From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 18 20:18:08 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 1AB6D16A422 for ; Sat, 18 Mar 2006 20:18:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@philip.pjkh.com) Received: from bravo.pjkh.com (bravo.pjkh.com [72.36.232.219]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C781043D5A for ; Sat, 18 Mar 2006 20:18:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@philip.pjkh.com) Received: from bravo.pjkh.com (bravo.pjkh.com [72.36.232.219]) by bravo.pjkh.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5906C13C7C0; Sat, 18 Mar 2006 14:19:34 -0600 (CST) Received: by bravo.pjkh.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2A0D313C7DD; Sat, 18 Mar 2006 14:19:34 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bravo.pjkh.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28B8613C7DC; Sat, 18 Mar 2006 14:19:34 -0600 (CST) Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 14:19:34 -0600 (CST) From: Philip Hallstrom To: Paul Schmehl In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20060318141835.Q65497@bravo.pjkh.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: System administration 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: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 20:18:08 -0000 > 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