Brian Scanlan
On 24/01/06, Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On a second thought, how do I check DNS? I mean, even with the > Internet down, my local DNS servers probably can correctly serve DNS > records for my local network which they're authoritative for. So, does > it make sense to check the DNS server

[Nagios-users] How to check Internet access and/or DNS?

2006-01-23 Thread Marc Haber
Hi, some services, most notably DNS, depend on the Internet to be available. I'd like to express this in Nagios configuration. I'd probably need to have a service "Internet" for that where my DNS service definitions could depend on to avoid DNS being reported down in case of an internet outage. A