A web site that pings

[dictator88]

Looking for a package program or programer who would do it, that can make a webpage PING serveral IP's every so often and then display them on a web page. Purpose is as you can guess, to check a network from any connection. Does anyone know of a program that does this. I'm figuring it would be used/made for 2000 server or whatever. I can even use a freebsd or openbsd version of something if needed. If anyone knows of anything, PLEASE list... Thank you.

 

[pansophic]

Take a look at a Looking Glass server.

http://www.traceroute.org

http://sourceforge.net/search/?type_of_search=soft&words="looking+glass"

Not exactly what you are looking for, but has all of the right functionality.


pansophic

 

[pansophic]

Oh yeah, you may want to take a look at nagios too!

http://www.nagios.org

pansophic

 

[dictator88]

ok, nagios does seem to "want" to do what I'm looking for but goooooood night. They sure as hell made work out of that. Has anyone made anything that does the same thing out there? Say,,,, windows based. At least there I might find real documentation. O, and thanks, that is the kind of stuff I'm looking for.

 

[pansophic]

Personally I prefer mrtg for monitoring connectivity. Ping is really an ineffective way of checking connectivity. But it is easy.


pansophic

 

[dictator88]

I currently map bandwidth used with mrtg, however as you know that is a 5min average and is only useful if they are doing something. Is there a script for MRTG that will map basic connectivity??? If so, please send a link or something.

 

[pansophic]

This may solve your problem.

http://forums.cacti.net/viewtopic.php?t=16482

It is apparently possible to now poll every second using mcron. Everything that I have read says that you need to be using RRD in order to only build the graphs on demand, rather than automatically building them whether needed or not.

You may also wish to set the system to assume a zero for a non-response.

While looking around, I came up with these links. Never even heard of either before, but perhaps one is what you are looking for:

http://rsug.itd.umich.edu/software/nefu/

http://www.opennms.org/index.php/Main_Page

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[Amiel]

... The ping can and probably should originate from an independent machine connected to the internet where socket code executes periodically followed by post to the web server located on the internet that includes ping response data.

Web server stores data sent from socket routine in appropriate container (database).

When site gets HTTP request (web browser) for report (web page), the web server builds report using data (in database) supplied by periodic socket application using one of several scripting languages. Report would include the date and time of the last update.

Neat little concept; would take about one day - end to end.



Amiel Summers

 

[dictator88]

hummm, there are some other variables that should be mentioned I think. What is mostly being "pinged" is customer radios on a large wireless broadband network.

 

[dictator88]

You know, this is what I would like. FreeBSD has virtual OS's. (Jails). I wouldn't mind paying someone to make a jail that has something like this on it. Even if its something already out there such as nagios. My understanding of UNIX is somewhat limited and I am just looking for a simple solution that will baby-sit the network without me having to baby-sit it!

 

[pansophic]

You can download many of the Linux distros now as "VMWare Appliances" and use the free VMWare Player to run them. They are pre-built virtual machines that you can run simultaneously on your existing system and they are network accessible to your host OS. I'm sure at least one of them has Nagios already installed, but if you use one of the Debian derivatives you can use apt-get to install it and all dependencies with a single command.


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