Hi all, I would really appreciate some help to create a bash shell script to do this: 1. run a ping command (e.g. ping -c 10 {ServerName}) 2. (TEST1) find the average ping time value (from ping results using probably grep) and compare against {TimeThreshold} 3. if average ping time value is greater than {TimeThreshold}, then run traceroute command (traceroute -m 20 {ServerName}), "mark" test as "failed" (exit result value 1) and end script, otherwise continue script... 4. (TEST2) find packet loss value (from ping results above) and compare against {PacketLossThreshold} 5. if packet loss value is greater than {PacketLossThreshold}, then run traceroute command (traceroute -m 20 {ServerName}), "mark" test as "failed" (exit result value 1) and end script, otherwise "mark" test as "success" (exit result value 0) This would eventually be used with another software (Mac-based Dejal Simon: http://www.dejal.com/simon) to include ping and traceroute results in an email notifier. Thanks in advance for any feedback. Cheers, Derek