We're going for "extensive" and possibly having that as one of our 
services (;

On Mon, 22 Sep 2014, Daniel Taylor wrote:

> It sounds like a monitoring service might be in order. There are a few that 
> will monitor a single page for free and only charge for extensive monitoring.
>
> On 09/22/2014 08:13 PM, Ryan Coleman wrote:
>> This is a replacement to Nagios and seemingly easier to configure.
>> 
>> I suggest since a web interface won’t work you start using bash, perl and 
>> cron.
>> 
>> Or prepare to fork over hundreds of dollars.
>> 
>>>> Ryan
>> 
>> 
>> On Sep 22, 2014, at 20:11, tclug at freakzilla.com wrote:
>> 
>>> That looks pretty cool, but again, wayyyy over complicated. All I need to 
>>> monitor is whether a bunch of webservers are up, not really my internal 
>>> network.
>>> 
>>> I really ind of wish Nagios had a decent configuration system. I love text 
>>> files but seriously guys...
>>> 
>>> I'm really looking for a solution I can apt-get install... this is the 
>>> point where I want something that Just Works. If it'll take longer to 
>>> download/set up/learn to configure/mess with configuration than it will 
>>> for me to write something simple, I'll just go write it! But I'd love 
>>> something that's aleady tried and tested.
>>> 
>>> On Mon, 22 Sep 2014, Ryan Coleman wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I’m using Zenoss but I just started and haven’t really done much to set 
>>>> it up.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Sep 22, 2014, at 20:01, tclug at freakzilla.com wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> (Resending form correct account, sorry admins)
>>>>> 
>>>>> Ok, before I go write one myself, does anyone know of a simple website 
>>>>> uptime monitoring tool? Yeah, I can use Nagios but that's waaayyy 
>>>>> overdone and waaaaayyy overcomplicated.
>>>>> 
>>>>> All I need is something I can give a list of websites (or URLs), have it 
>>>>> do an HTTP connection to, possibly look for a string in the resulting 
>>>>> webpage and let me know "Hey that worked" or "Hey I got a HTTP/200 but 
>>>>> that string wasn't there" or "Hey it won't even talk on port 80". Be 
>>>>> nice if it can represent the output as HTML and allow to setup some 
>>>>> email alerts, but producing a nice processable text result would be 
>>>>> enough.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Anyone?
>>>>> 
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