TRB140 - Event reporting - send SMS on Ping fail

Networking Solutions
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Hi all,

in the midst of setting up my new TRB140 - which so far works very well! - i am trying to achieve the following:

  • Ping a host / IP address a number of times
  • If host / IP fails to respond, send SMS with error message
  • Repeat after 5 minutes. (do not send SMS again unless host has been reachable again or so…)
    If i am not completely wrong, this appears to be impossible right now, at least i cannot configure something like this. I have set up an event w/ SMS alert when the LAN port goes down, this is working well.

Did i overlook something? Or do i need to file a feature request elsewhere (not on this forum :))?
Cheers
Gregor

3

Hi,

It sounds like you are looking for the “ping reboot” functionality. You can access it by navigating to System → Maintenance → Auto Reboot. From there, create a new rule or edit an existing one as described below. This will send an SMS if the ping reboot fails. Note that this will run every 5 minutes if the interface is not up.

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Best regards,

4

Hi Marijus,

thanks for the hint. Checked and it appears to be working. However, it took me a little bit to understand it will not actually reboot the machine if configured as in your example :slight_smile: Hope this will get some more attention in the next releases, to make it easier to use…

Gregor