Alert - Route Change

Question

Hi,

Some of our routers switch to backup if the primary WAN-Port goes down an back if it's up again

So I get an alert if the WAN-Connection is down(or up again). But I don't get an information if the backup link is working.

I can't monitor the backup cause they are always reachable/up.

I used another tool to compare tracert's which tells me if the route has changed. Can I do this with NPM too?

The idea is:

Port down -> check route change -> Alert mail:  (Alert) Node/Port Status & RouteChange.

Port up -> check route change -> Alert mail: (Reset) Node/Port Status & RouteChange.

I know I can trigger an external script/program but how do I get the output back into NPM?

BR

Oliver

njoylif · Answer

hope it works, and please post progress/results. I'm sure others could benefit as well.  Thx

otatzmann · Answer

right, that might work.. thank you

njoylif · Answer

I've never done this type of thing, but I would think you could call some kind of SQL update script if certain criteria were met...