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jimbus
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I'm pretty sure I can figure out what packages to use by searching cpan... what I'm really looking for is advise, best practices and such, so I can get it right the first time. There's a bit of pressure.
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A county worker apparent didn't call before he/she dug and took out a whole bunch of our fiber and took down voice and data for Oklahoma and parts of Texas... which understandably made the Veep of networks a bit cranky, especially since our expensive alarming system never paged us.
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So the idea is to set up a dedicated server that will ping all of our network elements and send SNMP traps to our alarming server when there is an issue. I'm currently reading about Net::Ping and Net::SNMP and should be able to figure something out on this. But the problem is I really don't have any experience with monitoring networks. What I need is advise from people who have done something like this.
<li>Do I just set up a loop with a sleep in it and just ping each machine? <li>Do I send a trap each time I get a failed ping or should there be a so-many second tolerance?<li> Are the Modules listed the best for the job? <li>Are there any patterns or best practices or tutorials on this subject I should be checking into?
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<p>Thanks</p>
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--Jimbus aka Jim Babcock
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Wireless Data Engineer and Geek Wannabe
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jim-dot-babcock-at-usa-dot-com
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