Hosts with no services?

Subhendu Ghosh sghosh at sghosh.org
Thu Jun 26 14:32:51 CEST 2003


On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Rob Nelson wrote:

> 
> >I think I agree with Jim.  I guess I don't see why you would care if a
> >system was up if you didn't care about at least one service - unless
> >that 'service' is keeping the room warm.  Why not pull the power cord
> >now?  If you're not responsible for making sure the system is up or
> >tracking some metric about specific services then why even configure it
> >in Nagios?
> 
> I monitor wireless access points. What I *really* want to know is if 
> traffic is being passed by the WAP, and ideally I'd be monitoring a client 
> behind it, but that's not possible. For me, a check_ping is sufficient to 
> know that traffic is going up and down the line. By pinging all the devices 
> in a chain, I can find out where the problem starts (even if everything 
> behind a dead host is dead as well, it gives me a place to start). 
> Honestly, our biggest problem is power surges that put switches or WAP's in 
> an error state that doesn't pass traffic. I'd kill for really cheap and 
> small UPS's that would last just 30 seconds :)
> 


I tend to use snmp to monitor the traffic and the root-bridge-id on the 
APs specially if they are on their on vlan...

Have you looked at the APCC CyberFort ups/surge protector?

-sg

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