Simple LAN IP monitor
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Hi
Is there a simple LAN IP monitor tool that can log ping response and if fail, then send an e-mail?
I want to make sure that I know if a desired LAN device has been offline, before my users does :)Thanks.
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No, there isn't a good way to do that. Some people have attempted to use the gateway monitoring system to reach that sort of effect but it's not ideal. You are better off using a dedicated NMS-style system. If you don't want to put something on their network, host it elsewhere and allow it to connect through over VPN.
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smokeping can do that, as mentioned there are lots of nms things that can do that, prtg will do it, observium can do it (free version doesn't do alerting that I am aware of). prtg has a free 100 sensor version.
Don't you currently have a NMS?? If not would really look into something.. to monitor a lot more than just ping. I get alerts from prtg running at home for just my home network.. From there I know when anything goes down… Other than if internet goes down I can not get the alerts out ;) But I have outside monitoring for that..
You could run something on a little raspberry pi if cost is an issue ;)Â I have observium running on pi3 and its working pretty freaking could for monitor a small network.
Im with JimP pfsense not really a place for your NMS.. You can take a look at librenms which is a fork of observium that does include alerting in the free version.
