scheck :: Server monitor for Linux
About scheck
I am in the process of porting scheck from C to C++. I am going to
be doing it as a branch, and the pure C version will always be available.
There will be no new features in the C++ version, except ( hopefully ) for
cleaner code.
Scheck is a free ( LGPL ) server monitoring application which runs
on a GNU/Linux host. It will attempt to make
a TCP connection to a host on a specified port. If the connection fails, a
message is logged to a log file at ~/.scheck/scheck.log, and an email is sent.
If that connection comes back up, it will then send another message and an
entry is made in the log. Messages are sent when the status of a port changes.
The code is not the best code in the world, but it's small and I have run it
through valgrind to clean any memory leaks. It doesn't require any SMTP server
to be running on the localhost, it uses it's own super simple SMTP engine for
delivering messages.
Compiling scheck
To compile ( there is no install ) scheck, all you have to do is cd into the
scheck/src directory ( scheck-X.X/src ), and type make. It should compile and
put the executable in the current working directory.
cd scheck-X.XX/src make ./scheck
I have compiled it with gcc versions 2.96 ( some in between ) and 3.3.6.
Running scheck
The first run of scheck will prompt for some simple configuration information, and any following runs should be run as follows:
scheck &
Download
This is the first time I am putting scheck up for download, because I have been lazy. I have used it at 2 jobs since 2000, and at home. It has done all that I expected it to do, but it's not awesome. Feel free to work on it yourself, as it is released under the LGPL.
- scheck 0.1
- scheck ( tar ball )
