I just started internet service with my cities wifi network. It's 19.99 a month compared to Time Warner for $55/month. It's suppose to be 1M up and down.
I'm using a bridge to receive with a router/ap to send it wirelessly through the house.
I'd like to monitor the network for downtimes and was curious about a tool to do this.
What tool is out there that allows me to ping a web site or the geteway periodically and log times where the ping is not returned?
thanks
Dave
Wireless monitoring is so much fun.
The easiest is something like FreePing:
It just pings a host and tabulates the results. There are plenty of others available.
At the other end of the complexity spectrum, I use MRTG and RRDTool graphing with PingProbe to plot the latency on a graph.
Ping latency is the least that can be monitored. Much more interesting is traffic in both directions and any SNMP OID's or scripts. There's also:
Plenty more under "network monitoring tools".
Thanks again!!
You might take a look as Servers Alive @
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