check_providers/README.md

check-providers

On a router with multiple providers and shorewall, monitor the providers and enable/disable them when one is failing.restart openvpn if running on the failing provider.

check_providers.py --help

Usage: check_providers.py -c configfile action

Check reachability of multiple providers managed by Shorewall
enable or disable the providers based on maximum packets loss or RTT

action is either :
  monitor : monitor in background all providers and enable/disable them
  check [all,<provider>] : check all or one provider and display reachability
  check-json [all,<provider>] : check providers and output state as json data


Options:
  --version             show program's version number and exit
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -i CHECK_INTERVAL, --check-interval=CHECK_INTERVAL
                        Config file full path (default: 60)
  -p PING_COUNT, --ping-count=PING_COUNT
                        Override ping count (default: 0)
  -c CONFIG, --config=CONFIG
                        Config file full path (default: /etc/check-
                        providers.ini)
  -d, --dry-run         Dry run (default: False)
  -v, --verbose         More information (default: False)
  -o LOGFILE, --log=LOGFILE
                        Path to log file (default: none)
  -l LOGLEVEL, --loglevel=LOGLEVEL
                        Loglevel (default: info)