linux monitor software [solved]

thesheff17 · Apprentice Joined: 12 Jan 2005 Posts: 283

I come to the forums to see what other people use to monitor there systems. I am slowly building 10+ gentoo linux boxes and would like to make one a monitoring center for all other boxes. My company that I work for use something called big brother http://www.bb4.org/ but some of my boxes are for my company and they want licensing if you are going to be using it for a company. I pretty much need a web interface for disk space, CPU utilization, and other services. Any suggestions?

Enverex · Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 10:55 pm Post subject:

I believe there is something called "phpsysinfo" or something. Just install that and Apache and you're good to go.

Insanity5902 · Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 3:15 am Post subject:

Just found this, don't know much about it

http://www.bigsister.ch/bigsister.html , it is GPL-2

And there is also nagios and a few others in the portage tree.
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bubbl07 · Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 3:48 am Post subject:

I've been using phpsysinfo on three gentoo computers for about a year (probably a bit shorter, but it feels like a while): two at work and my personal fileserver.

If you don't mind checking out each server individually, I highly recommend it.

Janne Pikkarainen · Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 8:25 am Post subject:

I absolutely love Nagios. True, it can be a bit daunting to setup, but on the other hand, once you get it running, it is VERY reliable and can be extented to do whatever you ever want to monitor. It also has several utilities to push out performance/availability data as graphs. See http://nagios.org/ and http://www.nagiosexchange.org/ for more information. In my opinion, time spent configuring Nagios is time well spent!

For me it constantly monitors around 60 servers and more than 400 services. Has been working for me since 2002 or so without a hitch.
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thesheff17 · Apprentice Joined: 12 Jan 2005 Posts: 283

Well I am going to try Nagios and I will post my findings. Thanks for all the suggestions.

orvtech · Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 4:59 pm Post subject:

how a bout something lighter ... something for a machine with a xscalade proc. @ 133Mhz and 32Mb of RAM ? would nagios be to heavy for this task ?
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rmh3093 · Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 5:16 pm Post subject:

cacti is pretty sweet too
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orvtech · Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 5:32 pm Post subject: