Re: [Hampshire] Simple network link monitor

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Author: Simon Capstick
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Simple network link monitor
Tony Whitmore wrote:
> Keith Edmunds wrote:
>> I'm looking for something that can report lack of connectivity to a remote
>> IP address. I only need a simple text report along the lines of:
>>
>> Link to xxx down 12 Jan 2008, 08:51 - 08:59
>>
>> I'm happy to cobble something together in Bash or Python, but I suspect
>> it's been done already. I don't mind a more complex tool so long as it can
>> give me the simple report as above.
>
> I did have, but it seems to have disappeared from my website...
>
> ... but thanks to archive.org I've found it:
>
> http://darcs.tonywhitmore.co.uk/repos/chk_isp/chk_isp
>
> :)
>
> Tony
>


I use smokeping - nice graphs and it emails you too. Fairly easy to
configure too, but requires apache to be installed.

Simon C.