topic Re: Monitor disk usage within RHAS 3.0 in Operating System - Linux

Monitor disk usage within RHAS 3.0

Jorge Cocomess — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 22:24:26 GMT

Hello to all Linux experts,

I know that you can use iostat, mpstat, and etc. within Redhat Linux to monitor disk I/O usage. Does anyone know of any freeware or 30-days free-trail to a software package that's easy to use, and more of an user friendly? Would be nice if this software has graphical charts as well. I think this would help greatly for newbie like my self.

Thank you in advance.

J

Re: Monitor disk usage within RHAS 3.0

Jess Long — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 06:59:56 GMT

Jorge:

You might want to look at a package named gkrellm. It provides a number of system monitors and runs on a single process. Very good graphical display.

JL

Re: Monitor disk usage within RHAS 3.0

g33k — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 07:21:16 GMT

Jess I myself use gkrellm and it's really greate, but never play with it much. Don't you know if there is possibility of back tracking, I mean what was the CPU usage day ago? Is it possible with gkrellm?

Re: Monitor disk usage within RHAS 3.0

George Liu_4 — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 11:27:03 GMT

sar has the history for 1 month at default
you may use nagios for network wide monitoring

Re: Monitor disk usage within RHAS 3.0

Jorge Cocomess — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 16:36:02 GMT

George - How easy is it to use nagios? Is this more like freeware utility? Where can I get it?

Thanks!!

Re: Monitor disk usage within RHAS 3.0

B Christian — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 18:00:18 GMT

nagios.org - there are client daemons for unix and windows as well as plugins available to check system resources and send an alert when a threshold is exceeded.

bcbv

Re: Monitor disk usage within RHAS 3.0

Jorge Cocomess — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 18:47:41 GMT

Can you use windows box to monitor the linux server?

Thanks,
J