Readme for the Availability.pl script
Version 0.3 (05/09/02)

Developer: Dieter.Heupke@dhs-gmbh.de
Contact for comments, questions, etc.: Stefan.Heins@seb.de
ATTENTION: This program is still in draft state!
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After several successless tries to get a solution to monitor availability with
MRTG, we asked a Perl-Developer to "mix" something for us.
The result is a very simple, small program to monitor the availability of a host
with the simple Perl Ping command.
For us it's at this time good enough.
This script is still draft and the development will be continued.

Before you can use it, you must adjust/prepare some things:
* load module in Perl: Net::SNMP
* load module in Perl: Net::Ping
* adjust the variable $community to your needs

It's not diffucult to understand the script but if you want, feel free to get
in touch with me.

It was a pleasure, to contribute something to MRTG/RRD and i hope, this script
can really help you as good as it does for us.

Cheers,
Stefan Heins
Fone:  +49 69 258 9008
Fax:   +49 69 258 8979
email: Stefan.Heins@seb.de
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