Paolo Scarabelli wrote: > Hi Joep, > > There is a snmp plugin for gkrell, you can install the snmp daemon on the > firewall as suggested by Charles and monitor it with the gkrell client. > > Have a nice day, > > Paolo > > Powered by Telkomsel BlackBerry® > > -----Original Message----- > From: "Joep L. Blom" <jlb...@neuroweave.nl> > Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:21:16 > To: Charles Steinkuehler<char...@steinkuehler.net> > Cc: <leaf-user@lists.sourceforge.net> > Subject: Re: [leaf-user] gkrellm > > 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 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 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/ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 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/ > > > Paolo and charles thanks! I will surely install it and let you know the results. Joep ]
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