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Text message alert for when a network device goes down.

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July 8, 2014 12:56:51 AM

I made a simple bash program that lives on my cubieboard and constantly pings network devices. If a device goes down, it sends you a text alert, likewise when it comes back up.

I wanted to polish the program and make it where you can run it on a web page. Would anyone in the industry find this useful?

This is a handy tool for me, but I figured I would ask others in the IT industry and see if it would be something they'd want.

Any feedback is appreciated. Thanks in advance!

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July 8, 2014 1:00:03 PM

There are a number of monitoring services out there already. You would have to add a lot of functionality to even make it "competitive". For example, just because a mail server responds to a ping doesn't mean that mail is being transferred.

However, I applaud you for creating something you found to be useful. That's the type of ingenuity/creativity that people need!
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July 12, 2014 1:37:31 PM

You should also be careful that you don't use more resources (bandwidth, cpu, whatever) monitoring than you do getting the actual work done.

If you want to look at something that is opensource that can do this type of status -- plus much more look at Nagios
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