Re: [CentOS] Monitoring services

On Sun, 27 Nov 2011, Kenneth Porter wrote:

What's available to remotely monitor services? What I'd like is something that can run scripts for each service to connect to a port and verify that it's up, and then send me an SMS message (phone text) to let me know which, if any, are down.

We use Nagios at work, as many others have suggested.

I've never configured Nagios to do SMS directly. We have text-message escalations by e-mail, since several cellular carriers allow e-mails to be sent directly to your phone:

* AT&T: <phone number>@txt.att.net * T-Mobile: <phone number>@tmomail.net * Verizon: <phone number>@vtext.com

Where <phone number> is your 10-digit number.