With each new server comes at least one more daily crontab email. The FreeBSD servers even send two: a daily and a security run output. Thanks to my obsession with virtualisation the number of emails I need to read (and then often discard without further action) is becoming too much.
What ways are there to manage / automate this process? Can emails be replaced by something that is web based? Surely some of you must have found creative ways for this.
The emails are really for folks who are a small shop with a few boxes, and do not any monitoring infrastructure in place. I would suggest looking into monitoring packages that will provide you the same insight, but from a more dashboard/alert me only if it's broken perspective.
Nagios (http://www.nagios.org) and Ganglia (http://ganglia.sourceforge.net/) are both open source monitoring packages that can provide this type of functionality.