On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 08:57, Timothy A. Holmes wrote: > A couple weeks ago someone mentioned a network app (as an alternative to > NAGIOS) that would routinely ping / query different servers / services > around the network and report their status, provide alarming etc. I > filed the link in my e-mail and then promptly lost the e-mail. If > anyone remembers that particular application (or knows of a similar one) > I would be most interested in it, Its time to get some monitoring set > up on this network I mentioned spong as a really old and simple alternative that still has all the features you need. Interestingly, since the previous mention a new maintainer has posted a beta version of a new release: http://spong.sourceforge.net/ -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx