Add the dag repository to your yum then "yum install nagios". Doing the initial config will take a couple of hours, but once it is running it is capable of whatever you need I would say. Les Mikesell wrote: >On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 12:54, Kennedy Clark wrote: > > >>A bit off topic, but I keep looking for an answer to this question and >>coming up with nothing... so I thought I would go to the gurus. :-) >> >>Can anyone recommend a good package for pinging other devices and >>sending an email/alert when they go down? I'm aware of all kinds of >>more complex things with GUIs and a zillion other bells and whistles >>we aren't looking for, but we just want a simple tool (could be daemon >>or something run from cron) that runs every 1 - 5 minutes and alerts >>us when stuff disappears. Would need some basic logic like only >>sending one email/alert when something goes down (vs sending an email >>every 1-5 minutes until it comes back up). :-) We need to avoid a >>requirement for an X-windows GUI, but a web-GUI would probably be fine >>(a GUI-less command-line thing would probably be best). >> >> > >This probably isn't the best anymore, but I've had it running with >no particular problems for 5 or 6 years - before any of the others >like it were available. It is all-perl, has one server process to >collate the responses and rate-limit the alarms, one network probe >for all the remotely checks, and optional local clients for some >things that can only be tested locally. It is fairly easy to add >custom tests for local applications. > http://spong.sourceforge.net/ > > >