Cacti is definitely more than what you're asking for, no question about
that. You could, of course, craft a simple script that resides on your
home machine running periodically that logs when it is unable to reach
the outside world. I would craft such a thing myself for my home
connection as soon as I get the time to make the time travel device so I
could have the time to craft said script. :D

Thanks Tom for reminding me that the RRD databases can have the default
precision changed.

mdk

Allen S. Rout wrote:
>>> On Mon, 2 Apr 2007 15:21:44 -0400, "N.J. Thomas" <[log in to unmask]> said:
>
> [ ... ]
>
> Oy.
>
> Well, I really appreciate the feedback; My own investiagtions had only
> turned up things which felt like a swiss-army-toolbox when I thought I
> wanted a screwdriver. Your kind advice is well taken, but it sounds
> sort of like "No, you need a swiss-army HUMMWV!", With all the
> toppings. Don't get me wrong: I'm a nagios True Believer. But..
>
>
> crepe ~ # emerge -p cacti
>
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>
> Calculating dependencies... done!
> [ebuild N ] perl-core/Sys-Syslog-0.18
> [ebuild N ] app-admin/webapp-config-1.50.15
> [ebuild N ] dev-libs/libmcrypt-2.5.7
> [ebuild N ] app-admin/php-toolkit-1.0-r2
> [ebuild N ] media-libs/t1lib-5.0.2 USE="X -doc"
> [ebuild N ] dev-db/mysql-init-scripts-1.2
> [ebuild N ] dev-perl/Net-Daemon-0.39
> [ebuild N ] net-analyzer/rrdtool-1.2.15-r3 USE="perl python -doc -rrdcgi -tcl (-uclibc)"
> [ebuild N ] dev-db/mysql-5.0.26-r2 USE="berkdb perl ssl -big-tables -cluster -debug -embedded -extraengine -latin1 -max-idx-128 -minimal (-selinux) -static"
> [ebuild N ] dev-lang/php-5.2.1-r3 USE="apache2 berkdb bzip2 cli crypt gdbm iconv ipv6 kerberos ldap ncurses nls pcre readline reflection session spell spl ssl truetype xml zlib -adabas -apache -bcmath -birdstep -calendar -cdb -cgi -cjk -concurrentmodphp -ctype -curl -curlwrappers -db2 -dbase -dbmaker -debug -discard-path -doc -empress -empress-bcs -esoob -exif -fastbuild -fdftk -filter -firebird -flatfile -force-cgi-redirect -frontbase -ftp -gd -gd-external -gmp -hash -imap -inifile -interbase -iodbc -java-external -json -ldap-sasl -libedit -mcve -mhash -msql -mssql -mysql -mysqli -oci8 -oci8-instant-client -odbc -pcntl -pdo -pdo-external -pic -posix -postgres -qdbm -recode -sapdb -sharedext -sharedmem -simplexml -snmp -soap -sockets -solid -sqlite -suhosin -sybase -sybase-ct -sysvipc -threads -tidy -tokenizer -unicode -wddx -xmlreader -xmlrpc -xmlwriter -xpm -xsl -yaz -zip -zip-external"
> [ebuild N ] dev-perl/PlRPC-0.2018
> [ebuild N ] virtual/perl-Sys-Syslog-0.18
> [ebuild N ] virtual/mysql-5.0
> [ebuild N ] dev-perl/DBI-1.53
> [ebuild N ] net-analyzer/cacti-0.8.6i-r1 USE="apache2 -apache -snmp -vhosts"
> [ebuild N ] dev-perl/DBD-mysql-3.0008
>
>
>
> "I'm looking for link reliability monitoring"
>
> "You need all the power of PERL -AND- PHP.
> and mysql.
> aaaaaand RRD. Also.
> Oh. and this chair.
> and... a wafer thin mint."
>
> I'm going to go hide, and cook something up in shell.
>
>
> - Allen S. Rout
> - Bucket!