Subj : Re: Network Monitoring
To   : Wilfred van Velzen
From : Brian Rogers
Date : Wed May 26 2021 02:29 pm

Hello Wilfred;

-=> Wilfred van Velzen wrote to Brian Rogers <=-

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

I would consider doing something as such a breach of security. See my
response to John. There's also way too many nodes to do this efficiently
even if you were to ignore the security aspect.

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

Because if I saw a backlog of mail, I'd use another means of communication
to see what's going on such as an actual voice call or text. Someting any
computerized automation is unable to accomplish. Monitoring "tools" are just
that - aids or tools to assist with a specific task. In Fido or any other
FTN, it's simply a hobby not a commercial enterprise. We need not care about
whether a node or point has a full second latency time or a 10 second latency
time. That's something more for your ISP to monitor and be proactive in
resolving so you don't have to open a trouble ticket with them... even though
most don't <G>

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