Not extremely simple, but apt-get' able and a bit simpler to set up than Nagios: http://omdistro.org/doc/quickstart_debian_ubuntu It has been quite a bit better experience than raw "touch everything and watch it break" Nagios. The added web gui bits take away quite a bit of the pain, and it scales quite well. Kelly KB0GBJ > Mon Sep 22 2014 08:01:46 PM CDT from "tclug" <tclug at freakzilla.com> >Subject: [tclug-list] Simple Website Monitoring Tool > > (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? > > -- > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20140922/08f0f072/attachment.html>