ping utility to test a server, that can also alert me?

[holden j caufield]

We've got a test server that is randomly losing connectivity. I need to constantly ping it, about every minute or so and if it could alert me via email when it goes down that'd be great, free is better.

 

[n0cmonkey]

while true; do
ping -c 1 SYSTEM || mail -s 'system down' EMAIL_ADDRESS < /MESSAGE/FILE
sleep 60
done

It'd probably be better to have a real system like nagios to do this though.

 

[her209]

SNMP

 

[Pantlegz]

Originally posted by: her209
SNMP

+10000000000000

 

[RadiclDreamer]

Nagios, Cacti, Whats up gold, Big Brother etc etc etc

 

[Jamsan]

Spiceworks is free and can do basic network management stuff that the bigger apps can do. Give it a shot: http://www.spiceworks.com/