I have a couple of Linux servers running as job farms using cron to fire off scripts.

What I don't have is a central job notification system. My google-fu wasn't good. I'm imagining using a database table.

The database table schema I'm imagining is:

NAME-----Desc
pk-------primary_Key
logDate--date_time
status---bit (0/1)
job_name-varchar(50)
messg----varchar(255)

I'm running 50 or more jobs a day, every day. My scripts email me if there's a failure inside the script, but it's not 100% foolproof and 49/50 is considered a fail. This way I can check if all jobs ran on a given day and catch the odd failures.

Anyone else set something similar up? Maybe there's a nagios/icinga way to accomplish something similar?

Check out rundeck

That's very nice, but it won't work in my environment. I can't run java among other things.

You run the jobs on the server, but through your workstation using rundeck.
No java on the workstation?

No, sorry. It's not my rules.

Their network, their rules.
I get it.