network monitor tool

I just started internet service with my cities wifi network.
It's 19.99 a month compared to Time Warner for $55/month.
It's suppose to be 1M up and down.

I'm using a bridge to receive with a router/ap to send it wirelessly
through the house.

I'd like to monitor the network for downtimes and was curious about a
tool to do this.

What tool is out there that allows me to ping a web site or the
geteway periodically and log times where the ping is not returned?

thanks

Dave

On 13 Mar 2007 16:38:14 -0700, "dave" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>I just started internet service with my cities wifi network.
>It's 19.99 a month compared to Time Warner for $55/month.
>It's suppose to be 1M up and down.
>
>I'm using a bridge to receive with a router/ap to send it wirelessly
>through the house.
>
>I'd like to monitor the network for downtimes and was curious about a
>tool to do this.

Wireless monitoring is so much fun.

>What tool is out there that allows me to ping a web site or the
>geteway periodically and log times where the ping is not returned?

The easiest is something like FreePing:
<http://www.tools4ever.com/products/free/freeping/>
It just pings a host and tabulates the results. There are plenty of
others available.

At the other end of the complexity spectrum, I use MRTG and RRDTool
graphing with PingProbe to plot the latency on a graph.
<http://oss.oetiker.ch/mrtg/3party.en.html>
<http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/>
<http://martybugs.net/wireless/rrdtool/>
Ping latency is the least that can be monitored. Much more
interesting is traffic in both directions and any SNMP OID's or
scripts. There's also:
<http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/>
<http://www.paessler.com/prtg/>
Plenty more under "network monitoring tools".


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On Mar 13, 7:23 pm, Jeff Liebermann <j...@comix.santa-cruz.ca.us>
wrote:
> On 13 Mar 2007 16:38:14 -0700, "dave" <bonanza...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >I just started internet service with my cities wifi network.
> >It's 19.99 a month compared to Time Warner for $55/month.
> >It's suppose to be 1M up and down.
>
> >I'm using a bridge to receive with a router/ap to send it wirelessly
> >through the house.
>
> >I'd like to monitor the network for downtimes and was curious about a
> >tool to do this.
>
> Wireless monitoring is so much fun.
>
> >What tool is out there that allows me to ping a web site or the
> >geteway periodically and log times where the ping is not returned?
>
> The easiest is something like FreePing:
> <http://www.tools4ever.com/products/free/freeping/>
> It just pings a host and tabulates the results. There are plenty of
> others available.
>
> At the other end of the complexity spectrum, I use MRTG and RRDTool
> graphing with PingProbe to plot the latency on a graph.
> <http://oss.oetiker.ch/mrtg/3party.en.html>
> <http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/>
> <http://martybugs.net/wireless/rrdtool/>
> Ping latency is the least that can be monitored. Much more
> interesting is traffic in both directions and any SNMP OID's or
> scripts. There's also:
> <http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/>
> <http://www.paessler.com/prtg/>
> Plenty more under "network monitoring tools".
>
> --
> # Jeff Liebermann 150 Felker St #D Santa Cruz CA 95060
> # 831-336-2558 j...@comix.santa-cruz.ca.us
> #http://802.11junk.com j...@cruzio.com
> #http://www.LearnByDestroying.com AE6KS

Thanks again!!

"dave" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>I just started internet service with my cities wifi network.
>It's 19.99 a month compared to Time Warner for $55/month.
>It's suppose to be 1M up and down.
>
>I'm using a bridge to receive with a router/ap to send it wirelessly
>through the house.
>
>I'd like to monitor the network for downtimes and was curious about a
>tool to do this.
>
>What tool is out there that allows me to ping a web site or the
>geteway periodically and log times where the ping is not returned?
>
You might take a look as Servers Alive @ www.woodstone.nu. GREAT
program I've been using it for years. Does all you want and much much
more... Many different ways of sending alarm.. Logs and workes well
with syslogd.