If you have Linux then you have everything you need. Script it to ping 10
times an monitor those pings. If all fails then runa script to dial Vodapone
directly and send an SMS message.
thanks,
George Vieira
Network Administrator
Citadel Computer Systems P/L
http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au
-----Original Message-----
From: Charlie Brady [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, 17 May 2000 5:09 PM
To: Doug Stalker
Cc: SLUG
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Making linux page a message if the Network
Connection goes down.
On Wed, 17 May 2000, Anand Kumria wrote:
> Presumably you are looking for something widely used and well supported?
>
> Two I'd recommend are Big Brother and Mon. Big Brother, unfortunately
> has Free Software -- it is free as long you as you don't try to sell
It wasn't Free last I looked (a while ago), it came with strings attached
- you need to register and needed to have certain advertising on the web
page, etc.
> it. Mon isn't too bad; although it requires some knowledge of SNMP
> (which I only have a little bit of) to monitor *everything*.
You might also look at EMU, which was presented at a SLUG meeting last
year.
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