I have a question about the way you get notified when a test goes bad, specifically, I am interested in how you get notified when Internet connectivity is down.
Our network is made of 3 zones: LAN, DMZ, and Internet. The firewall sits in the middle, and controls the traffic.
I put HM in the LAN, and it tests all the servers there, and on the DMZ.
It also tries to connect to the Internet, and check that we can get to google, cnn, and amazon. After it fails the 3 tests one after the other, it sends a message.
In the past, I used HM v3.x. There, I used a free SMTP server (PostCast Server), and a dial-up connection.
Everytime a test failed, HM contacted the SMTP, and sent a message to it.
PostCast is very smart, and you can tell it to always dial-up when it needs to send something.
So, I got all of my messages through an SMTP that connected over dial-up to the Internet. This way, even if our Internet router was down, or if the Firewall crashed, we got the message.
I already have to SMTP servers in my company, put I can't use them to send e-mail out when the Internet connection is down. I can get notified about everything else failing, just not when the Internet conenction is down
I'm wondering what the rest of you are doing, because I want to change this in v4.x (new HM server).
-Defiant
