Re: [BackupPC-users] Another idea for 2.0

[Gary E. <gev...@de...>]

cba...@us... wrote:

>>You know, it'd be really handy if I were to get an email whenever pings
>>failed to certain hosts. There should be a flag I can set on a host to
>>indicate that it should never go down. (From my backuppc web interface: 
>>"# Pings to mail have succeeded 2637 consecutive times.") Then, if a ping
>>fails to one of these hosts, backuppc will become quite upset and email
>>me. If, in an hour or so, backuppc still can't ping this host, it'll send
>>another email. 
>>
>>It would also be nice if these emails could be sent to someplace other
>>than the default admin address, so I could send it to a cell phone.
>>
>>I know it's a bell xor whistle that's a little outside the development
>>scope of backuppc, but it sure would be handy.
>>    
>>
>
>This is a little too far outside the scope of BackupPC.  I'm sure
>there are various open source network utilities that do what you
>want.
>
>Craig
>
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>
Have a look at nagios. It does this admirably. www.nagios.org.

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