scripts/mobots/README.please

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).

feel free to use or improve this handy tool!


=== how to use the df bot (install notes) ===

1. copy the df.sh scrip somewhere on the 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 (here the script is executed all 2 minutes)
*/2 *	* * *	root	/bin/bash --login /path/to/the/script/df.sh /path/to/configfile/df.conf >> /path/to/logfile/df.log

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)