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scottstef
You may want to look at setting up <a href="http://spong.sourceforge.net/">spong</a> It is written in perl, distributed under the Perl Artistic Liscense. Spong is from their faq:<p>
1. What is Spong?<br>
This is a simple system monitoring package called spong. It has the following features:<br>
client based monitoring (CPU, disk, processes, logs, etc...) <br>
monitoring of network services (smtp, http, ping, pop, dns, etc...) <br>
grouping of hosts (routers, servers, workstations, PCs) <br>
rules based messaging when problems occur <br>
configurable on a host by host basis <br>
results displayed via text or web based interface <br>
history of problems<br>
verbose information to help diagnosis problems <p>
It may be a little overkill, but it will do what you want it to do and is very easy to set up.
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