[afnog] Network monitoring tool

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 10:59:20AM +0100,
 Phil Regnauld <regnauld at x0.dk> wrote 
 a message of 22 lines which said:

> But yes, I agree, it's not as simple as running a shellscript from
> cron doing "ping".

Not a fair comparison since the cron job has no memory and so cannot
know if it already mailed you (one of the mandatory features of a
serious monitoring system). You should compare what is comparable, for
instance Nagios with the much simpler mon
(http://www.kernel.org/software/mon/).