RE: Monitoring Server Health
So to clarify my initial request, what I am seeking recommendations for is the program that collects the information, such as server load, temperature, open tcp connections etc of the freebsd server itself. I already have the program to process the data, of which part of this solution is mrtg. net-snmp will do this for you over a network, if that's what you are after. There are additional MIBs to cover most/all of the things you list, and it's not too hard to extend with any custom monitoring you need (I've extended mine to monitor some qmail-specific variables, for instance). It's in ports as net-mgmt/net-snmp. Great stuff. Thank you for this. I've installed and played around with this and it seems that snmpd will do what I want at this stage. There's quite a bit of overlap between some data-processing apps and the data-collection part though. For instance, Cacti is a MRTG-alike with a nice web UI, but it also has some of the data collection scripts you might need, similarly with Remstats, if it is still developed. Either way, it'd be an unusual data-collection/data-processing admin tool that didn't understand SNMP. Well, these programs are data collection/processing orientated, as opposed to providing the raw data which is what I was looking for. This raw data will be used my by Nagios and mrtg etc to make alerts and graphs Many thanks! JB ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Monitoring Server Health
I use bigsister, which is in the ports. Bigsister trys to use snmp and to be non-invasive. However, any monitoring comes with some overhead. On the good side bigsister is cross-platform and can be used on Windows servers as well as FreeBSD (and other 'NIXs too.)Bigsister can be configured on a server by server basis for what you want to monitor, to limit any overheard you can. You can also configure bigsister to store the data in a database such as mysql for more detailed analysis. Hope this helps, -Derek At 01:02 AM 6/25/2006, Jerlique Bahn wrote: Hello, What are sys-admin's using to monitor the status and health of their freebsd servers? Specifically what I mean is the collection of data from the server such as CPU Utilization, memory utilization, various networking resources (eg active connections), disk health etc. I do not mean programs such as nagios which would manage/act on this data. Your thoughts appreciated. JB ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Monitoring Server Health
Hello, What are sys-admin's using to monitor the status and health of their freebsd servers? Specifically what I mean is the collection of data from the server such as CPU Utilization, memory utilization, various networking resources (eg active connections), disk health etc. I do not mean programs such as nagios which would manage/act on this data. Your thoughts appreciated. JB ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Monitoring Server Health
Jerlique Bahn wrote: Hello, What are sys-admin's using to monitor the status and health of their freebsd servers? Specifically what I mean is the collection of data from the server such as CPU Utilization, memory utilization, various networking resources (eg active connections), disk health etc. I do not mean programs such as nagios which would manage/act on this data. Your thoughts appreciated. JB ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ports/net-mgmt/mrtg/ It can be hit and miss to get set up, but once you have it working it's quite good at providing the information you're looking for. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Monitoring Server Health
Hello Laurence, What are sys-admin's using to monitor the status and health of their freebsd servers? ports/net-mgmt/mrtg/ It can be hit and miss to get set up, but once you have it working it's quite good at providing the information you're looking for. Actually mrtg is used to graph the results of the program that I am looking for. So to clarify my initial request, what I am seeking recommendations for is the program that collects the information, such as server load, temperature, open tcp connections etc of the freebsd server itself. I already have the program to process the data, of which part of this solution is mrtg. JS ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Monitoring Server Health
Jerlique Bahn wrote: Actually mrtg is used to graph the results of the program that I am looking for. So to clarify my initial request, what I am seeking recommendations for is the program that collects the information, such as server load, temperature, open tcp connections etc of the freebsd server itself. I already have the program to process the data, of which part of this solution is mrtg. net-snmp will do this for you over a network, if that's what you are after. There are additional MIBs to cover most/all of the things you list, and it's not too hard to extend with any custom monitoring you need (I've extended mine to monitor some qmail-specific variables, for instance). It's in ports as net-mgmt/net-snmp. There's quite a bit of overlap between some data-processing apps and the data-collection part though. For instance, Cacti is a MRTG-alike with a nice web UI, but it also has some of the data collection scripts you might need, similarly with Remstats, if it is still developed. Either way, it'd be an unusual data-collection/data-processing admin tool that didn't understand SNMP. Best Regards, Howie ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
