[K12OSN] Script for checking if servers are up.

Huck dhuckaby at paasda.org
Thu Oct 18 17:44:37 UTC 2007


throw in a 'foreach' ?
and list your IP addresses? I don't know 'script syntax'...
but that is what I'd do.. in Ruby thinking anyway.

--Huck

Doug Simpson wrote:
> I am trying to make a script that will ping servers and if they are down, send a message. If they are up it won't send a message.
> 
> The problem I am having is if there are more than one, it won't work.
> 
> Here is a sample of my script:
> **********sample begins below*************
> while (true)
> do
> sleep 30
> if ping -i 3 -c 3 192.168.0.222
> then
> continue
> else
> echo "192.168.0.222 down!" | mail -s "222 down" veewee77 at alltel.net 
> break
> fi
> done
> **********sample ends above***************
> 
> 
> If I add a second (or more) to it, it fails to work properly.
> **********broken sample begins below********
> while (true)
> do
> sleep 30
> if ping -i 3 -c 3 192.168.0.222
> then
> continue
> else
> echo "192.168.0.222 down!" | mail -s "222 down" me at here.there 
> break
> fi
> if ping -i 3 -c 3 192.168.0.223
> then
> continue
> else
> echo "192.168.0.223 down!" |mail -s "223 down" me at here.there
> done
> ***********broken sample ends above**************
> 
> Obviously a bogus email address, but it is for reference.
>  Any ideas?
> 
> Doug
> 
> Doug Simpson
> Technology Specialist
> De Queen Public Schools
> De Queen, AR
> simpsond at leopards.k12.ar.us
> 
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