this is my little mobot project. the concept is not to spend hundreds of hours to implement some massive monitoring tool like nagios or something like this. instead i want to use some simple message/notification scripts which exactly tell me what i need to know. the first thing i have here is the df bot. it sends me a short jabber message when one or more disks on the serving machine reaching a preconfigured threshold (example: 90% disk usage). another tool i find really useful is the pingbot (ping.sh) it works pretty much the same as the dfbot. feel free to use or improve this handy tools! === install notes === 1. copy the scrip somewhere on your machine you get the df.sh on gitorious.org http://gitorious.org/sn/scripts/trees/master/mobots/df.sh 2. create the configfile use the df.conf.sample to create a config and put this file anywhere on the same machine http://gitorious.org/sn/scripts/trees/master/mobots/df.conf.sample 3. create a cronjob for it add a line like this to your /etc/crontab */2 * * * * root /bin/bash --login /path/to/the/script/df.sh /path/to/configfile/df.conf >> /path/to/logfile/df.log or (if you use the default configpath /etc/mobots) */5 * * * * root /bin/bash --login /path/to/script/df.sh >> /var/log/mobots/df.log the logdirectory must exist after this you have to restart your cron with something like service cron restart of course there are several ways to create a cronjob but this is probably the easiest way any questions? mail me! (david@socialnerds.org)