Network down message when network cable unplugged or failed

[NEILL AVENANT]

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. .

[cl_5]

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