[hobbit] Monitoring "internet"

[Ricardo Stella]

Can these be combined as well? Ie do multiple http checks and go red
only if all fail?

TIA...

Josh Luthman wrote:
> Might also want to do some HTTP checks.  If your router's NAT table
> has problems, connection limits are hit, etc.  Pretty much anything
> TCP based but doing an HTTP request to Google should satisfy and be easy.
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> On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Ricardo Stella <stella at rider.edu
> <mailto:stella at rider.edu>> wrote:
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>
>     Hello,
>
>     We have a request to monitor 'internet' connectivity.  (When it comes
>     from higherups...)
>
>     Just pinging up the line might not be good enough as we've had issues
>     with our providers in the recent past.  So I figured ping several well
>     known hosts out in the cloud and if all are out, then we have no
>     'internet'.
>
>     I came out with the following.  Seems to work, but figure I run it
>     thru
>     the list in case someone else has done this already...
>
>     page internet Internet Connectivity
>     127.0.0.1  INTERNET # conn=ip1,ip2,ip3,ip4,ip5
>
>
>     TIA...
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