Checking VPN status on remote machine

[Demetri Mouratis]

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Dan Spray wrote:

> Hello, I have a client that has a VPN between themselves and another office.
> I would like to monitor this VPN connection through Nagios as it is a
> mission critical app.

Why not add host entries for the VPN gateways on both sides and then set
up a parent relationship where the local VPN gateway is a parent to the
remote VPN gateway and the remote VPN gateway is a parent to some host on
the remote side.  Then just ping all three hosts and you will be set.
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Demetri Mouratis
dmourati at linfactory.com



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