From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 25 12:03:40 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 A677F16A400 for ; Sun, 25 Jun 2006 12:03:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from howie@thingy.com) Received: from tasmania.network-i.net (tasmania.network-i.net [212.21.121.160]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 775FA43D68 for ; Sun, 25 Jun 2006 12:03:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from howie@thingy.com) Received: (qmail 65769 invoked from network); 25 Jun 2006 12:03:37 -0000 Received: from nat1.network-i.net (HELO ?10.1.1.134?) (212.21.99.52) by tasmania.network-i.net with SMTP; 25 Jun 2006 12:03:37 -0000 Message-ID: <449E7BB5.2080705@thingy.com> Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 13:04:05 +0100 From: Howard Jones User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jerlique Bahn , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <041601c69848$afa2b0e0$0101a8c0@WKSTN501> In-Reply-To: <041601c69848$afa2b0e0$0101a8c0@WKSTN501> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 12:03:40 -0000 Jerlique Bahn wrote: > Actually mrtg is used to graph the results of the program that I am looking > for. > > So to clarify my initial request, what I am seeking recommendations for is > the program that collects the information, such as server load, temperature, > open tcp connections etc of the freebsd server itself. > > I already have the program to process the data, of which part of this > solution is mrtg. > net-snmp will do this for you over a network, if that's what you are after. There are additional MIBs to cover most/all of the things you list, and it's not too hard to extend with any custom monitoring you need (I've extended mine to monitor some qmail-specific variables, for instance). It's in ports as net-mgmt/net-snmp. There's quite a bit of overlap between some data-processing apps and the data-collection part though. For instance, Cacti is a MRTG-alike with a nice web UI, but it also has some of the data collection scripts you might need, similarly with Remstats, if it is still developed. Either way, it'd be an unusual data-collection/data-processing admin tool that didn't understand SNMP. Best Regards, Howie