Open source server monitoring

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Published on 2010-03-24T17:15:26Z Indexed on 2010/03/24 17:23 UTC
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I'm running Ubuntu server and am looking or a server monitoring utility that is open source/free. We don't need any thing too fancy. Mainly we want to know when the server is offline or if any core services have issues. Preferably something that can send us text messages or emails would be great.

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