Hi Jeremiah, Thanks for the comments. ALso would like to know on what is the performance indication with respect to the 3? In other words, if we put one of these mechanism as a system monitoring prog on a Production server which will be scheduled for say every 5 mins, what will be the load on the production server among these three?
Thanks, Prakash On Dec 10, 5:52 pm, Jeremiah Bess <[email protected]> wrote: > 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- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - -- 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
