minimon

MINIMON

MINIMON is a very minimalistic system monitoring daemon supporting most Nagios and Zenoss plugins.

MINIMON alerts when a services goes down, nothing more, nothing less. And it features a nice webpage to view the json status output.

MINIMON was written in about 24hours because of frustration with current monitoring systems which are either utterly total crap or too expensive.

Configuring MINIMON

Configure minimon according to minimon_test.json and store the config in /etc/minimon.json.

First configure a redis server and portname in globals config.

Each monitored check is stored in the checks array. Each check has a schedule name which can be specified on the commandline when running from cron.

Create one or more cron entries like these examples:

0    0      *  *  *    root   minimon -schedule daily
0    *      *  *  *    root   minimon -schedule hourly
*    *      *  *  *    root   minimon -schedule critical
0    09-23  *  *  1-5  root   minimon -schedule office-hourly
*/5  09-23  *  *  1-5  root   minimon -schedule office-5min

If you want to use the website to view the results, pipe minimon -json after your most frequent running schedule. Like this:

*    *      *  *  *    root   minimon -schedule minutely ; minimon -json > htdocs/status.json

To use the website put the htdocs directory somewhere where a webserver can reach it. Minimon is not a daemon.