I agree with your comment about downloading a page from the server. As you point out, the only thing that Ping tells you is that the machine is switched on and is running ping!
Personally I wish this author would make the code available - I have e-mailed him and not received a reply. It sounds like a seriously cool script. If anyone knows of any similar scripts, please do post details here! | [reply] |
You might be able to achieve what you want with MRTG. Alternatively, I wrote some scripts a while back to produce this. A cronjob runs an LWP download from each site being measured on the hour, every hour. It simply measures download time from each site, sticks results in a flat file (not even a database). A cgi script calculates site performance averages, and displays a simple graph. So it's pretty lame, does'nt account properly for time-outs, but might get you started. Let me know if you want it.
| [reply] |
Yep...
MRTG could be a start. At least i know the ISP Singnet in
Singapore is using it. I am also using it now for my attachment
place.
I was asked to link it with html and perl script to make it
easier to configure thought the internal network without having to utilize
the VI editor which any windows users might not know how to use.
Running the crontab will allow you to run the mrtg programme
when you specify it to run, other than that, you can also
use the daemon in mrtg together with interval rate in MRTG
to do the same effect as a crontab will do. OR, a script to edit the crontab will do just fine.
| [reply] |
Please post it, if you don't mind. I'm looking for something like that to prove to a friend that it's his dial-up, not my web-site! :-)
-Chuck
| [reply] |
