Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 13:41:25 -0600 From: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: System administration question Message-ID: <1B045D0C372087A86CFAD97F@Paul-Schmehls-Computer.local> In-Reply-To: <441C5D26.30506@aeternal.net> References: <D90ED01478F01FBE287D54FE@Paul-Schmehls-Computer.local> <441C5D26.30506@aeternal.net>
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--On March 18, 2006 8:19:02 PM +0100 Martin Hudec <corwin@aeternal.net> wrote: > > Paul Schmehl 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? > > I am using my own shell script to send mail reports about various > conditions of system. > I thought about doing that as well, but I'm wondering if there is something that already exists. (No sense in reinventing the wheel.) Also, feeding the info to a database so trending information would be available as well would probably be a nice feature. > Also I am using stuff like nagios, munin to monitor my servers and to > provide me with notifications in case of incidents. > The problem I have is I have one server running everything: list software (mailman), smtp (postfix), imap (courier-imapd), web (apache13/mod_ssl), webmail (squirrelmail), dns (bind9) and bulletin board software (ultimatebb). The website gets over 5 million hits/month, so I don't want to add any more daemons, if I don't have to. Something that spawns a short-term shell or process daily in the early morning hours would probably be the best solution. Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu) Adjunct Information Security Officer University of Texas at Dallas AVIEN Founding Member http://www.utdallas.edu/
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