Lightweight network monitoring program

[Chris O'Connell]

Jerry,

Here are some step-by-step instructions on installing nagios:
http://outlookoutbox.blogspot.com/2010/11/nagios-installation-step-by-step_15.html

<http://outlookoutbox.blogspot.com/2010/11/nagios-installation-step-by-step_15.html>On
another note, it sounds like you just want a ping check to see if these
hosts are up?  Couldn't you dump ping results to a file, have the file
searched for UNREACHABLES and then use sendmail to email you if one of the
hosts doesn't show up?  Seems like maybe 20 lines of code or less (far less
I would think) would take care of this.

Chris

On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 10:23 AM, Ian Stokes-Rees <
ijstokes-/2FeUQLD3jedFdvTe/nMLpVzexx5G7lz at public.gmane.org> wrote:

>
>
> On 2/28/11 10:18 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> > One of my systems at work tends to drop its network connection. What I
> > need is a network monitoring tool. Certainly nagios will do the job, but
> > I'm looking for something more light weight that will simply check a
> > list of hosts periodically. I would like to run the monitoring software
> > from either my Windows laptop of one of the network servers.
>
> In my (admittedly very limited) experience, you think you just want
> something simple and lightweight and then quickly discover you actually
> need more and more features.  Nagios was designed for exactly this sort
> of thing.  While it isn't a "15 minute" solution, the ~half a day you'd
> spend getting a basic Nagios setup in place is probably worth it.
>
> Ian
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