Linux health monitoring

[Chris Bier]

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James Sissel wrote:
> We here at work are at the mercy of the Linux
> Administrators to do their jobs.  Since they can't
> seem to do this and our /var partition ran out of
> space Friday our Oracle Applications crashed.  It
> looks like we will have to monitor the health of our
> RH Enterprise 2.x server to make sure this doesn't
> happen again.  Is there any good piece of free open
> source software that does such a job?
> 
> Thanks

We use ping in a bash script as well as php calling netcat.

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