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Subject: Re: Perl scripts that monitor network connection?
From: Mark Sergeant <msergeant@looksmart.net>
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Bigbrother has a rrdtool plugin written by the community. I use Big
Brother to monitor 300 machines in 2 countries and have yet to find a
fault with it as the ability to add your own items to monitor is
brilliant.

Cheers,

Mark

On Sun, 2002-05-05 at 14:04, Dylan Carlson wrote:
> On Saturday 04 May 2002 12:28am, Tony Saign wrote:
> > Recently (last night) for 3 hours my connection was experiencing some
> > SERIOUS problems!
> > (i.e. destination net unreachable, up to 47% packet from my router to
> > theirs etc.)
> >
> > This made me realize I need to monitor this connection VERY closely.
> > Until the issues are resolved.
> >
> > Can anyone recommend any network connection monitoring scripts that
> > could be scheduled as cron jobs, and possibly emails the results to me?
> > Or a good open-source package?
> >
>=20
> IMHO -- cricket is the best thing going, but it's really geared towards a=
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> larger number of nodes.  Using something like NetSaint or MRTG or BB is=20
> probably better for smaller environments... although neither of those=20
> packages have really given me the config flexibility and graphing power o=
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> RRDTool.
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> RRDTool is a wonder unto itself. =20
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> Dylan Carlson [absinthe@pobox.com]
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