hostbeat

A very simple host is alive solution written in Bash for monitoring multiple hosts.

Proof of Concept ;-)

Installation

mkdir /etc/websafe
cd /etc/websafe
git clone git://github.com/websafe/hostbeat.git
cp /etc/websafe/hostbeat/cron.d/websafe-hostbeat /etc/cron.d/

and restart crond

service cron restart

or

/etc/rc.d/rc.crond restart

Upgrade

cd /etc/websafe/hostbeat/ && git pull