RE: lost+found

2006-07-10 Thread Jerlique Bahn
Hello Chuck, Jerlique Bahn wrote: If I pull the power on my server whilst its doing heavy IO, should I get files in lost+found if my raid card has battery backed cache? Yes, it's still possible. The cache on the RAID card will be flushed OK, but any in-process operations by live

lost+found

2006-07-09 Thread Jerlique Bahn
Hello, If I pull the power on my server whilst its doing heavy IO, should I get files in lost+found if my raid card has battery backed cache? I was under the understanding that the file operations were atomic, and hence freebsd's file system should have no corrupted files on the reboot. The

RE: Monitoring Server Health

2006-06-28 Thread Jerlique Bahn
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

Monitoring Server Health

2006-06-25 Thread Jerlique Bahn
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

RE: Monitoring Server Health

2006-06-25 Thread Jerlique Bahn
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