Downtime Checker Program

Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sun Mar 13, 2005 8:01 pm

I just made a program, in about 2 days or so, which runs on linux and checks a list of hosts for their status. (online or offline) and if the status changes, it writes to the log, and executes a script which I can edit without recompiling.

I will use it not only to monitor certain host's statuses, but to monitor my internet, which since the 5mbit "upgrade" has been going off and on. (if multiple huge sites are reported down at once, 99.9% of chance is that it's my connection)

In the script I also made samba send a popup to my windows machine, so I will know in real-time as a host goes down! Still some debugging left to do but once I've tested it for a bit I may make it available to the public. Right now it's hard coded to check every 5 minutes, but I would make that configurable when released.

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Andy · Post by **Andy** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 5:15 am

Red whats your Internet provider? Cable or DSL.

For me I've switched to Road Runner Cable running 5Mbit

I did Have DSL but kept losing connection so i said forget that crap.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 12:41 pm

Sympatico ADSL. It used to be good, never went down.

Until they "upgraded" to 5mbps... they should of stayed at 1.0mbps, they basically gave away bandwidth they don't have by upgrading like that, since they just provided it, without actually changing their equpment and getting more bandwidth. I would not be suprised if they have like 1mbps per customer as total bandwidth.

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