Email on "Device is down"?

[venquessa]

Can anyone suggest a good way to generate email when I host comes back with status "Down" or "Recovering"?

I can think of a few ways...

1. Hack the cacti poller script.
2. Cron + Lynx + Grep + Sendmail and use the cacti device status page (Problem with cacti authentication then)
3. Don't use cacti, use another method altogether.

I just thought that since Cacti is polling these hosts every 5 minutes that maybe it could fire me a wee email when one of their net connections falls over, or the system itself has spat the dummy out.

Any suggestions?

Paul

[BSOD2600]

I believe the Threashold addon can do this...