server monitoring

[keat63]

Are there any cost effective solutions for server monitoring.
The boss now has a bee in his bonnet over our outage at the weekend.

I don't want to monitor the csf emails, as there are far too many of them to be pestered every 30 minutes. This would drive me insane.
I only really want to monitor apache, MYSQL and exim, and to be notified if these are down.

 

[JacobPerkins]

Personally, I use Zabbix to monitor all of my servers. It's my personal preference though, but there are a lot of monitoring solutions out there. Zabbix, Nagios, etc.

I hope this helps!

 

[keat63]

I found Uptime Robot, which i'm playing with at the moment.
Seems OK, will also update a Twitter feed, and twitter does a free SMS service