[clug-talk] server monitoring

[Greg King]

> Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:14:38 -0600
> From: Greg Saunders <greg at taord.com>
> Subject: [clug-talk] server monitoring
> To: CLUG General <clug-talk at clug.ca>
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> Hi all, I'm looking for recommendations on server monitoring, reporting,
> notification toolkit(s). Something to run as a cron job and let me know if
> my drive is filling up, CPU has been running at 100% for days on end,
> there's no RAM left and you could fry bacon on the HDD because of all the
> swapping, that kind of thing. I'm starting to get too many servers to
> worry
> about and I don't want to log in to each of them every day to check on
> things ... I'm lazy :)
> 
> So, what's been working for ya all?
> 
> Thanks!
> Greg

I also use Nagios, cacti and a few other products to monitor network and
server systems. It will be a "learning experience" to set it up, so if you
want to get going quickly, that's what I do.

Greg