On Sun, 2006-10-01 at 21:41 +0100, Stuart Herbert wrote: > Hi, > > One of the things that the LAMP Server seed will install will be > something to do automatic server monitoring - CPU, RAM, swap, disk > space, bandwidth, and so on. > > I'm a cacti user myself on my own boxes, but I'm interested to hear if > anyone has any strong preference for an alternative tool. I'd prefer > it if the tool we finally choose is SNMP-based, to make it easy for > folks who want to deploy the LAMP Server in a web farm / multi-server > environment. > > Please reply to the list naming your favourite tool for this job, and why. > > Best regards, > Stu
I really like using rrdtool and mrtg, but, those are as user-friendly as cacti. Cacti is a pretty decent tool though, and, I used to use it before I switched to mrtg/rrdtool. One reason I use rrdtool in my setup is because I need custom graphs that cacti can't provide, but, I guess that in 95% of setups, custom graphs shouldn't be needed. And, I agree on making it SNMP-based. SNMP is a decent standard, and, its widely used by routers, servers, and, hell, I think my printer even has a SNMP server running on it. Thats just my opinion ~ Nick -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
