#!/bin/shThis is a super fancy network monitoring tool. The original version of this was from another friend named Mark (not he of greenbar fame) and it played a submarine style sonar "ping" sound when a ping was successful. When you're waiting for your server to come back up, and you have time for a nap until it does, a tool like this is just what you need.
# usage: sonar <host or ip address>
while :
do
ping -c 1 $1 && say "PING!"
sleep 30
done
This version relies on the Mac OS X /usr/bin/say command.
Eat your heart out peep.
EDIT: Yeah, as originally posted the ping command was missing an argument. I blame myself and blogger's difficult to use posting. Thanks, Aaron.
6 comments:
On Ubuntu, use apt-get install beep and you can beep instead, since say is missing. Sometimes simple ideas are best.
Very cool.
I noticed one argument was missing when I tried it... Instead of:
ping -c $1 && say "PING!"
use:
ping -c 1 $1 && say "PING!"
Thanks again.
Ping has an "audible" flag, so an alternative to your script would be:
ping -i 30 -a host.example.com
On ubuntu,
Install festival and the festvox-don default voice file.
ping -c1 $1 && $(echo "Ping" | festival --tts)
very cool.
The voice isn't that great, but it is still cool.
Does anybody know how to get a better default voice working on festival on ubuntu?
I almost forgot, you also have to put the following in your .festivalrc file:
(Parameter.set 'Audio_Command "aplay -q -c 1 -t raw -f s16 -r $SR $FILE")
(Parameter.set 'Audio_Method 'Audio_Command)
Just so you know, the osx ping allows you to beep on a successful ping or beep on a failed ping. Set your alert sound to a sonar ping and... =)
The args are -A and -a. I forget which, since I'm not at my mac right now...
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