Dear Jordi Sanfeliu: Deeply appreciate your response.
I will familiarize myself with RRDtool. It appears to be a good design choice. Its seems lightweight and better than a SQL-style DB. Thank you for the tip on changing the duration of the graph. I'm assuming the RRDtools's "circular buffer" also adjusts itself to overwrite after 4 hours as you have shown in the example. Since our server is hosted on a small 2-6 T byte NAS, we definitely want to monitor some additional services for media serving, transcoding, etc. Please guide us on this step. -Auro -----Original Message----- From: Jordi Sanfeliu [mailto:jo...@fibranet.cat] Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2012 3:58 AM To: monitorix-general@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Monitorix-general] I just stared experimenting with monitorix, had some questions Hello Auro, Answering your questions below: 1. Monitorix collects data on every minute (hard coded) and uses RRDtool databases to save such data. All these .rrd files are preconfigured to hold daily, weekly, monthly and yearly average values, and hence are files with a fixed size. There isn't any configuration option in monitorix.conf that permits you to change the update frequency. 2. As you know in the main page you can only choose between daily, weekly, monthly and yearly, but there is trick. Once you pressed the OK button you can change the time frame in the URL to ... let's say 4 hours, just like this: Original URL: http://localhost/monitorix-cgi/monitorix.cgi?mode=localhost&graph=_system1&when=1day&color=black URL with time frame modified: http://localhost/monitorix-cgi/monitorix.cgi?mode=localhost&graph=_system1&when=4hour&color=black Let me say you that when you modify time frames you might end up seeing 'squared' graphs. This is because the time you chose doesn't match with any of the four time frames (daily, weekly, monthly and yearly) in which the .rrd file was initially created. 3. I guess you are talking about the System Services graph. This graph shows currently a fixed number of predefined services. Probably in the future this graph can be enhanced in order to support more services and even including the ability to choose which one should appear in the graph. I'm currently working on the 3.0 version which will include some new features. I plan to include a Processes graph which would show statistics of a list of predefined processes. So far though, it's only in my TODO list just waiting to see the light somewhere in 3.x. I hope this helped you. Best regards. On 11/07/2012 12:43 AM, Auro Tripathy wrote: > I tool is great but I'd like to customize it of a > performance-characterization/trouble-shooting environment on an > networked embedded system. > > 1.How can I have more frequent updates? What are the parameters in the > .conf file to tweak. > > 2.Instead of the chart duration to be 1 day, I need to have the > duration to be 4 hours > > 3.I want to monitor my own services/perocesses, not the ones listed > (ssh, ftp, telnet, samba,..., fail2ban, etc.), How can I do that. > > -Auro > -- Jordi Sanfeliu FIBRANET Network Services Provider http://www.fibranet.cat ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ LogMeIn Central: Instant, anywhere, Remote PC access and management. Stay in control, update software, and manage PCs from one command center Diagnose problems and improve visibility into emerging IT issues Automate, monitor and manage. Do more in less time with Central http://p.sf.net/sfu/logmein12331_d2d _______________________________________________ Monitorix-general mailing list Monitorix-general@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/monitorix-general ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ LogMeIn Central: Instant, anywhere, Remote PC access and management. Stay in control, update software, and manage PCs from one command center Diagnose problems and improve visibility into emerging IT issues Automate, monitor and manage. Do more in less time with Central http://p.sf.net/sfu/logmein12331_d2d _______________________________________________ Monitorix-general mailing list Monitorix-general@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/monitorix-general
