#script to ping nodes specified in /home/scripts/watch
#supposed to email me when one does not respond.



while read HOST ; do live=`ping -c4 "$HOST"|wc -l` ; #read IP's and ping them, count the number of lines returned (should be 9 for success, 4 for failure)


if [ $live -eq 4 ] #pretty self-explanatory
then



echo "This is an automatically generated email to let you know that "$HOST" has not responded to a scheduled ping. \n\n`date`\n\n`ping -c1 "$HOST"`\n\n`traceroute "$HOST"`" | mail -s "IPwatch "$HOST" Down!" email@address.com # send a fancy email
fi
done < /home/scripts/watch # read IPs from this file

while read HOST ; do live=`ping -c4 "$HOST"|wc -l` ; 


if [ $live -eq 4 ] 
then

echo "ping failed" >> /home/scripts/ipwatch/$HOST
FAIL=`cat /home/scripts/ipwatch/$HOST | wc -l`
if [ $FAIL -lt 5 ]
then
echo "This is an automatically generated email to let you know that "$HOST" has not responded to a scheduled ping. \n\n`date`\n\n`ping -c1 "$HOST"`\n\n`traceroute "$HOST"`" | mail -s "IPwatch "$HOST" Down!" email@address.com 
fi
MIN=`date | awk '{print$4}' | cut -d ":" -f2,3`
while [ "$MIN" -eq "00:00" ]
do
echo "This is an hourly reminder about $HOST not responding to ping." | mail -s "IPWatch $HOST reminder" posborn@buckheadbeef.com
done
fi
done < /home/scripts/watch