First it was the three red rings of death. I had to wait forever for them to ship my console back to me! And now my Xbox 360 console won’t play games anymore from disc. Fallout, Crackdown, Orange Box, and COD world at war, I tried them all and none of them will play. I can get on Xbox live and play Castle Crashers just fine, but any attempt to play a game from CD and it acts like the disc is all scratched up.

Monitor all the usual stuff like processes, files, directories, disk space, etc. AND set up simple processes for restarting services or umounting partitions when they reach thresholds. The monit.conf syntax is very straight-forward. I like the way they haven’t added any useless complexity as just an attempt to make it look sophisticated. I currently use mrtg to monitor bandwidth utilization, cpu usage, and even disk space on a group of servers, and i’ve used cacti and nagios in the past, but monit is by far the easiest to get setup and running. Of the three, it’s definitely the quickest to setup with the least hassle. I gave up on nagios and all its plugins a long time ago, so maybe that project has been revamped, but I dont plan on trying it out again anytime soon.