From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 7 18: 6:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEFB337B401 for ; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 18:06:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.vianet.ca (taco.vianet.on.ca [209.91.128.11]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E6CCC43E42 for ; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 18:06:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from beholder@unios.dhs.org) Received: (qmail 9202 invoked from network); 8 Nov 2002 02:06:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO unios.dhs.org) (66.186.64.82) by smtp.vianet.ca with SMTP; 8 Nov 2002 02:06:15 -0000 Message-ID: <3DCB1C16.4010405@unios.dhs.org> Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2002 21:06:14 -0500 From: Pat Wendorf User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021018 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: twig les Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: monitoring CPU/mem etc without SNMP References: <20021107223025.39478.qmail@web10103.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I wrote some small scripts that can be used with MRTG (/usr/ports/mrtg). They're mostly for tracking cpu/net/memory/database queries/page hits historically (daily/monthly/yearly). MRTG uses SNMP by default, but it's quite easy to get it working without it. - Pat twig les wrote: >Hey all, after a bit of thinking and some looking thru >email archives I'm still stumped on a way to get CPU, >memory, disk I/O, disk use etc.... info from one >machine to another without using SNMP. All these >boxes are FreeBSD 4.7 Release. > >I'm sure I could rig a script to ssh into the boxes >and do a df -h etc. and write the info to a file but >my gut tells me there is a MUCH better solution that >someone with far better programming skills has already >come up with and stuck in the ports collection. > >So is anyone doing this? The key I'm looking for is >security, which negates SNMP. Something small and >secure with almost no extra features would be nice. > >TIA > >===== >----------------------------------------------------------- >If you give a man a fish, he can eat for a day >If you bludgeon him to death, you can eat the fish yourself >----------------------------------------------------------- > >__________________________________________________ >Do you Yahoo!? >U2 on LAUNCH - Exclusive greatest hits videos >http://launch.yahoo.com/u2 > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message