From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 12 14:51:58 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C465C16A418 for ; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 14:51:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net) Received: from snoogles.rachie.is-a-geek.net (rachie.is-a-geek.net [66.230.99.27]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93C5E13C44B for ; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 14:51:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by snoogles.rachie.is-a-geek.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A19151CDFC for ; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 06:51:57 -0800 (AKDT) From: Mel To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 16:51:55 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <20071010195759.GA3820@thought.org> <6.0.0.22.2.20071010163932.025776f8@mail.computinginnovations.com> <20071012004323.GA16110@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20071012004323.GA16110@thought.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200710121651.56292.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> Subject: Re: system admin question... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 14:51:58 -0000 On Friday 12 October 2007 02:43:23 Gary Kline wrote: > ((A parenthetical note): > In prep for this posting I finished (or expanded) my > mail-strip program that eliminates most of the cruft and > leaves the body. ) > > So I'll look at bigsister, conky, nagios, monit, and Ksysguard. > (Mel, if you have a cheatsheet for Ksysguard, that would be a > big win.) The more I can automate, the better. Hmm, the cheatsheet would be: - ssh-keygen -d => create passwordless ssh key - ${EDITOR} ~/.ssh/config => setup configfile to use the passwordless key to those machines. A nice trick is to use CNAME/A record in your local dns, with 'sysguard.machinename.local.domain' and set that as Host for the passwordless key. This allows you to use keys with passwords on normal hostname, should you desire so. The rest is drag'n'drop - create new tabs for a host and drag the infomodule over that you want displayed. Right-click for properties, like size and graph type then save the worksheet. Once the worksheet is setup, nothing on the remote machine is needed and you can set it as default, create/open new ones etc. This is really personal preference. I create worksheets per type (load/memory/disks) and have all machines in different tabs, but others might find it more useful to create worksheets per machine. -- Mel