On Friday 17 January 2003 14:31, you wrote: > I don't regard those as monitoring tools: rather they take a snapshot of > the state of the system at a given moment. > > In contrast, monitoring tools such as mon take regular measurements. Mon > in particular can monitor anything - including your aircon - by adding a > script or too (and the relevant sensors).
This is true, the normal tools allow you to take a snapshot of system state for that given time. Combine this with some careful and creative scripting work and you'll get tools that equal MRTG and the likes. There are some open source snmp monitoring projects that exist - Big Brother, Big Sister and cacti that might be a little more palatable. Do a search on freshmeat.net with the keywork snmp, it returns 86 projects. Steve
