topic Re: Network down message when network cable unplugged or failed in Operating System - HP-UX

Network down message when network cable unplugged or failed

NEILL AVENANT — Mon, 01 Dec 2003 05:37:15 GMT

Greetings,

We would like the system to log a message to syslog.log when the network cable is unplugged or the network is unavailable.

On some machines this does work, but on our HPUX 11i installation, it does not.

We need this for Veritas Clustering and day to day monitoring.

Any advice appreciated.

Thank you!
David. .

Re: Network down message when network cable unplugged or failed

cl_5 — Wed, 03 Dec 2003 04:53:06 GMT

Only an idea.
Normally you get a message like "...bad cable connection to hub or switch...." on /dev/console if your network connection is broken.
Check your /etc/syslog.conf and change
*alert /dev/console
to
*alert /YOUR_LOGFILE_PATH

Hope this helps!

Kind regards
cl