Re: Is there an easy way to monitor for Internet failures?

[Pete Helgren <pete@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I have been using Nagios for years.  Open Source, very flexible, plenty
of plugins.  I monitor my IBM i as well as our remote websites hosted by
Rackspace in Chicago.  A little dicey to set up but pretty rock solid
once you are up and running.  Linux based.

Pete Helgren
www.petesworkshop.com
GIAC Secure Software Programmer-Java

On 11/23/2015 9:19 AM, Steinmetz, Paul wrote:
> Is there an easy way to monitor for Internet failures?
> On Friday morning, Level3 had a major outage, which in turn was causing intermittent failures for our Curbstone credit card system which runs on our i5.
> It was 4 hours before we were notified that Level3 was the source of the issue and no problem of ours.
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/11/20/level3_outages_reported_in_us/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
>
> Curbstone uses a URL, which rotates to any one of 6 ips, spread across the US.
> When the IP was used that was in the Level3 outage area is when we noticed intermittent failures.
>
> Thank You
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