you can monitor your router point-to-point ip or public gateway (you can grab this info from your provider technical documentation).

also you can discover it with traceroute command (it's always the sencod hop).

maybe emailping zenpack can help you....

MSN: andrea.consadori@hotmail.it

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Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 16:24:16 -0400

From: community@zenoss.org

To: andrea.consadori@hotmail.it

Subject: Re: Monitoring Internet Connection Monitoring Internet Connection

 

I thought about doing that.  But it's limited.

 

We recently had an outage that left the point-to-point connection between us and the ISP NOC fully functional but the NOC itself had lost a link.  Pinging some highly connected service providers that aren't likely to go down all at once seems like it would give a better picture of the status of the Internet link.

 

Is there a way to group the devices together so as to look like one device?  Or perhaps have one device called "Internet" that has several IP's that it pings in round-robin fashion?

 

Thanks,

Ryan

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i know, email ping is not the response but maybe with email ping i can understand if connectivity is ok because i can monitor the full email flow

MSN: andrea.consadori@hotmail.it

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Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 22:10:36 -0400

From: community@zenoss.org

To: andrea.consadori@hotmail.it

Subject: Re: Monitoring Internet Connection Monitoring Internet Connection

 

EmailPing is not exactly what you are trying to do by combining multiple ping destinations into one event source, but it is along those lines and you may find it helpful... EmailPing - Monitor your Email-based Alerting Mechanism (docs/DOC-5853)

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you can implement manually device dependancy buy the problem is the ping order....

you can also use transform event but ping order is always the problem....

maybe you can have

device a -- device b -- device c -- device d

can happen that device b fail because zenping check it first, and then will check device a and c... so you can have no warning until next zenping cicle

MSN: andrea.consadori@hotmail.it

WEB: http://www.consadori.com

Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 12:29:48 -0400

From: community@zenoss.org

To: andrea.consadori@hotmail.it

Subject: Re: Monitoring Internet Connection Monitoring Internet Connection

 

I looked at the email ping option and it is intriguing but you're still dependant on that email system that you choose to 'ping'.  If their system is down, it doesn't necessarily mean that the whole Internet connection is out.  It would be useful to know if your email system for alerts is still operating though and I may implement it for those purposes.

 

Thanks for the ideas.  I think I'm going to try and implement something with Mon/snpp outside of Zenoss.

 

Perhaps a future feature enhancement would be to give the option to alert when device a AND device b AND device c....etc. all go down.

 

Ryan

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