Michael Ruiz wrote: > Hey folks, > > > > I had a situation recently that our network went down > and our Network Monitoring software did not notify us that the network > was down because the internet connection went down. We had a problem > with our carrier where they messed up on our /23(where our Network > Monitoring software resides), when they did a maintenance. What > transpired is our /23 was no longer routing to us. Is there a free ping > internet service, or something that we can pay a company that just sends > a ping to devices? If they fail to respond, then an email is sent to > us? Thank you folks. > > > > M.A.R > > Senior Network Engineer > > > > Let me ask this question from a different angle. Did you NMS notice the issue? If so, does your software require Internet to notify you?
I use just a simple modem(remember those?<GRIN>), a pots line and qpage to send 'out of band' notifications. Lyle Giese LCR Computer Services, Inc.
