Netcheck

A shellscript to check and log when your internet connection goes down. Netcheck checks for internet connectivity and if its interupted, writes a log containing the time of disconnect, and length of time disconnected. Once it reconnects it will log the reconnected internet speed and continue monitoring again.

Netcheck also include an optional web interface for viewing your connection logs remotely from a web browser. You can use a service such as NGROK to allow you to see the web interface outside of your network.

Installation

git clone https://github.com/TristanBrotherton/netcheck.git
cd netcheck
chmod +x netcheck.sh
./netcheck.sh

CLI Interface

Web Interface

Options

netcheck.sh -h                                           Display this message
netcheck.sh -f path/my_log_file.log          Specify log file and path to use
netcheck.sh -s                                 Disable speedtest on reconnect
netcheck.sh -c                Check connection ever (n) seconds. Default is 5
netcheck.sh -u            URL/Host to check, default is http://www.google.com
netcheck.sh -w                                  Enable the remote webinteface
netcheck.sh -p                  Specify an optional port for the webinterface
netcheck.sh -i                           Install netcheck as a system service
netcheck.sh -d path/script            Specify script to execute on disconnect
netcheck.sh -r path/script             Specify script to execute on reconnect

Run as a service

You can optionally run netcheck as a system service. For systems that use systemctl (Linux) you may use its service installation script:

sudo ./netcheck.sh -i

Scripts for disconnect/reconnect events

You can optionally define actions to be executed upon disconnect or reconnect. To do so you may use the -d and -r options.

Two sample bash scripts making use of the espeak-ng text-to-speech utility are provided under the sample-scripts to showcase how these options can be used:

./netcheck.sh -d sample-scripts/disconnected.sh -r sample-scripts/reconnected.sh