remote host availability monitor

[zackjz]

im looking to find a remote host monitor and was hoping for some recommendations. what i need is simply something to ping a remote host at a set interval and if it gets no response it will send an email; or, even better, it will ping at a set interval and then if it doesn't get a response it will ping for, say, 10 seconds and if still no resonse (or maybe based on % lost?) it will send an alert. i would imagine this could be accomplished with a script of some sort? any suggestions would be appreciated. thanks.

[jcstille]

Do you want webbased access? I know there are a ton of php based scripts out there to do it. If not you could build some simple programs to do it.