Ping Fail Notification (E-mail)

[mbird]

Were having a few problems here with servers going down overnight (when no one is here) and at weekends.

Now the problem with the servers is with the suppliers, but in the mean time it would be good to be notified when they went down.

 

Just wondering if there is a simple programme that can be run in the background to ping the servers and send an e-mail when they go down.

 

any ideas?

 

mb

[mattx]

Did this a while ago - may help.....

 

No Ping

[webman]

We have Monit installed on a Linux server and it monitors the service ports (as well as ICMP ping) for all our internal devices (servers, switches, APs etc) and sends an email on failures.

[mbird]

Well, i may have a look at that, unfortunately as we only have server 03/08 it could be tricky.

[truslack]

How about OP SmartMonitor? http://www.edugeek.net/forums/networks/42682-my-little-server-monitor.html

[mbird]

thanks, but im not sure that's quite what i'm after.

 

What we need is a programme to e-mail us so we can note when it goes down, and so it can e-mail us to i can pick it up on BB or e-mail at home. or at least have a fairly accurate time when it came down so we can look at logs, etc.

[andy_b]

something like this unsophsticated batch file method?

 

 

REM Compare results of ping command when server is off and the current status
REM If they are the same assume server is off and send email
REM off1.log is the result of "Ping SERVER1-IP" when the server can't be contacted
REM bmail from http://www.beyondlogic.org/solutions/cmdlinemail/cmdlinemail.htm
REM sleep from Windows 2003 Resource Kit

@echo off

:Start

REM Server 1
ping SERVER1-IP >live1.log
fc off1.log live1.log >nul
if errorlevel 1  (
bmail -s SMTP-SERVER -t TO -f FROM -h -a "Server 1 Down" -b "Opps, Server 1 down at %time%"
)

REM Server 2
ping SERVER2-IP >live2.log
fc off2.log live2.log >nul
if errorlevel 1 (
bmail -s SMTP-SERVER -t TO -f FROM -h -a "Server 2 Down" -b "Opps, Server 2 down at %time%" 
)

REM ETC.....


REM Wait 60 seconds
Sleep 60

REM Return
goto start

[MatthewL]

We use P-Ping, have 3 servers running this tool and it monitors out 170 firewalls/sites plus a few other key things. Emails sent roughly every 6 minutes by the time it has gone through its cycle we have. Can often walk into several thousand emails after the weekend. Only tend to pay attention when we have 3 pings or more from site.