How to check Internet access and/or DNS?

[Marc Haber]

On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 04:34:34PM +1300, Steve Shipway wrote:
> So many different ways to do this.  We do it thusly.
> 
> 1) Set up a host for your border router.
> 2) Within this, sefine a number of http check services that try to collect
> web pages from popular internet sites ( google, microsoft, ibm...).  Disable
> notifications on them.
> 3) Use check_summary (from nagiosexchange.org) to define a service which is
> OK if any of the http check services are OK, and critical if they are all
> down.

That's a quite neat idea. I like that. Thanks!

Greetings
Marc

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