debian user wrote:
i would like to set up a ping server for my office. I however have not found a simple way of recieving a responce of "dead" or "alive". I am not to concerned about time etc? I just want to ping a few servers and then send the results out in a email to a few key personal. Right now I am doing "echo ping -c 3 server-name > file" for half a dozen boxes then i email the file to sevel people periodicly during the day. I would like it to be a little eaiser to read i.e. "dead" or "alive" after the server name.
You can use the returnvalue of ping to get some information: dev2:~# ping -c 2 localhost PING dev2 (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=0.0 ms 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=0.0 ms
--- dev2 ping statistics --- 2 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max = 0.0/0.0/0.0 ms dev2:~# echo $? 0 dev2:~# ping -c 2 unknownhostname ping: unknown host unknownhostname dev2:~# echo $? 2 dev2:~# ping -c 2 10.0.0.230 (dead IP) PING 10.0.0.230 (10.0.0.230): 56 data bytes
--- 10.0.0.230 ping statistics --- 2 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss dev2:~# echo $? 1
Otherwise, look at Big Brother at www.bb4.org. It does some of the same, just more indepth.Just because your server answers ping, it doesn't mean that apache can't be dead ;)
Venlig hilsen Martin Seebach
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