I've never ever seen it written up, and I've been a user since the days when xymon was BigBrother (yes, I know they aren't common code... xymon IS the spiritual descendant however)
Recently, I started monitoring a remote service that was failing regularly. It would send me an alert and I'd go fix the service. I got tired of having to do the restarts so I looked a bit more into alerts.cfg. Yes, I can send an alert via a script (do that all the time for sms)... Wait... Can that script do anything else? Well, I'll be! I wrote one to ssh into the offending system (key based authentication) and perform simple diags, collects relevant logs then restart the downed service.
I have seen a number of times, "xymon/bigbrother doesn't restart things".
Thoughts? Concerns?
Bueller? Bueller??