From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 5 8: 8: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.toronto.istar.net (mail1.toronto.istar.net [209.89.75.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C892137B401 for ; Mon, 5 Feb 2001 08:07:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from d141-118-73.home.cgocable.net ([24.141.118.73]) by mail1.toronto.istar.net with esmtp (Exim 2.02 #1) id 14PoAe-000092-00; Mon, 5 Feb 2001 11:07:16 -0500 Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:57:26 -0500 (EST) From: Dru X-Sender: genisis@x1-6-00-00-b4-94-9d-3f.kico1.on.home.com To: Joe.Warner@smed.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help me make FreeBSD shine In-Reply-To: <852569EA.0056CD6F.00@Deimos.smed.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Joe, There was a UGU tip that gave a simple shell script to ping all the hosts in a host table: http://www.ugu.com/sui/ugu/show?I=tip.1478&F=1111111111&G=Y That might get you started on something to put into a cron script. Dru On Mon, 5 Feb 2001 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. > > 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 > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message