EasyPing was written to ping devices such as network switches or critical points on a network and notify me and any co-worker(s) when the devices went up or down. I already use monitoring tools but those collect more then just a ping and are often a bother to do a simple ping task. I needed to have a ping solution that would notify me without the hassle. There are plenty of tools out there that already do this but I wanted a simple script to do it without having a database backend service and having a web gui.
I picked a CSV file as the database table so that its easy to edit in a text editor such as vim or nano.
My current setup sends me emails for some of the devices, I use Pushover for my more critical things. I implemented Web checks and Script running which has made it a wrapper for cron job scripts with better notifications.
This system works well and hopefully it will help you out if you go with it.
I am open to improvements and feature requests.
- Ping Checks (ipv4, I dont think ipv6 will work)
- Web Checks (http, https)
- Script Running
- Parallelism - runs multiple checks at the same time (x workers)
- CSV Backend (SUPER Easy to edit)
- Groups for Cron jobs - put hosts in groups and run them when you want to check that group
- Notifications ( SMTP/Email, Pushover )
- Notification on Fail (Retries x times and if it fails, it will then send the email but you'll only receive one)
- Notification on Recovery
- Easy to deploy
- Dockerhub Image so you can launch it with docker or podman
- Linux
- (Optional) Containers (docker or podman)
- Perl 5.10+
- Notification Types:
- (optional) SMTP Server
- (optional) Pushover
- (optional) Slack
- (optional) GSuite Chat Room / google chat
- (optional) Discord
Please refer to the wiki for how to install and use.