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Subject: Re: Monitoring Server Health
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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
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ports/net-mgmt/mrtg/

It can be hit and miss to get set up, but once you have it working it's 
quite good at providing the information you're looking for.