We are soon releasing PushMon, a free monitoring service for scripts, batches and jobs. The basic idea is that cron scripts will "ping" a URL on a regular basis, and will notify the user if this "ping ...

Clients for Linux, BSD, Windows, Mac OS X and commercial UNIXes. Database back end (MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL or SQLite). Auto-discovery mode. Web-based interface. Notifications via e-mail, SMS or ...

There's an old DevOps story of a developer who, when asked by a member of the ops team why an app isn't running on the live servers, replies "It's just fine on my laptop". To which the only reply is ...

Cron processes, or "cron jobs," may be used to start and stop applications within a Linux or Unix operating system. You can create cron jobs to perform functions such ...

I have been tasked at my new job for finding a way to monitor server space on our many servers, originally I thought of something like Spiceworks, but the lead programmer/admin for this wants ...

Server management is an essential part of data center operations. Choosing the right tool for the job and which components to monitor is also essential. How you address server monitoring changes ...

An automated script is a code snippet that executes repetitive or complex tasks, such as provisioning infrastructure, managing security vulnerabilities, setting up data pipelines and testing software, ...