ow...@netptc.net on 14/05/10 15:06, wrote:
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 12:28:54AM +0100, Adam Hardy uttered:
I figure this is probably something I would have to script myself
because I can't find anything useful looking out there, but I thought
I'd ask before I try (or perhaps before I procrastinate again):
I have a machine here at home running some 24x5 programs which I really
need to keep up and running, along with my broadband so it can get its
datafeeds.
I figured I could run a program on my webserver to ping my home machine
regularly and in case it starts to slow down, lose packets or die
completely, it could send me an SMS to alert me to the fact.
Is there something like this already in existence?
Not sure as I'm going from memory. Webmin had/has a heartbeat monitor
plug-in and if memory serves it had a way to notify a phone number,
e-mail address etc. I assume it's not that important to be SMS
necessarily?
Webmin AFAIK is not in Debian anymore; but you can get it upstream or
perhaps look at the heartbeat application in Debian to see what it has
for remote notification.
Isn't this what SNMP was designed for?
There was probably a lot more that it was designed for. Plus one of the first
things to appear in google:
"Despite its acronym, SNMP is not exactly simple! In fact, it never ceases to
amaze me how much of a black art implementing and using SNMP"
I don't necessarily want to avoid it, it's just got that 'can-of-worms' sort of
feel to it and I'm hoping I only need the little script in bash. Or at least I
did until I realised I'd have to tie ping together with dyndns.org and
smsclient. Possibly a brainer. I mean, not a no-brainer.
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