[Nottingham] Script/Utility for a daily system 'health' check and to list status?

[John Thomson]

I tend to use the very efficient, and light on server resources method 
of "wait until the user/client phones you up to say it's not working". 
Is that not the standard method?</s>

John.


On 25/07/16 11:19, VM via Nottingham wrote:
> Martin,
>
> Haven't tried it yet but a combination of sensu and alerta might work for you. sensu claims ability to monitor various types of servers including containers and alerta shows colour-coded messages with numbers where appropriate.
>
> V.
>
> On 24 July 2016 14:47:42 BST, Martin via Nottingham <nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
>> Folks,
>>
>> This is just something that just has to have been done many many times
>> over...
>>
>> ;-)
>>
>> What do you run to show a daily (server or desktop) system health
>> check?
>>
>>
>> Myself at the moment, I rely on Munin and also a plethora of "watch"
>> scripts that list vital parameters of daily interest.
>>
>> (All evolved in various different ways...)
>>
>>
>> And now, I'm about to revamp an old system and...
>>
>> Has anyone got anything 'neat' that is more 'direct'/'simple' than the
>> heavyweights of Nagios + Munin (that everyone ignores for any nascent
>> problem until too late...) that nicely lists present system status so
>> that you can see at a glance that all is 'ok' *AND* 'stable' and with
>> meaningful real numbers/measurements...?
>>
>>
>> (Reminder to self: My watch script is likely a good example for the
>> Command Line talk to be rescheduled for the next meeting! :-) )
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Martin
>>
>>
>> Munin: http://guide.munin-monitoring.org/en/latest/preface/whatis.html
>>
>>
>>
>>
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