Supervise a dial UP host

[Stanley Hopcroft]

Dear Folks,

On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 08:45:00AM -0800, nagios-users-request at lists.sourceforge.net wrote:
> 
> Message: 12
> Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 07:47:40 -0500 (EST)
> From: Tom Diehl <tdiehl at rogueind.com>
> To: Andreas Koch <a.koch at eurodata.de>
> Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Re: Supervise a dial UP host
> 
> On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Andreas Koch wrote:
> 
> > I would supervise a dial-up host with nagios.  
> > 
> > Did this already someone solve?  
> 
> Not as far as I can tell. I have asked similar questions about this several
> times over the last several months and received zero replies. :-(

Hmm. I thought I had replied but it's possible I misunderstood the
question.

Do you mean checking a dialup _server_ (RAS/NAS) - one that terminates
PPP sessions with clients after authenticating them and setting up their
IP/TCP parameters ? This is doable.

Or a host that has a temporary network connection, but when it's
connected you want to be able to check that it stays up and reachable,
as well as checking the health of the services it provides ?

An example of such a host might help me understand the situation.

It is hard to imagine monitoring under such cercumstances since if it is
an important enough server to monitor, either provide it with a
permanent connection or reconfigure Nagios when the host is connected.

You are not talking about a web service are you ?

> If you do find a good solutiom I would be interested in it. I was previouly
> using Big Brother and it had dialup support built in.

Would you describe what BB does to offer dialup support.

> I wish I was good enough to modify the code to do this but alas I am not.

How big is the code ?
What language       ?

> Good luck,
> 
> .....Tom
> 
>

Yours sincerely. 

-- 
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Stanley Hopcroft
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continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a
manor of thy friend's or of thine own were. Any man's death diminishes
me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know
for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee...'

from Meditation 17, J Donne.


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