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Date:      Mon, 5 Feb 2001 15:57:05 +0000
From:      simond@irrelevant.org
To:        Joe.Warner@smed.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Help me make FreeBSD shine
Message-ID:  <20010205155704.L38733@irrelevant.org>
In-Reply-To: <852569EA.0056CD6F.00@Deimos.smed.com>; from Joe.Warner@smed.com on Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 08:51:52AM -0700
References:  <852569EA.0056CD6F.00@Deimos.smed.com>

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On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 08:51:52AM -0700, Joe.Warner@smed.com wrote:
> 
> 
>  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.

There're at least a couple of monitoring programs in the ports, net/bb and
net/nocol are the ones that spring to mind, bb produces web pages of it's
results.

-- 
Simon Dick					simond@irrelevant.org
"Why do I get this urge to go bowling everytime I see Tux?"


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