Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 09:35:16 -0700 From: Joe.Warner@smed.com To: Dru <genisis@istar.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help me make FreeBSD shine Message-ID: <852569EA.005AC59D.00@Deimos.smed.com>
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Thanks Dru! You know, it never occurred to me to look at the UNIX Tips. I get one in my inbox every day and have really found a lot of them to be valuable indeed. So much so, that I recommended the Daemon News team include them in their new print publication, which they have done. Regards Joe |--------+-----------------------> | | Dru | | | <genisis@ista| | | r.ca> | | | | | | 02/05/01 | | | 08:57 AM | | | | |--------+-----------------------> >---------------------------------------------------------| | | | To: Joe Warner/SMS@SMS | | cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG | | Subject: Re: Help me make FreeBSD shine | >---------------------------------------------------------| 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
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