[wplug] Linux/unix server monitoring tools

[John Harrold]

Sometime in July Mark Dalrymple assaulted the keyboard and produced:

| 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)

it's funny you should mention this. i just started looking for the same
thing. i've found nagios too, but damn i get the feeling like using it is a
long term relationship. does anyone know of a quickstart howto kind of
thing for nagios? or alternatively, does anyone know of something easier to
use which will give me info like uptime, and current system load?


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