WAN monitoring - New user

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Hi All. I’m very new LibreNMS and so far very impressed with it!

We seem to be having connectivity issues on our VDSL link and it goes down at least once a day. I’m looking for an effective way to monitor this. One thought was to poll 8.8.8.8 and a couple of other reliable IP’s via ICMP, but it seems I can’t set the ICMP poll frequency per device, only the Cron service frequency?

I’d like to ping every 30-60s, but don’t want this going on for every device on the network if I can help it.

Can anyone advise how they achieve this?

Many Thanks
Ian

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I do it by using Smokeping (integrated into LibreNMS using the guide in the docs) - and have Smokeping alert me separately

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Thanks Man!
That’s exactly what I was looking for. I knew there’d be a better way to do it and didn’t realise there was smokeping integration in librenms! :):grinning:

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Incidentally, I remember using smokeping a few years ago in a companies Ob****ium setup and remember what a useful tool it was then!