Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 23:32:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Steve Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tester ditty (fwd) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970919233209.716U-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.970918213905.6691C-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net>
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On Thu, 18 Sep 1997, Steve Hovey wrote: > > Im trying to set up a system of checks that will beep me of something isnt > working - I use ping to see if machines are up or not, but could use > something that will check that a port is being answered - for instance, > something that would connect to a mail or web port and return an > errorlevel if nothing is answering that port - does anyone know of > anything like that available anywhere? Big brother was mentioned. our network services dept. has something which does precicely what you say -- it pings everything all the time, and if something doesn't respond in a while, beeps go off. You can walk through the offices and hear the Suns beeping their heads off every so often when they find something not responding. :) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo
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