Troubleshooting connectivity

[Hugo van der Kooij]

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Mick wrote:
| Hi All,
|
| I want to monitor a network device (e.g. an IP camera) and when it
fails to be
| able to see which network link went down - the ISP network? the modem?
| router? or the camera itself?
|
| I would try to do this by e.g. running traceroute, or tcptraceroute,
but I am
| not sure how to do this and capture the info with Nagios.  I found the
| traceroute plugin, but this seems to offer a GUI traceroute facility
to be
| used in a browser, which is not what I'm after.

You need to rethink the solution. You need to add more hosts in there
that will represent your path to the camera and then use the parents
definition to make the path clear.

Hugo.

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