From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 26 16:30:19 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 E633816A403 for ; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 16:30:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from betty.computinginnovations.com (dsl081-142-072.chi1.dsl.speakeasy.net [64.81.142.72]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61E8F46585 for ; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 16:30:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from p17.computinginnovations.com (dhcp-10-20-30-100.computinginnovations.com [10.20.30.100]) (authenticated bits=0) by betty.computinginnovations.com (8.13.6/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k5QGTgu7086753; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 11:29:43 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <6.0.0.22.2.20060626112525.025826d8@mail.computinginnovations.com> X-Sender: derek@mail.computinginnovations.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.0.0.22 Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 11:29:33 -0500 To: "Jerlique Bahn" , From: Derek Ragona In-Reply-To: <040b01c6981c$f966adc0$0101a8c0@WKSTN501> References: <040b01c6981c$f966adc0$0101a8c0@WKSTN501> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-From: derek@computinginnovations.com X-Spam-Status: No Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: Re: Monitoring Server Health 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: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 16:30:19 -0000 I use bigsister, which is in the ports. Bigsister trys to use snmp and to be non-invasive. However, any monitoring comes with some overhead. On the good side bigsister is cross-platform and can be used on Windows servers as well as FreeBSD (and other 'NIXs too.) Bigsister can be configured on a server by server basis for what you want to monitor, to limit any overheard you can. You can also configure bigsister to store the data in a database such as mysql for more detailed analysis. Hope this helps, -Derek At 01:02 AM 6/25/2006, Jerlique Bahn wrote: >Hello, > >What are sys-admin's using to monitor the status and health of their freebsd >servers? > >Specifically what I mean is the collection of data from the server such as >CPU Utilization, memory utilization, various networking resources (eg active >connections), disk health etc. > >I do not mean programs such as nagios which would manage/act on this data. > >Your thoughts appreciated. > >JB > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >-- >This message has been scanned for viruses and >dangerous content by MailScanner, and is >believed to be clean. >MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support.