Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 15:27:30 +0100 From: Jez Hancock <jez.hancock@munk.nu> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Monitoring tool Message-ID: <20030814142730.GB69860@users.munk.nu> In-Reply-To: <Law11-F88dZ1ZD5yhQZ0001e5e1@hotmail.com> References: <Law11-F88dZ1ZD5yhQZ0001e5e1@hotmail.com>
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On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 09:23:42AM -0400, Ben Dover wrote: > I am looking for a monitoring tool that will notify my cell phone when my > FreeBSD box is down or off line. It could be as simple as an application > that runs on another FreeBSD box or Win box and pings the server and when > it doesn't respond to pings it sends and alert to my cell phone. I'm sure > there are more sophisticated programs out there to alert server status and > I would be interested in those too but something basic to get started would > be fine. Thanks Check out apinger from the ports: /usr/ports/net/apinger I've not used it in conjunction with sending SMS alerts but there is a brief example in the sample config file to do this. -- Jez http://www.munk.nu/
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