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