Linux health monitoring

[Jason Munro]

On 12:53:29 pm 08/22/05 James Sissel <jimsissel at yahoo.com> 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?

We use simple perl/bash scripts that collect command line information (ps
aux, df -h, ifconfig, etc) then call them via a cron job that is piped to
the mail command. It's a simple way to get a daily status report for each
server via email.


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