Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 16:23:30 +1000 From: Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net> To: Philip Hallstrom <freebsd@philip.pjkh.com> Cc: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: System administration question Message-ID: <20060412162330.0f768711@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20060318141835.Q65497@bravo.pjkh.com> References: <D90ED01478F01FBE287D54FE@Paul-Schmehls-Computer.local> <20060318141835.Q65497@bravo.pjkh.com>
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On Sat, 18 Mar 2006 14:19:34 -0600 (CST) Philip Hallstrom <freebsd@philip.pjkh.com> wrote: > > Is there a port or utility that allows you to monitor system stats > > by (either interactively or periodically) reading the various stat > > utilities (fstat, iostat, pstat or swapinfo, systat, top, vmstat, > > etc.) and sending a report to root that summarizes system condition? > > if you want graphs (of historical data) most apps seem to use > rrdtool. I find this page to be useful in looking at the available > options... > > http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/rrdtool/rrdworld/index.en.html Give cacti a try (http://www.cacti.net) . it uses, mainly, SNMP to contact your devices and poll information to your cacti box (i.e., you dont have to run another DB or displays on your server). It plots the data using rrd. It can also plot data coming out of your own scripts (i.e., plot number of tuples in a view in your postgreSQL db...) It may be a little bit overkill for just one server, but graphing for 5 or 10 isnt't goint to be that much harder once you have it set up. Beto
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