SSH, by far is the best remote too. It can be scripted. It's an encrypted tunnel. It can use PKI for passwordless logon. It can do port forwarding for GUI management of a box. SNMP would be my second suggestion. Not as powerful, but does the job. Telnet is a no-no, since everything is transmitted plain text, including username and password.
Jeremiah E. Bess Network Ninja, Penguin Geek, Father of four On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 04:51, Ulrich <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to locate the correct forum to post my query. I am posting > it here. Pls redirect me to the correct forum if this is not the > correct one. > > Query: > Which is the best remote monitoring mechanism for a remote unix > system, for monitoring system params such as CPU, Memory, File space > Usage - Telnet, SSH or SNMP? > > Of these, which has minimum effect/load on the target Unix system for > connecting and executing the monitoring queries in the target? > > Pls let me know. > Thanks, > Prakash ([email protected]) > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users > Group. > To post a message, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit our group at > http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup
