It was Wednesday, December 03, 2003 when Akens, Anthony took the soap box, saying: : Hi all! : : I'm wanting to write a simple web-based tool to see the status : of several servers at a glance. I know there are many solutions : existing, but I can't learn as much about perl by just using one : of those as I can by writing my own. The first step I want to do : is call a script from cron that runs several basic monitoring tools : (sar, vmstat, df, iostat, etc) and saves the output of each to a : file. Then I'd parse those files up, and write a summary file.
You may be able to save yourself a load of time by using some already-written tools such as Nagios or mon. http://www.nagios.org/ http://www.kernel.org/software/mon/ Casey West -- Shooting yourself in the foot with APL You shoot yourself in the foot; then spend all day figuring out how to do it in fewer characters. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]