On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 4:28 PM, Leon Fauster <leonfauster at googlemail.com> wrote: > Am 30.08.2012 um 11:52 schrieb C. L. Martinez: >> Hi all, >> >> I am searching some lightweight tool to control when rsyslog didn't >> receive events from a >> specific host or group of hosts for x minutes/seconds. > > > What are your goals? > > What about monitoring the system itself? > > > >> Only a simple tool to send an email when an alert is triggered, I >> don't need flat tools like zabbix or similars. >> >> Does anyone know any? > > > https://mon.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page > > not comparable to SEC but could also be used to monitor an (local) event. > > I only need to send an alert if syslog process doesn't receives logs from x hosts in a defined time. Only this ... I don't need to check if syslog process is alive (this is monitored by a Zabbix or Nagios, I am not sure) ...