I am trying to write a shell script to monitor network performance via
traceroute with the following specifics :

Goal :

-   Run traceroute to a list of addresses and capture each result with
time stamp;  sleep for 4 minutes between each traceroute run

-   All output will go to a timestamped log

To run:   $   file-name X      ***where X is number of iteration


Any idea what's the best way to approach this ?

Thanks,

Bill

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> I am trying to write a shell script to monitor network performance via
> traceroute with the following specifics :
>
> Goal :
>
> -   Run traceroute to a list of addresses and capture each result with
> time stamp;  sleep for 4 minutes between each traceroute run
>
>  -   All output will go to a timestamped log
>
> To run:   $   file-name X      ***where X is number of iteration
>
>
> Any idea what's the best way to approach this ?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bill
>

redirect the output to a file.
awk the file so that only the columns you want exist (fqdns, time).
insert the resulting file records into a database adding a timestamp.
report from the database (MySQL, Oracle, etc).

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