Sherif Zaroubi wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
>      I have a problem ( I love starting emails like this ;) ) ....
>      I have a system with over 100 cronjobs (some of which are legacy,
> iow I can modify the code but it might be time consuming).
>
>      I need to monitor these jobs, by monitor I mean:
>      - Failed to execute (Cron was supposed to run but didn't)
>      - Failed in it's execution (Cron job reported errors)
>      - Execution took too long (Cron job took more than x% of time than 
> normal)
>
>     The monitoring should not over send msgs (I remember the time
> where I went on vacation for 2 weeks, and a 3rd party provider fell to
> it's knees .... long story short ... outlook crashed )
>
>      Here is what I am thinking of:
>
>      (Cron) --[executes job]---> (Job specific log file) ---- (nagios
> or other monitoring too, analyse time stamp and content of logfile)
> -----> sends email with warnings, errors and all .
>
>
>      It sounds a bit duct tape, (cause I gotta start monitoring my
> nagios and all). I have googled and checked freshmeat.net for
> opensource "all in one" solutions. (All in one == schedule and
> monitor).
>      I was wondering, how do you solve this issue.
I use logwatch myself, it is pretty simple, but can do some powerful 
stuff. Worth checking out anyways.

Jeremy

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