From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 5 7:55: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.smed.com (unknown [64.46.248.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7193037B401 for ; Mon, 5 Feb 2001 07:54:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtpgate.shrmed.com (unknown [64.46.248.1]) by smtp.smed.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B522161C0 for ; Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:54:45 -0500 (EST) Received: from iesa14.shrmed.com (iesa14.shrmed.com [10.1.99.114]) by smtpgate.shrmed.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA29156 for ; Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:54:05 -0500 From: Joe.Warner@smed.com Received: from Deimos.smed.com (unverified) by iesa14.shrmed.com (Content Technologies SMTPRS 2.0.15) with SMTP id for ; Mon, 05 Feb 2001 10:51:42 -0500 Received: by Deimos.smed.com(Lotus SMTP MTA v4.6.5 (863.2 5-20-1999)) id 852569EA.0056D872 ; Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:48:35 -0500 X-Lotus-FromDomain: SMS To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: <852569EA.0056CD6F.00@Deimos.smed.com> Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 08:51:52 -0700 Subject: Help me make FreeBSD shine MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I have a Compaq Deskpro at work, running FreeBSD 3.4. Currently, it's main purpose is as a solid web server for our intranet, running Apache 1.3.6 and it's been doing great. In an effort to find more uses for FreeBSD than just a web server, one of my managers wants to know if it's possible to use FreeBSD to check and log system availability for nodes on our network. Each weekend, we have 12 IBM AS/400's that get IPL'd and it's the responsibility of the on-call person to make sure these systems are up each Monday morning. Is there a way that I could write up some simple shell script that would ping the IP addresses of these systems and then log the output into a file that I could make accessible through a web browser? If so, I could set it to run in the CRON scheduler every four hours at specific times/days. Is there a port or package out there that would do something like this? I know about MRTG but I don't necessarily want the output to show up in the form of a graph chart. This is an opportunity to really make FreeBSD shine, to prove it's capabilities in our office. Can someone offer some suggestions? Thanks Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message