Another uptime story

[Tim Judd]

>
> >   I have a script which runs fping on a bunch of servers and writes
> >   a timestamp for any host that answers.  It's run every minute from
> >   cron on our loghost.  Another script watches the results and sends
> >   me an IM if any of my boxes fails to respond for 3 minutes.
> >
> >   I can put up a tarball if anyone's interested.
> >
>
> I'd be interested in a set of scripts like that.
>


sounds like what nagios is.


:)