tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438338898890661836.post-75457577703124189082007-10-01T11:57:00.000+01:002007-10-01T11:57:00.000+01:00Looks interesting! I have been considering writing something similar, able to monitor my web server from my home wireless router (which runs OpenWRT). Unfortunately this doesn't have enough flash for Perl, so shell-script is about the only option. So I may write "yet another yet another monitoring script"....<BR/><BR/>I see you have a "sanity check" of pinging google.com before doing anything else. Good plan. The other thing that I was considering was doing some sort of exponential back-off: imagine if the server goes down/up/down/up every 5 minutes while you're on holiday, and you're paying $$$ for each SMS. So ideally you'd get an SMS on the first "down", and then another message after n mins, and another after 2n, 4n, 8n etc. etc. Have you considered something like this?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com