non-SNMP device

["Evankovich, Debra A" <devanko@MTPOWER.COM>]

Hello,

I need to obtain the status of a non-SNMP device (up/down only).  Without
using a proxy agent, I was thinking that cron could kick off a script every
five minutes to determine the status and generate an alert if the device is
down.

Does anyone have an example of the script file I would need to be able to do
this?  Is there a better way than what I'm considering?

Thanks for your help!


Debra Evankovich
Network Analyst
Montana Power Company
devanko@mtpower.com