Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 08:51:52 -0700 From: Joe.Warner@smed.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Help me make FreeBSD shine Message-ID: <852569EA.0056CD6F.00@Deimos.smed.com>
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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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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