<Free Ping services that test your servers Availability from the Internet>
Hey folks, I had a situation recently that our network went down and our Network Monitoring software did not notify us that the network was down because the internet connection went down. We had a problem with our carrier where they messed up on our /23(where our Network Monitoring software resides), when they did a maintenance. What transpired is our /23 was no longer routing to us. Is there a free ping internet service, or something that we can pay a company that just sends a ping to devices? If they fail to respond, then an email is sent to us? Thank you folks. M.A.R Senior Network Engineer
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 9:14 AM, Michael Ruiz <mruiz@lstfinancial.com>wrote:
Hey folks,
I had a situation recently that our network went down and our Network Monitoring software did not notify us that the network was down because the internet connection went down. We had a problem with our carrier where they messed up on our /23(where our Network Monitoring software resides), when they did a maintenance. What transpired is our /23 was no longer routing to us. Is there a free ping internet service, or something that we can pay a company that just sends a ping to devices? If they fail to respond, then an email is sent to us? Thank you folks.
I generally recommend Pingdom (http://www.pingdom.com/). We used them at my last employer and they caught a few outages that we didn't even know about. -- Justin Rocha Xenith || xenith@xenith.org || http://xenith.org/
You could just build a nagios server at your house and use that for free. Not really "enterprise-level", but if you're just looking for a last ditch alert it should work just fine. -Richard -----Original Message----- From: Michael Ruiz [mailto:mruiz@lstfinancial.com] Sent: Friday, November 26, 2010 12:15 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: <Free Ping services that test your servers Availability from the Internet> Hey folks, I had a situation recently that our network went down and our Network Monitoring software did not notify us that the network was down because the internet connection went down. We had a problem with our carrier where they messed up on our /23(where our Network Monitoring software resides), when they did a maintenance. What transpired is our /23 was no longer routing to us. Is there a free ping internet service, or something that we can pay a company that just sends a ping to devices? If they fail to respond, then an email is sent to us? Thank you folks. M.A.R Senior Network Engineer
Michael Ruiz wrote:
Hey folks,
I had a situation recently that our network went down and our Network Monitoring software did not notify us that the network was down because the internet connection went down. We had a problem with our carrier where they messed up on our /23(where our Network Monitoring software resides), when they did a maintenance. What transpired is our /23 was no longer routing to us. Is there a free ping internet service, or something that we can pay a company that just sends a ping to devices? If they fail to respond, then an email is sent to us? Thank you folks.
M.A.R
Senior Network Engineer
Let me ask this question from a different angle. Did you NMS notice the issue? If so, does your software require Internet to notify you? I use just a simple modem(remember those?<GRIN>), a pots line and qpage to send 'out of band' notifications. Lyle Giese LCR Computer Services, Inc.
On 11/26/10 9:58 AM, Lyle Giese wrote:
Let me ask this question from a different angle. Did you NMS notice the issue? If so, does your software require Internet to notify you?
I use just a simple modem(remember those?<GRIN>), a pots line and qpage to send 'out of band' notifications.
Ah yes, the frequently overlooked "internet is required to notify when the internet is broken" problem. I use text-to-speech with Asterisk on a POTS line or PRI. Killing landlines is the cool thing to do these days, but if IP breaks that's when a POTS line still wins. ~Seth
Webmetrics provides such a service (full disclosure I used to work for these guys)... http://www.webmetrics.com/ Stefan Fouant Sent from my iPad On Nov 26, 2010, at 12:14 PM, "Michael Ruiz" <mruiz@lstfinancial.com> wrote:
Hey folks,
I had a situation recently that our network went down and our Network Monitoring software did not notify us that the network was down because the internet connection went down. We had a problem with our carrier where they messed up on our /23(where our Network Monitoring software resides), when they did a maintenance. What transpired is our /23 was no longer routing to us. Is there a free ping internet service, or something that we can pay a company that just sends a ping to devices? If they fail to respond, then an email is sent to us? Thank you folks.
M.A.R
Senior Network Engineer
An alternative would be Gomez GPN .. however all these are a bit of overkill for what you specifically need (uptime) - pingdom does very well for that. On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 12:59 AM, Stefan Fouant <sfouant@shortestpathfirst.net> wrote:
Webmetrics provides such a service (full disclosure I used to work for these guys)...
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