network monitoring software

[Quiltface]

I need a free software that will basically send pings to a host and if it fails or time outs I want to be able to see what time that happened. And It needs to be able to run 24/7 while pinging about 30 hosts.

 

[AdmnPower]

Have you ever heard of nagios. It's a free monitoring software that's designed to run on a dedicated box to monitor your systems. (Linux based)

 

[Homenet]

Try smokeping.

OR:

go to dos and do a ping host.com -t (will ping infinitely)

and run wireshark at the same time with input/ouput bandwith graphs

 

[AdmnPower]

yeah, but i've seen continuous ping have time out issues after running a while just because the host gets overloaded even though it doesn't go offline. Besides I think he's looking for a periodic check rather than a continuous monitor. I dunno, what sounds better? In addition, what's smokeping... I've never heard of it.

 

[tlarkin]

I've used ActiveXperts in the past, check it out.

http://www.activexperts.com/

 

[Quiltface]

I ended up using freeping... I will check out the other software just for grins though.

 

[tlarkin]

I like getting emails to my blackberry when servers become unresponsive. I don't use any of the other features as I have a network guy that does all of that.

 

[Cuberuler]

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[AdmnPower]

Umm or they could just block the whole domain.