Andy On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 20:41 -0500, Andy Syrewicze wrote: > I've got a server with no gui. Just CLI and Webmin. Sounds like a server to me. > I would like to have some sort of monitoring and reporting service > that notifys me via e-mail if one of my Raid arrays Degrade and to let > me know if the SMART check on one of my Disks fail. I would suggest "logcheck" it scans the log files and reports anything that it thinks out of the ordinary. With a bit of config you could probably get it to report just want you're looking for. > I would also like to use a easy to setup/simple to use mail service > for this. Exim4 maybe a heavy weight e-mail system, but the package config can make it very simple to set up your server to forward all received mail on to you main e-mail server. This is how I configure the various systems (workstation and servers) in my networks. > I've looked at Nagios for the Monitoring and it looks like hitting an > ant with a bazooka. I figured there is something not so involved out > there. I use Nagios. When it comes to monitoring remote systems it works very well. I wouldn't trust it to monitor itself because if the system fails how can it notify you? Steve -- Steve Dobson Boomer Envy: Envy of material wealth and long-range material security accrued by older members of the baby boom generation by virtue of fortunate births. -- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture"
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