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

Re: Monitoring Server Health

2006-06-26 Thread Derek Ragona
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

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 Laurence Sanford
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

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

Re: Monitoring Server Health

2006-06-25 Thread Howard Jones
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