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From: Philip Hallstrom <freebsd@philip.pjkh.com>
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Subject: Re: System administration question
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> 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

-p