Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 15:57:05 +0000 From: simond@irrelevant.org To: Joe.Warner@smed.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help me make FreeBSD shine Message-ID: <20010205155704.L38733@irrelevant.org> In-Reply-To: <852569EA.0056CD6F.00@Deimos.smed.com>; from Joe.Warner@smed.com on Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 08:51:52AM -0700 References: <852569EA.0056CD6F.00@Deimos.smed.com>
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On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 08:51:52AM -0700, Joe.Warner@smed.com wrote: > > > 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. There're at least a couple of monitoring programs in the ports, net/bb and net/nocol are the ones that spring to mind, bb produces web pages of it's results. -- Simon Dick simond@irrelevant.org "Why do I get this urge to go bowling everytime I see Tux?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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