From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 14 07:27:32 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9312937B401 for ; Thu, 14 Aug 2003 07:27:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from munk.nu (213-152-51-194.dsl.eclipse.net.uk [213.152.51.194]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3BC643FD7 for ; Thu, 14 Aug 2003 07:27:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from munk@munk.nu) Received: from munk by munk.nu with local (Exim 4.20) id 19nJ4c-000IOA-JM for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 14 Aug 2003 15:27:30 +0100 Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 15:27:30 +0100 From: Jez Hancock To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: <20030814142730.GB69860@users.munk.nu> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: User Munk Subject: Re: Monitoring tool X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 14:27:32 -0000 On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 09:23:42AM -0400, Ben Dover wrote: > I am looking for a monitoring tool that will notify my cell phone when my > FreeBSD box is down or off line. It could be as simple as an application > that runs on another FreeBSD box or Win box and pings the server and when > it doesn't respond to pings it sends and alert to my cell phone. I'm sure > there are more sophisticated programs out there to alert server status and > I would be interested in those too but something basic to get started would > be fine. Thanks Check out apinger from the ports: /usr/ports/net/apinger I've not used it in conjunction with sending SMS alerts but there is a brief example in the sample config file to do this. -- Jez http://www.munk.nu/