Re: Suggestions for remote server monitoring
What software would people recommend for remotely monitoring a server? I'm not talking about intrustion detection and whatnot, just keeping an eye on things like CPU load, memory, bandwidth usage, etc. Bonus points if it uses something like RRD--graphs and charts are not just pretty eyecandy for me. If you want to monitor resources on a remote system, try cacti. It has great graphing capability using RRD. One of my favorite features is being able to highlight a section of your graph and have it draw a new graph to zoom in on the area of concern. -- John Barton [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Suggestions for remote server monitoring
Jacob S wrote: On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 06:50:24 +0300 Peter Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What software would people recommend for remotely monitoring a server? I'm not talking about intrustion detection and whatnot, just keeping an eye on things like CPU load, memory, bandwidth usage, etc. Bonus points if it uses something like RRD--graphs and charts are not just pretty eyecandy for me. apt-cache show nagios Nagios will keep track of all your services - from http, to e-mail, to ftp, etc. as well as the number of running processes, disk usage, etc. It will also e-mail you when it sees a problem. It has a webpage admin interface that's pretty informative. The only thing I think it doesn't do is monitor bandwidth for you; that would require a different program. If you have access to the data, it isn't hard to extend Nagios to handle custom monitoring tasks. Just write a script that returns a status code and some text. We have been using it for several servers at work for a while with good success. Likewise. Regards, Upayavira -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Suggestions for remote server monitoring
On 5 Jan 2005, at 14:29, John Barton wrote: If you want to monitor resources on a remote system, try cacti. It has great graphing capability using RRD. One of my favorite features is being able to highlight a section of your graph and have it draw a new graph to zoom in on the area of concern. Has anyone got cacti running with Exim mailserver statistics? Regards, Philipp Kern -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Suggestions for remote server monitoring
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 06:50:24 +0300 Peter Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What software would people recommend for remotely monitoring a server? I'm not talking about intrustion detection and whatnot, just keeping an eye on things like CPU load, memory, bandwidth usage, etc. Bonus points if it uses something like RRD--graphs and charts are not just pretty eyecandy for me. apt-cache show nagios Nagios will keep track of all your services - from http, to e-mail, to ftp, etc. as well as the number of running processes, disk usage, etc. It will also e-mail you when it sees a problem. It has a webpage admin interface that's pretty informative. The only thing I think it doesn't do is monitor bandwidth for you; that would require a different program. We have been using it for several servers at work for a while with good success. HTH, Jacob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Suggestions for remote server monitoring
This one time, at band camp, Peter Clark said: What software would people recommend for remotely monitoring a server? I'm not talking about intrustion detection and whatnot, just keeping an eye on things like CPU load, memory, bandwidth usage, etc. Bonus points if it uses something like RRD--graphs and charts are not just pretty eyecandy for me. munin for local tests, nagios for the network ones. There is some overlap - munin can do network tests, but it seems they are best suited in those realms, at least so far. munin lacks the ability to directly alert an admin of a problem (although it can alert via nagios). nagios lacks decent graphing tools, while munin makes pretty RRD-graphs. HTH, -- - | ,''`.Stephen Gran | | : :' :[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | `. `'Debian user, admin, and developer | |`- http://www.debian.org | - pgpr8E5UjhLLk.pgp Description: PGP signature
