daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lyle Giese)
Fri Nov 26 12:58:09 2010
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 11:58:03 -0600
From: Lyle Giese <lyle@lcrcomputer.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <16E58A1FE7C64A46BAD0FE1558C43D920129FB65@es1.ic-sa.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Michael Ruiz wrote:
> Hey folks,
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> 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.
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> M.A.R
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> Senior Network Engineer
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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.
