Monitor and get notified

One thing is running services; another is monitoring them. Monitoring can be done at many different levels. At the lowest level, in my own environment, I monitor hard drives. For this, I use the S.M.A.R.T. analysis, monitoring, and reporting capabilities built into hard drives. I collect the S.M.A.R.T. diagnostic data produced by the hard drives into a centralized service called Scrutiny . Hard…