Subj : Re: Network Monitoring
To   : Brian Rogers
From : Wilfred van Velzen
Date : Wed May 26 2021 06:52 pm

Hi Brian,

On 2021-05-26 12:22:00, you wrote to me:

 WvV>> If you are only interested in echomail links, you could use messages
 WvV>> in pkt files that have an AREA: line?

 BR> I'd only be interested in who's alive and who's not... and for me
 BR> personally those who are within 1:142 only. It's not up to me to police 
the
 BR> rest of the world :)

I think we are discussing different goals here... ;-)

You want to check if your downlinks are connectable. And August (I think) was 
looking for a nice way to visualize all the connections between fidonet 
systems. So you could see how echo and netmail flows through the net.

 WvV>> You could easily deduce that information by looking at your outbound
 WvV>> directory. ;)

 BR> That's not good enough. What if a sysop went away on business for a few
 BR> weeks and shut the power off - and forgot to tell me?

What's the difference between looking at what's in your outbound, and notice 
there are files for a system that have not been send because your mailer failed 
to connect to it; or doing a periodic ping to that system to find out if it's 
still online?

 BR> Whenever you do any sort of monitoring you must do your best to
 BR> protect against false positives or else you're true alarms get
 BR> naturally ignored.

Of course.

Bye, Wilfred.

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