On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 12:21 +0100, Joep L. Blom wrote: > Charles Steinkuehler wrote: > > On 2/9/2010 2:20 AM, Joep L. Blom wrote: > > > While gkrellm does have a server and client component, it seems mainly > > geared towards desktop type systems with both the client and server > > running on the same machine. > > > > For remote monitoring of something like a LEAF firewall, I would suggest > > SNMP (on the firewall), with the monitoring application of your choice > > running elsewhere to gather statistics. Typical options would be things > > like MRTG, Cacti, OpenNMS in the open source world: > > > > http://oss.oetiker.ch/mrtg/ > > http://www.cacti.net/ > > http://www.opennms.org/ > > > > ...although there are *MANY* other free and proprietary options > > available as well. > > > > In addition to monitoring your firewall, an SNMP based monitoring > > solution can also gather data from your switches and various other > > network infrastructure components if they have SNMP support (which is > > becoming more and more common, even on lower-end hardware). > > > > Charles, > Thanks for your thoughtful reply. However, gkrellm gives the possibility > to gather datat from remote systems by running there the daemon, whicg > gathers the data presented by lmsensors. > If one used SNMP then a daemon process must run that presents the data > using th SNMP protocol, just as the gkrellm daemon presents the data in > its own protocol (Idon't know what they use). > Maybe it is easy to write a simple daemon process with uclib but that is > beyond my capabilities. > Joep
Joep, Maybe that's not necessary. See GKrellm SNMP Monitor http://freshmeat.net/projects/gkrellmsnmp/ -- Mike Noyes <mhnoyes at users.sourceforge.net> http://sourceforge.net/users/mhnoyes/ SF.net Projects: leaf, sourceforge/sitedocs ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: leaf-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user Support Request -- http://leaf-project.org/