From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 19 23:33:09 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA14548 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 23:33:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu ([128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA14531 for ; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 23:33:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA00852; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 23:32:59 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 23:32:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Steve Hovey cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tester ditty (fwd) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 18 Sep 1997, Steve Hovey wrote: > > Im trying to set up a system of checks that will beep me of something isnt > working - I use ping to see if machines are up or not, but could use > something that will check that a port is being answered - for instance, > something that would connect to a mail or web port and return an > errorlevel if nothing is answering that port - does anyone know of > anything like that available anywhere? Big brother was mentioned. our network services dept. has something which does precicely what you say -- it pings everything all the time, and if something doesn't respond in a while, beeps go off. You can walk through the offices and hear the Suns beeping their heads off every so often when they find something not responding. :) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo