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I am looking for a bash script which will dispatch an email when a server goes down. This script would be placed on 2 separate servers and when one server ...
- 07-25-2008 #1Just Joined!
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Bash: Down Notification
I am looking for a bash script which will dispatch an email when a server goes down. This script would be placed on 2 separate servers and when one server goes down (http, dns, or ping) then the other server would dispatch an email to the admins of that server.
Any help would be appreciated...scripting is not my specialty.
- 07-25-2008 #2Trusted Penguin
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I Googled for "notify when server goes down linux" (no quotes) and I found a program called Nagios:
Nagios: Home
A little tutorial (which I haven't read):
Linux.com :: SysAdmin to SysAdmin: Service monitoring with Nagios
Try Googling for solutions in the future, especially ones that are somewhat common.DISTRO=Arch
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- 07-25-2008 #3Just Joined!
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I spent about 15 minutes googling but did not find anything that met my needs. I'll take a look at that program you found and see how it will fit
- 07-25-2008 #4Linux User
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If those two servers are redundant servers to each other, you can try heartbeat. I am using it to provide full auto-failover between two postfix email servers.
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I got nagios running now and it is exactly what I needed. As for heartbeat, currently they are not redundant servers. One is a development server which only backs up essential files and the other is a production server.
At any rate - problem solved and thank you both for the help ^^
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