Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 12:33:54 -0800 From: "DINKEY,GENE (HP-Loveland,ex1)" <gene_dinkey@hp.com> To: "'Joe.Warner@smed.com'" <Joe.Warner@smed.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Help me make FreeBSD shine Message-ID: <F341E03C8ED6D311805E00902761278C531563@xfc04.fc.hp.com>
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I don't know about the html formatting and shell scripting but a good all around network tool is nmap. www.nmap.org - I believe there's also a port security/nmap (or close to there). While it's really a sophisticated port scanner it does have options to output in a log format which is easy to parse through using awk/grep/whatever. Gene > -----Original Message----- > From: Joe.Warner@smed.com [mailto:Joe.Warner@smed.com] > Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 8:52 AM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Help me make FreeBSD shine > > > > > 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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