Title: Monitor your systems with reed-alert
Author: Solène
Date: 17 January 2018
Tags: unix lisp reed-alert
Description:
This article will present my software __reed-alert__, it checks
user-defined states and send user-defined notification. I made it
really easy to use but still configurable and extensible.
## Description
__reed-alert__ is _not_ a monitoring tool producing graph or storing
values. It does a job sysadmins are looking for because there are no
alternative product (the alternatives comes from a very huge
infrastructure like Zabbix so it's not comparable).
From its configuration file, __reed-alert__ will check various states
and then, if it fails, will trigger a command to send a notification
(totally user-defined).
## Fetch it
This is a open-source and free software released under MIT license,
you can install it with the following command:
# git clone git://bitreich.org/reed-alert
# cd reed-alert
# make
# doas make install
This will install a script `reed-alert` in /usr/local/bin/ with the
default Makefile variables. It will try to use ecl and then sbcl if
ecl is not installed.
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