visual representation of server health

HI all,

I want to make a webpage showing the status of services running on a server. for example email, http , etc. That way users can see that server status for themselfs. Maybe even show the status of each virtual domain running on the server. Any way to do this without buying some product?

Thanks again

try: Nagios: About Nagios

Its opensource, might be overkill. But it will do what you want.

I haven't used Nagios in a while so I can't offer a valid comparison but opennms does a pretty good job with minimal setup.

A few from the top of my head.

Homepage of ZABBIX :: An Enterprise-Class Open Source Distributed Monitoring Solution
Download - Big Brother System and Network Monitor
Projects - Big Sister System and Network Monitor

great thanks everyone