On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 02:47:47PM -0800, Friendly Tourney wrote: > I am using Cfengine on a bunch of linux boxes, everything is working great. > I can push changes etc , it is wonderful. I am also using the "freespace" > function for tracking diskspace usage on all the linux machines. > I was wondering if i can leverage cfengine to monitor cpu usage, memory > usage etc. I realise that,it is not designed to be Network MONITORING Tool. > What is a good approach, do i use mrtg along with cfengine ? Any ideas from > users with large setups ? > Ofcourse , i can use sar, top, vmstat, iostat etc on the linux box and use > the stats from that data via cfengine , but that will involve a lot of work > to make gui's etc.
The Right Tool For The Job, in this case, is Nagios, either with it's own NRPE-based resource monitoring, or SNMP-based monitoring. The SNMP way is cleaner, but it does require the proper configuration of more different technologies than NRPE/Nagios. (All way off-topic for a cfengine list, though, of course) - Matt -- You have a 16-bit quantity, but 5 bits of it are here and 2 bits of it are there... and 2 bits of it are back here and 3 bits of it are up there. The C code to extract useful data had so many >> and << operators in it that it looked like the C++ version of "hello world". -- Matt Roberds, ASR _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
