On Apr 12, 2012, at 12:14 PM, Tara Robertson wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Is there an automated way of monitoring (and notifying) when a wireless network goes down? I'm looking for something like Nagios, but for wireless (or can Nagios do this too?)
> 
> I don't manage our network--our ITS department does. They seem to think it's adequate that I'm the monitoring system but I'm finding this extremely frustrating.

Nagios can monitor *anything* so long as you can write a script that'll get you some status back.

If you have a command line way of getting signal strength for the network, that'd likely be best, but you could also just test to see if you can ping out on the right interface.

-Joe