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torontowolf
Jun 16, 2021Aspirant
Need to monitor uptime and downtime
(Disclaimer: Although I can navigate through the Netgear settings, I'm still quite a newb when it comes to networking generally) I've noticed that my work VPN drops during the night. A few nights ...
torontowolf
Jun 18, 2021Aspirant
Thanks for your reply. Yeah, everything I've read talks about monitoring network activity, but in the context of apps and open ports, etc. Virtually nothing (except for large company networks) about monitoring uptime and downtime.
Given your response and the lack of other responses, I'm thinking right about now that I'm out of luck on obtaining something already created (and yeah, I"m not a coder or script kiddie either, which doesn't help.)
antinode
Jun 18, 2021Guru
> [...] I"m not a coder or script kiddie [...]
So far as I know, people aren't born with computer-programming
skills, but many people have managed to acquire some. Having an actual
problem to solve can make it easier to learn, compared with having to
plow through some shell-scripting primer, trying to imagine how any of
it might be useful.