[ILUG] Server monitoring

[Colm MacCárthaigh]

On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 12:23:10PM +0100, Niall O Broin wrote:
> What are any of you using for server monitoring ? I mean something that I
> can run on a box to monitor any number of things from drive space available,
> to system load, to checking that web sites are available, to filling in
> forms on web pages etc. etc.
> 
> The boss says that he came across something on Sourceforge which seems
> highly regarded and has a modular architecture but he can't remember what
> it's called :-( and seraching on "monitoring" on Sourceforge returns quite a
> few hits.

Recently looked at a few, they range from the very manual but good
mrtg/rrdtool (http://redbrick.dcu.ie/about/stats/, 
http://mrtg.hea.net/mrtg/) .. to tools which others have mentioned
like BigBrother and netsaint.

An odd one worth mentioning is Gossips: 
	http://isg.ee.ethz.ch/tools/gossips/

If you're handy with perl, it's a nice framework, but that's all
it is. But it is very modular.

rrdtool can be a bit hairy from scratch, there are scripts at:

	http://redbrick.dcu.ie/~colmmacc/src/rrd_sh/

that will graph any simply number you can produce from a command
line.

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