Bijan Soleymani wrote: > I want to monitor a half dozen machines and have a screen with a green dot > for those that are up and a red dot for those that are down. For this it's > enough that they're responding to pings. Half the machines are Linux half > are not.
A good reasonably flexible system is smokeping. Debian packages it. I use it to get ping and http/https request time for my house machines and a few important outside machines. If you have more significant future plans, it would be worth a couple of hours to set up icinga2, a Nagios-compatible monitoring system. It is also packaged by Debian. (Nagios was the defacto open source standard, then the project forked several ways as the main product went commercial.) -dsr-
