> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Devers > Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2004 4:33 PM > To: Tal Cohen > Cc: 'Boston.PM' > Subject: RE: [Boston.pm] Is there a module to access memory usage? > > > On Wed, 14 Jul 2004, Tal Cohen wrote: > > > Yeah, I thought of that. I was hoping for a platform independent > > mechanism. If not, then I can use this type of methodology, > but how do > > I account for Windows based machines? > > Set up SNMP on each client and write generic, cross-platform scripts > that can make SNMP queries to find out such things (or better still, > install a package like Mon or MRTG that does such things for you). > > O'Reilly's _Perl for System Administration_ gives a quick overview of > such things; chapter 10 & appendix E have the material you need here. > The _Essential SNMP_ book gets into much more detail, and has > chapters > on MRTG setup & use and using Perl to script SNMP work. > > Setting up an SNMP architecture may be more overhead than you have in > mind, but once you have it in place, monitoring all kinds of > things, for > all kinds of devices (computers with about any operating > system, as well > as things like printers, network hardware, etc) gets really easy. > > "How does one brew a cup of tea? First one must create the > universe..." > > > -- > Chris Devers > _______________________________________________
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