On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 12:21 +0100, Joep L. Blom wrote:
> Charles Steinkuehler wrote:
> > On 2/9/2010 2:20 AM, Joep L. Blom wrote:
>
> > While gkrellm does have a server and client component, it seems mainly
> > geared towards desktop type systems with both the client and server
> > running on the same machine.
> >
> > For remote monitoring of something like a LEAF firewall, I would suggest
> > SNMP (on the firewall), with the monitoring application of your choice
> > running elsewhere to gather statistics. Typical options would be things
> > like MRTG, Cacti, OpenNMS in the open source world:
> >
> > http://oss.oetiker.ch/mrtg/
> > http://www.cacti.net/
> > http://www.opennms.org/
> >
> > ...although there are *MANY* other free and proprietary options
> > available as well.
> >
> > In addition to monitoring your firewall, an SNMP based monitoring
> > solution can also gather data from your switches and various other
> > network infrastructure components if they have SNMP support (which is
> > becoming more and more common, even on lower-end hardware).
> >
>
> Charles,
> Thanks for your thoughtful reply. However, gkrellm gives the possibility
> to gather datat from remote systems by running there the daemon, whicg
> gathers the data presented by lmsensors.
> If one used SNMP then a daemon process must run that presents the data
> using th SNMP protocol, just as the gkrellm daemon presents the data in
> its own protocol (Idon't know what they use).
> Maybe it is easy to write a simple daemon process with uclib but that is
> beyond my capabilities.
> Joep
Joep,
Maybe that's not necessary. See
GKrellm SNMP Monitor
http://freshmeat.net/projects/gkrellmsnmp/
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