Checking VPN status on remote machine

[Dan Spray]

Yes I could do that I guess except my nagios is off one of the external
interfaces of the customer pix.  So I believe, and correct me if I am wrong,
but by doing that I would just be able to ping the external interface and
would only know if the router itself lost connectivity to the Internet, not
if the VPN itself was down.

Dan

-----Original Message-----
From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Demetri
Mouratis
Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 3:14 PM
To: Dan Spray
Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Checking VPN status on remote machine

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Dan Spray wrote:

> Hello, I have a client that has a VPN between themselves and another
office.
> I would like to monitor this VPN connection through Nagios as it is a
> mission critical app.

Why not add host entries for the VPN gateways on both sides and then set
up a parent relationship where the local VPN gateway is a parent to the
remote VPN gateway and the remote VPN gateway is a parent to some host on
the remote side.  Then just ping all three hosts and you will be set.
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