I manage all things IT related for a small private school. It's a part time thing, 90% remote so I'm usually not there. Now and then the internet goes down for one reason or another... most recently due to a mower clipping the fiber line. And no I don't know why the line wasn't buried deep enough that wasn't an issue... but I do know it was down since Fri and even though some people knew, nobody alerted me so I got to have a 'fun' morning when school started and nothing was working. Would have been nice to have gotten an automated alert when it actually went down.
Off the top of my head I could probably do something like set up some script on the school's windows server to send an 'I'm alive' message via email or ftp to an external server and write a script to check for said messages and email me if they stop. Surely in 2026 there has to be a simpler way... some basic program that will accomplish the same goal in a less convoluted way. Anyone familiar with something like this? Obviously it has to be some kind of external service since the internet would be down when said alerts need to go out. Most of what I'm finding with casual searches seems to be oriented towards monitoring a website which is of no help or some pricey subscription for way more monitoring than is actually needed.
Anybody know of or use something like what I'm talking about?
Off the top of my head I could probably do something like set up some script on the school's windows server to send an 'I'm alive' message via email or ftp to an external server and write a script to check for said messages and email me if they stop. Surely in 2026 there has to be a simpler way... some basic program that will accomplish the same goal in a less convoluted way. Anyone familiar with something like this? Obviously it has to be some kind of external service since the internet would be down when said alerts need to go out. Most of what I'm finding with casual searches seems to be oriented towards monitoring a website which is of no help or some pricey subscription for way more monitoring than is actually needed.
Anybody know of or use something like what I'm talking about?
