[wplug] Linux/unix server monitoring tools

[Sal Mangiapane]

I have a set of scripts (ksh, awk) that I originally downloaded from Sys Admin magazine.  I made adjustments to run on AIX.
Basically it runs UNIX commands and parses the data to create flat files with CPU, Network and Disk activity.  I ran it every 15
minutes via cron.  I also had once-a-day scripts that read the flat files and created one line averages for the previous day.

I would be glad to send the scripts to you if you want to add your own collection/display.

sal

> A friend of mine asked me today:
>
> (Big Organization) has an in-house tool used for monitoring CPU usage,
> run queue, wait io, etc. for its Solaris and AIX servers. Since we're
> using some of the first linux machines in the Big Organization,
> they've just now discovered porting this to linux will require a
> non-trivial amount of work due to differences in how the linux kernel
> stores these data.
>
> So, while they're working on that port, we're looking for a
> reasonable alternative. which is where you come in.
>
> Does anybody have any recommendations for systems that can provide
> this sort of information? The preferred architecture is to have
> data-gathering clients run on each machine with a central server to
> collect and display in a spiff web UI.
>
> Any folks have a favorite tool they use?  (someone pointed me to
> http://www.nagios.org/ already)
>
> Thanks,
> ++Mark Dalrymple, markd at badgertronics.com.  http://badgertronics.com
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