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Posted: 10/11/2016 5:52:34 PM EDT

I have a remote location that seems cursed. Everything is good, everything is good, FML, everything is good....

The HP 1820-8 switch is showing 33 days uptime and no incoming or outgoing errors. The user claims to get better service on wifi (which runs back to the same Fortinet 60 that the switch does)

I need something to put in place that will do some seriously paranoid ping tests of everything from the computers and printers, to the switches, router and their primary application's web host. Maybe a ping packet every 5-10 seconds. to a dozen targets with success/failure logging and maybe log file emailing.

I have an old desktop I can drop either a linux or windows install on for this.

Any suggestions?

ETA....

Maybe PRTG? Pulling a copy now to see just what it does.

Posted: 10/11/2016 6:52:56 PM EDT

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PRTG would be a good start. Nagios Core with Cacti is another option, beware typical OpenSource friendly setup.

Posted: 10/11/2016 7:42:07 PM EDT

[#2]

PRTG is great. SNMP and Netflow free up to 100 devices.

Posted: 10/11/2016 10:05:41 PM EDT

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I tried setting up Nagios once... Think I got it working on one system more by mistake than anything.

Posted: 10/11/2016 10:08:09 PM EDT

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I tried setting up Nagios once... Think I got it working on one system more by mistake than anything.

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PRTG would be a good start. Nagios Core with Cacti is another option, beware typical OpenSource friendly setup.

I tried setting up Nagios once... Think I got it working on one system more by mistake than anything.

Right? My former job they used Nagios for all the monitoring, but I suspect it was only used because the source code became the framework for a dev team of like 30 guys to build what was really needed.

Posted: 10/12/2016 8:19:30 AM EDT

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PRTG is a great option. I just deployed it at my office to start replacing ZENOSS core. It's just much more capable.

Posted: 10/12/2016 1:12:36 PM EDT

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Out network group uses SolarWinds which is an enterprise solution. My group uses Nagios and has for years. Nagios is a giant pain in the butt but it works. PRTG is pretty decent and on my radar to replace what we currently have.

Posted: 10/12/2016 1:43:35 PM EDT

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SolarWinds is really preferred.. but that price tag

Posted: 10/13/2016 9:30:42 AM EDT

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For really quick and dirty, we sometimes run this from a cron job. It could be worked over a little to have it loop and sleep instead of being launched by cron constantly. If you want to ping every 15 seconds, you obviously don't want a failure email every 15 seconds, so it also should probably direct to a file, keep a failure counter, and only email the file when the failure counter hits a certain level. Actually, I can think of several improvements I should make to it when I have time.


#!/bin/bash



function ping_check {

  ping -c 1 $1

  if [ $? -gt 0 ]

  then

    echo "$2" | mail -s "$2" [email protected]

  fi

}





ping_check 10.10.11.21 "esx09 Ping Failure"



ping_check 10.2.1.7 "dfw-1002-r5 Ping Failure"

Posted: 10/13/2016 2:25:08 PM EDT

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Out network group uses SolarWinds which is an enterprise solution. My group uses Nagios and has for years. Nagios is a giant pain in the butt but it works. PRTG is pretty decent and on my radar to replace what we currently have.

SolarWinds is really preferred.. but that price tag

Those unlimited licenses don't come cheap. I've got one for NPM, NTA, NCM.

Might be able to find out the problem with a solarwinds demo, but you will have sales on your ass like white on rice.

Use that to persuade management you need money for tools.

Posted: 10/13/2016 4:11:39 PM EDT

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I used a solarwinds quote to get PRTG approved.

Posted: 10/13/2016 9:47:27 PM EDT

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Just one user complaining....I'd replace their network cable, betting it's coming out for some reason.

Posted: 10/14/2016 10:30:43 AM EDT

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As much as that is a likely answer, given the shoddy state of their infrastructure, I don't think its the root. It doesn't explain my VPN link into their network dropping at the same time this user was having a problem.

I'm suspecting router or ISP failure, but want to collect everything I can to disprove other theories too.

Posted: 10/15/2016 10:45:56 AM EDT

[#13]

Power flickering?
Got a UPS there?

Posted: 10/18/2016 9:41:12 PM EDT

[#14]

Sounds to me like a raspberry pie with some basic scripts kind of problem to me. That's what I would do anyway. It can do all you want and more and pretty easily.

Posted: 10/18/2016 9:45:24 PM EDT

[#15]

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