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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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