SNMP for centralized systems monitoring, cronjobs for "daemon management". I dislike the tools that take up large system footprints, sometimes larger than the t

SNMP for centralized systems monitoring, cronjobs for "daemon management". I dislike the tools that take up large system footprints, sometimes larger than the things they're supposed to manage themselves, to do simple things. No, they're not always extensible. When you can accomplish the same thing with a 4-5 line shellscript that takes less than 100k of ram to run, that you'd do with a giant process that takes 40-50MB of ram, I know which one I prefer (generally).