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From: "DINKEY,GENE (HP-Loveland,ex1)" <gene_dinkey@hp.com>
To: "'Joe.Warner@smed.com'" <Joe.Warner@smed.com>,
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Subject: RE: Help me make FreeBSD shine
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 12:33:54 -0800 
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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
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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