On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 5:01 PM, Kenneth Porter shiva@sewingwitch.com 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.

It might be overkill but OpenNMS does that along with monitoring via SNMP. http://www.opennms.org

Also, does a script exist that checks all the services listed by chkconfig and reports those that should be up but are down?

OpenNMS normally probes to auto-discover running services, then alarms if they go away, but there is also a provisioning mode where you provide the nodes and services to monitor.