Ghetto monitoring 2007-07-26 04:10pm
I have a server with hardware problems so I wrote a quicky one line bash command to monitor it.
while /bin/true; do ping 1.2.3.4 -c1; if [ $? -ne 0 ] ; then echo "Server is down" | mutt -s Outage email@domain.com ; break; fi ; sleep 30 ; done;