Re: [OT?] In Search of Website Monitoring Software
less /var/state/apt/lists/*
/^E^Fmonitor (Ctrl-E, Ctrl-F)
and then scroll up for Package:
..and repeat (with "n") until you find what you want.
This could be lame way to find it, but what this search found on my i386
woody:
Package Short description
mon monitor hosts/services/whatever and alert about problems
atsar system activity reporter
(but atsar may be something different, not for WWW)
netsaint A host/service/network monitoring program.
spong-* The spong monitoring package - *
websec Web Secretary
(maybe could be useful as well)
bigbrother Big Brother: A systems and network monitor
(non-free - one of the first ones I've heard of, but I
didn't get impressed too much)
You could also check http://www.reedmedia.net/projects/systemstatus/ .
(Side note: there is many packages that have "monitor" somewhere in their
description, although most of the mentioned here have "monitoring" as well.
I might have missed some not listed here.)
Most of them (if not all) check HTTP, SMTP, DNS, connectivity (ping) and
other services. But, like the other guy said, you could have written your
own cron script that would be run every given time trying to wget/lftp a
webpage and based on that it could send you e-mail to your SM-capable pager.
That reminds me that I should do that, too, finally. I will probably write
my own with unique User Agent string so it could be easily excluded from
webalizer's analyses.
I hope this helped.
- Peter.
P.S.: Please, CC to me as well. I am not signed in.
- P.
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