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Hye guys,

I was making a research for the software to monitor your system performance/health.
I found some great apps such as:
bigsister:
http://bigsister.graeff.com/
argus:
http://argus.tcp4me.com
cricket:
http://cricket.sourceforge.net/
nagios:
http://www.nagios.org/
jffnms
http://www.jffnms.org/

But most of this software is a web based.
Anyone can share some good standalone and console based tools with the same purpose?..

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What are you monitoring, and what's wrong with web-based solutions?

I currently use Nagios and Ganglia (again, web-based) to monitor a CDN cluster, and they work well for that purpose. Nagios serves alerts, while Ganglia shows trends.
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i'm curious too. what's wrong with web monitoring?

most people use linux for remote access and remote monitoring, i don't see any use if nagios is not web based.
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Try taking a look at OpenNMS i think thats free too
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QUOTE(wKkaY @ May 15 2007, 03:49 PM)
What are you monitoring, and what's wrong with web-based solutions?

I currently use Nagios and Ganglia (again, web-based) to monitor a CDN cluster, and they work well for that purpose. Nagios serves alerts, while Ganglia shows trends.
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QUOTE(zeroglyph @ May 15 2007, 03:53 PM)
i'm curious too. what's wrong with web monitoring?

most people use linux for remote access and remote monitoring, i don't see any use if nagios is not web based.
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cpu load,memory load,I/O(network/storage),process..
obviously nothing wrong with web based..
but this thing is more suitable for a long term purpose..
it does take quite sometime to properly install and configure.

im looking for some quick solution let say for troubleshooting purpose.
something similar to window's perfmon.
freebsd was the system im currently working on to be exact.


QUOTE(akuma @ May 15 2007, 03:54 PM)
Try taking a look at OpenNMS i think thats free too
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thank you for your input.
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QUOTE(zeroglyph @ May 15 2007, 03:53 PM)
i'm curious too. what's wrong with web monitoring?

most people use linux for remote access and remote monitoring, i don't see any use if nagios is not web based.
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I dont think that he's saying that there's something wrong with web monitoring, but rather asking if there's anything out there that can provide him with the data as well directly from the console. Its kinda useful when u're in front of the racks itself, facing purely console screens and wanting to pull out some trends information, without having to pull your notebook out of your bag, and trying to figure out where to plug it into.


Anyways, 2 more to add:

http://www.hyperic.com/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/munin/

Munin is pretty minimalistic, but is pretty good still if u're just after trends
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Ah ok. sysstat is your friend. Use the "sar" tool in it.
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i'm not very sure if this will suit u but i'm using Conky at the moment and it can monitor cpu usage,network,memory and some other stuff
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I'm using Cacti. It have add on plugin can monitor threshold.
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hmm...mostly webbased. I would prefer one that works through SSH.

I am currently using default tools like "top" and "iptraf".

Any other better tools?
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zabbix? nagios is a normal choice maybe. have seen it working in multiple org. before.
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i keep two system overview that way.. works fine under any enviroment i tested.



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QUOTE(ozs @ May 15 2007, 04:19 PM)
cpu load,memory load,I/O(network/storage),process..
obviously nothing wrong with web based..
but this thing is more suitable for a long term purpose..
it does take quite sometime to properly install and configure.

im looking for some quick solution let say for troubleshooting purpose.
something similar to window's perfmon.
freebsd was the system im currently working on to be exact.
thank you for your input.

on freebsd, for cpu you can use commands like uptime, systat or top, for memory/swap you can use pstat, vmstat and top, for network you can use netstat or iperf and for disk i/o, use iostat.

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If talking about linux command from ssh. You can try this few command to check your server status.
cat /proc/cpuinfo - can check the cpu information
df -h -- check free space in your hard disk
free -- check the free memory

Also can try install hddtemp. It can check your hard disk temperature. Easy to configure and use. Can check the temperature in shell or add it on cacti template. But it only work on hard disk that have smart enable. biggrin.gif

Other way will be play around with snmp laugh.gif Can retrieve a lot information about your server. Of course need to add other management tool for enable more snmp information.

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QUOTE(ozs @ May 15 2007, 03:02 PM)
Anyone can share some good standalone and console based tools with the same purpose?..

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---If you're managing RHEL, this a good resource to begin with;
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterpr...monitoring.html
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QUOTE(fyire @ May 15 2007, 04:59 PM)
I dont think that he's saying that there's something wrong with web monitoring, but rather asking if there's anything out there that can provide him with the data as well directly from the console. Its kinda useful when u're in front of the racks itself, facing purely console screens and wanting to pull out some trends information, without having to pull your notebook out of your bag, and trying to figure out where to plug it into.
Anyways, 2 more to add:

http://www.hyperic.com/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/munin/

Munin is pretty minimalistic, but is pretty good still if u're just after trends
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QUOTE(wKkaY @ May 15 2007, 05:03 PM)
Ah ok. sysstat is your friend. Use the "sar" tool in it.
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QUOTE(ihsan @ May 19 2007, 08:22 PM)
on freebsd, for cpu you can use commands like uptime, systat or top, for memory/swap you can use pstat, vmstat and top, for network you can use netstat or iperf and for disk i/o, use iostat.
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Thank you guys.. notworthy.gif
Yes this is what im looking for..
Im familiar with linux, just wondering if there is any other special tools for this purpose in unix..
sysstat.. very useful one.. thumbup.gif
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QUOTE(abubin @ May 18 2007, 12:00 PM)
hmm...mostly webbased. I would prefer one that works through SSH.

I am currently using default tools like "top" and "iptraf".

Any other better tools?
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try install mrtg.
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QUOTE(ozs @ May 22 2007, 10:21 PM)
Thank you guys.. notworthy.gif
Yes this is what im looking for..
Im familiar with linux, just wondering if there is any other special tools for this purpose in unix..
sysstat.. very useful one.. thumbup.gif
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doh.gif this is linux/open source thread, bro. READ before u post question. why ask a unix question under linux forum? wan to test linux's user for unix skill? tongue.gif

hpux - glance/glanceplus
solaris - prstat,vmstat ....
aix - topas
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QUOTE(Chaossisxy @ May 30 2007, 08:11 PM)
doh.gif this is linux/open source thread, bro. READ before u post question. why ask a unix question under linux forum? wan to test linux's user for unix skill? tongue.gif

hpux - glance/glanceplus
solaris - prstat,vmstat ....
aix - topas
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well i think systat is under GPL license, am i right? so, its consider as open source. hehe.

http://perso.orange.fr/sebastien.godard/index.html
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