Many thanks to everyone for the responses! I'll check out all of the suggestions. On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 3:44 AM, Tim Venn wrote: > At our office we wrote a simple perl script than sends UDP packets to a > central server which has a web interface for monitor / graphing and > status alerting. The packets contain a key, value pair. Most of the data > we monitor comes via the linux-sys-statistics perl module. > > Not 100% sure why we did not use something like Nagios but we are a > software development house so we tend to reinvent the wheel more often > than not. > That (writing your own software) may *sound* like a bad thing, but considering the time required to properly set up, install, and write plugins for other people's software, writing your own lightweight tools starts looking really good. I just might do it as an excuse to get familiar with NodeJS, which is looking quite fast in my benchmarks. --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .