\On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 8:01 PM,  <tclug at freakzilla.com> wrote:
>
> 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.

You could probably use curl.  Feed it a URL and then parse the results
to determine result (200, 404, 500,, etc).

Something to get you started:
http://osric.com/chris/accidental-developer/2011/09/monitoring-web-server-status-with-a-shell-script/

Brian