[ILUG] system monitoring and logging s/w

[Ciaran Treanor]

On Tue, 2002-01-08 at 15:01, McAuley, Tim wrote:
> I'm looking for some software to measure and log the performance of a linux
> server. I know there are a variety of tools available, but is there anything
> that will pull them altogether, and hopefully generate viewable statistics?

Install a decent SNMP agent on the machines you're interested
in monitoring (probably already installed if you're running RedHat).

Then install MRTG on a monitoring machine - http://www.mrtg.org/
It's easy to use and generates pretty graphs for your boss.

Ciaran T