Ronnie is our resident expert here at Puryear IT. I think he uses a combination of local scripts that do remote logins and a few other things. We will be moving to net-snmpd calling external scripts shortly though.
--- Puryear Information Technology, LLC Baton Rouge, LA * 225-706-8414 http://www.puryear-it.com Author: "Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers" "Spam Fighting and Email Security in the 21st Century" Download your free copies: http://www.puryear-it.com/publications.htm Saturday, January 20, 2007, 1:12:36 AM, you wrote: > On Wed, 17 Jan 2007, Dustin Puryear wrote: >> Cacti rocks. We use it all over the place. > I looked at Cacti a long time ago and it was ok. I looked again and it > seems really cool. I setup and managed to get a graph of Apache server > requests using the server-status handler. It's a slight learning curve > dealing with all the templating. > How are you guys doing data collection? External scripts? SNMP? snmpd > calling external scripts? I'd like a little more granularity that the > default stuff... for example a graph of each vmstat column would be nice. > Our current homegrown rrd system is about 1200 graphs and 150 data > collection scripts. So the less i have to "touch" my systems (making > users, copying scripts, setting up crontabs, ssh keys, etc), the better. > ray > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General at brlug.net > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
