On Sep 15, 10:19 am, mike wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I need to monitor my linux server (remote) but don't want to install a
> lot of new software on it. Is there a simple way to monitor CPU, memory,
> disks, network insterfaces.
>
> it seems like the server is going down ( I cannot ping it) and the it is
> going up after a while.
>
> Any simple way to do it?
>
> cheers,
>
> //mike

The "correct way" would be installing something like nagios which can
monitor
everything you want plus allow you to write your own site-specific
plugins. I
say this because it's pretty rare that you just need to monitor one
host. Normally,
such requirements grow so you might as well get ahead of the game with
something
that can scale from the get-go.

But if you REALLY don't want to go to all that trouble, you can roll
your own cron
script that perhaps ssh'es into the host and runs a few commands,
looking for
specific output then returning a status, perhaps emailing you but only
if it
finds a problem.