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Alert when the internet goes down

Asked by: carmodyk

Hello Experts,

my boss wants a monitoring tool of some king (the cheeper the better) to notify management, IT if the internet goes down.  Our company relies heavily on VOIP to do our work, and if the connection went down, we really really need to know.  

Any suggestions?

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2009-11-04 at 17:07:54ID24873194
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Internet uptime

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by: TheNauticanPosted on 2009-11-04 at 17:10:39ID: 25745905

Cheap? Use the poor mans network monitor....PING! :-)

 

by: xxdcmastPosted on 2009-11-04 at 17:20:26ID: 25745942

A few suggestions on things to use.

1. The dude - Free network monitoring solution. It can monito server, routers, etc and has the ability to do monitoying with SNMP and alerts.

http://www.mikrotik.com/thedude.php

2. Nagios - If you dont mind setting up a linux server you could try running this network monitor. I myself have never used it but others on here have and have had good things to say
http://www.nagios.org/

3. Solarwinds - Makes a whole suite of network and server monitoring tools. They have some free stuff available but if you wanna do netflow and voip monitoring you are going to have to purchase.

 

by: wjaegerPosted on 2009-11-04 at 17:22:37ID: 25745953

Google
FREEping

 

by: carmodykPosted on 2009-11-05 at 08:40:01ID: 25751253

Thanks fellas, the suggestions are all good, however however what I need is for a service/program that can ping the server to see if it's up or down.   If down, the whole office loses internet, so it either has to be a outside service that monitors us OR a program that can reside on a machine in the office that stays up all the time and dials out a message to who needs it.  

 

by: BitsqueezerPosted on 2009-11-07 at 10:30:22ID: 25767425

Hi,

you can do this with Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 which can test services, Internet, a web site, whatever you want and it has preconfigured management packs for everything around Microsoft.

The cheaper variant of this tool is the System Center Essentials which has a WSUS as addon.

Nagios as mentioned by xxdcmast above (which is OpenSource) can do the same as far as I know but is not preconfigured.

They run on their own servers so they can watch any other service on servers and even on clients if you want.

Cheers,

Christian

 

by: carmodykPosted on 2010-01-04 at 09:24:48ID: 26172831

Thanks for your input, everyone.  But we've decided to use basicstate.com to monitor our internet.  It pings our server every fifteen minutes for free.  It's not great, but for free it will do.  

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