I was disappointed when I found that you can only trigger an alarm via email from a separate monitoring system. I was expecting that there'd at least be a way to trigger an alarm if an email wasn't sent on schedule.
I halfway expected there to be a portion of Nagios' features built in, at least the ones that make sense for services open on the internet: like ping, socket, and HTTP availability.
I guess your intended focus is to be purely a distribution mechanism for existing alerts -- which isn't very useful for just one person -- especially since I'd have to set up separate offsite monitoring systems to generate the alerts I care most about.
I halfway expected there to be a portion of Nagios' features built in, at least the ones that make sense for services open on the internet: like ping, socket, and HTTP availability.
I guess your intended focus is to be purely a distribution mechanism for existing alerts -- which isn't very useful for just one person -- especially since I'd have to set up separate offsite monitoring systems to generate the alerts I care most about.