[mrtg] Re: Alert on No Response

[Leigh Sharpe]

Look at a dedicated network monitoring tool like WhatsUp Gold, Spectrum, HP
Openview.....
Regards,
             Leigh

Leigh Sharpe
Network Systems Engineer
Pacific Wireless
Ph 9584 8966
Mob 0408 009 502
email lsharpe at pacificwireless.com.au
web www.pacificwireless.com.au

----- Original Message -----
From: "jrb" <JeffWorking at hotmail.com>
To: <mrtg at list.ee.ethz.ch>
Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 3:20 PM
Subject: [mrtg] Alert on No Response


>
> Hi everyone.
>
> I have a question that I thought would be common, but only shows up in the
> archive a couple times with no responses.  What I'd like to do is call a
> shell script when a device fails to respond to MRTG.
>
> I'm fairly new to Linux and MRTG, so there may be an obvious way to do
this
> that I'm missing.  My first thought was to test the MRTG result code, but
it
> seems to return 0 even if the device fails to respond (I think this is
> because I'm actually seeing the PERL result, which was successful).
>
> I also considered doing this outside of MRTG by writing a shell script to
> ping the device every 5 minutes and report failures, but this won't
account
> for times when the ping succeeds and MRTG still fails to get a response.
>
> Any suggestions you can offer would be much appreciated.
>
> -jrb
>
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