Features
- check if service is UP or DOWN
- no need to install anything into monitored servers
- report to one email address if service is DOWN
- simple and light
- easy to install and configure
- can set the timeout for probing the service status
- can use fsockopen (PHP) or IO::Socket (PERL) - if for any reasons the fsockopen can operate correctly
- can monitor n servers with a single instance
- can alert a custom email address per server
- to work properly need only APACHE+PHP, no databases or various plugins
- can run also under Win32 (IIS+PHP, tested on Windows 2000 Server) - Thank you Everett!
- collect each downtime event into a plain text file
Features to implement
- code cleanup
- parse the downtime logfile and generate some statistical info
- replace all GIF with PNG
- add a webpage configuration tool
- add a template engine to allow change look and feel
- more and more! :-)
