StefanSeiz.comwherever particular people congregateHost monitoring with Twitter and Perl - a poor man's Nagios- July 26, 2007 Justin Mason of SpamAssassin fame recently published a perl-script on his blog, he developed to check health of some of his servers using perl and posting alerts to Jaiku. Since i use twitter, i modified his script to post alerts and extended the functionality a bit. The script cureently only checks webservers via HEAD requests. If a host does not respond, it posts an alert to a given Twitter account, remembers the host and will post a host-up notification to twitter, should the host come up..http://www.stefanseiz.com/archives/2007/07/host_monitoring_with_twitter_and_perl_a_poor_ma... |