About dbAlerter ================ Database Alerter = Something wrong with your DB? Well now you know what! After suffering at the hands of external monitoring tools, I decided to write something that would run standalone and provide detailed notification for database issues that often elude a busy DBA. Initially focussing on MySQL, I recently rewrote the daemon with a view to supporting more database platforms in the near future. Requirements ------------ * Python 2.6+ (http://www.python.org) * xmpppy 0.5.0+ (http://xmpppy.sourceforge.net) MySQL ----- * MySQL-python 1.2.3+ (http://mysql-python.sourceforge.net) Installation ------------ Installation *should* be as simple as: $ python setup.py install Further Information ------------------- Check out the website for more detailed documentation: http://www.dbAlerter.org