I recommend monit (http://www.tildeslash.com/monit). It is very easy to set up and it works great. You can grab the RPM from Dag's repository. Marko On Thu, September 22, 2005 10:54 am, Kennedy Clark said: > 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). > TIA, > KC > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >