I've discovered "monit" more than one year ago.
I've been seduced when I read "Monit can start a process if it does not run, restart a process if it does not respond and stop a process if it uses to much resources.". Yes, that's right! Why other admin tools are only able to send alert messages, when the problem's solution is often a one-line shell command?
But..... "monit" has to be installed directly on the server it has to manage, and there was no way to manage multiple monit instances. Yes, "m/monit" was once operational (some screenshots are available), and a new version is announced, but as of today (07-12-2007) I can still read "Scheduled to be released in Q2 2007 or slightly before Duke Nukem Forever hits the shelves.". No comment :-(
After month waiting for this new "m/monit" version, I thought that the development team was too busy, so I decided to write my own version, inspired by published screenshots.
Today I'm proud to announce an alpha version, that can be showed to a limited public : developers (it's too early to let end-users play with it).
It is fully written in PHP (about 900 lines) + MySQL (4 tables) + Smarty (more than 480 .tpl lines, including more than 170 smarty directives lines).
First (ugly) screens can be seen there.
login : test
password : test
I've only allowed "user view" screens with this login, but some screenshots of the "admin part" are available (see the mumo project's screenshots section in SourceForge.net).