Restart Notification

[gsmornot]

I'm still searching but so far no luck. I use an old Mini as a photo backup server for 4 users in my house. With each user logged in and photos open, iCloud photo will download the full-size image to the Mini. If the Mini is restarted, that does not happen.

Any ideas for a way to be alerted, a text maybe, that says the Mini just went offline due to a restart? I have it on a UPS but you never know and its run headless so I'm not looking at it full-time.

 

[FreakinEurekan]

What you're looking for is a "Watchdog", which by definition must be on a different computer. If the Mini locks up, powers off, etc - IT can't tell you that's happened, something else must notice it and tell you.

There are a gazillion different watchdog services & apps out there, and a lot of different ways that they could work. You could probably even use something like ifttt.com for it with a bit of creative thinking. Ideally if the Mini can be set up to "Serve" some content - web service, FTP, AJAX, whatever you could have the watchdog check for that periodically (once a day, once an hour, once every 5 minutes - whatever you want) and alert you if it's not responding.

 

[gsmornot]

What you're looking for is a "Watchdog", which by definition must be on a different computer. If the Mini locks up, powers off, etc - IT can't tell you that's happened, something else must notice it and tell you.

There are a gazillion different watchdog services & apps out there, and a lot of different ways that they could work. You could probably even use something like ifttt.com for it with a bit of creative thinking. Ideally if the Mini can be set up to "Serve" some content - web service, FTP, AJAX, whatever you could have the watchdog check for that periodically (once a day, once an hour, once every 5 minutes - whatever you want) and alert you if it's not responding.

Thank you. This has given me some ideas and I may be able to use a service on my firewall to do what I want.