On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 8:11 AM, Chris Adams
<chris@stemcel.co.uk> wrote:
If you're using a linux based system, you may have some luck setting
up syslogger to forward logging packets to the remote ip address, and
running the twisted daemon on the other box, and sending notifications
if the heartbeat from the monitored machine stops.
I was working on a project recently to set up a monitor a RFID based
access control system for building, that runs on
twisted/openwrt/linux, we used an approach like this.
The link below shows a sample twisted python file that runs on a
monitoring machine.
http://github.com/derfred/doord/blob/cd300a1cde930c07cd13d98be3e45cb89df79809/log_watcher.py