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Monitoring "internet"

list Alan Sparks
Wed, 05 Aug 2009 09:36:25 -0600
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Josh Luthman wrote:
Not to my knowledge, but I've never read the man page looking for that
method.

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On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Ricardo Stella <user-a9f2fdfdbc44@xymon.invalid
<mailto:user-a9f2fdfdbc44@xymon.invalid>> wrote:

    Can these be combined as well? Ie do multiple http checks and go red
    only if all fail?

    TIA...

    Josh Luthman wrote:
Might also want to do some HTTP checks.  If your router's NAT table
has problems, connection limits are hit, etc.  Pretty much anything
TCP based but doing an HTTP request to Google should satisfy and
    be easy.

Josh Luthman
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"When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains,
    however
improbable, must be the truth."
--- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Ricardo Stella
    <user-a9f2fdfdbc44@xymon.invalid <mailto:user-a9f2fdfdbc44@xymon.invalid>
<mailto:user-a9f2fdfdbc44@xymon.invalid <mailto:user-a9f2fdfdbc44@xymon.invalid>>> wrote:


    Hello,

    We have a request to monitor 'internet' connectivity.  (When
    it comes
    from higherups...)

    Just pinging up the line might not be good enough as we've
    had issues
    with our providers in the recent past.  So I figured ping
    several well
    known hosts out in the cloud and if all are out, then we have no
    'internet'.

    I came out with the following.  Seems to work, but figure I
    run it
    thru
    the list in case someone else has done this already...

    page internet Internet Connectivity
    127.0.0.1  INTERNET # conn=ip1,ip2,ip3,ip4,ip5


    TIA...

    
You might be able to fake it to enough satisfaction... using a combo
test.  You might want to put the tests on a separate page, maybe explore
the NOPROPRED options.  Make sure that the individual tests don't
trigger alarms.  set up a combo test to go red if the tests all go red,
and set off an alert.  Just a thought.
-Alan