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Hello:
I'm looking for an inexpensive application to Monitor up / down status of my Firewall.  So far, the products I've found work inside the network and send an Email if a problem is detected.
I'm looking for an external solution, that can send a text

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Hi DP230,
Thanks for the reply.  
It looks like this software is installed inside the network.  If the Firewall Fails, ISP goes down etc, I would not get email correct?
you can configure the zabbix agent in a PC so that it can monitor the Internet connection, such as periodically ping to google.com

If the ISP goes down, the PC cannot access google.com, zabbix will send you a notification email
Thanks DP230.
I found a Web service that may resolve the issue for me https://dashboard.monitis.com/ 
I'm testing it now.
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I do recommend Nagios or Zabbix, they have flexibility to monitor anything you want. Zabbix is a powerfull tool.
You can enable SMS channel for notification. Check other resources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_network_monitoring_systems
https://www.paessler.com/
http://shinken-monitoring.org/
https://saltstack.com/
I use Spiceworks network monitoring tool: https://www.spiceworks.com/free-network-monitoring-management-software/
Same as the others, can be configured on a local device to monitor and e-mail reports of problems.
I'd like to thank everyone for submitting an answer to this question.  I'm going to try  Zabbix and see how it goes.

Thanks Again....

Paul