[wellylug] server monitoring

[Cliff Pratt]

Mark Signal wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> does anyone know of a script (run as a cron job?)  that will ping a 
> remote server a few times regularly and run a command if the server 
> becomes unpingable  - and ideally runs another command when the server 
> rejoins the land of the living.
> 
> cheers
> 
> Mark Signal
> 

mon.

We used it quite happily. It's not the easiest thing to set 
up! There's a Debian package.

Cheers,

Cliff