monitoring external internet connectivity

[Johannes Dagemark]

shadih rahman wrote:
> All,
>   What is the best way to check if our network has connection to 
> commodity internet or not.  What I am trying to achieve is to ensure 
> internal network has connection to Internet.  One thing is to ping 
> google check.  Is this a good idea or can someone suggest a better way 
> to do this.  Please advise on this.  Thanks
>
I created an extremely simple plugin that takes several hosts as 
argument and if one of them is up, Internet is considered to be up

its available at 
http://git.op5.org/git/?p=nagios/op5plugins.git;a=blob_plain;f=check_internet.sh;hb=HEAD

cheers
Johannes
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> Cordially,
> Shadhin Rahman
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