topic Re: Monitoring tool in Operating System - Linux

Monitoring tool

Ragni Singh — Mon, 08 Sep 2003 15:35:48 GMT

Hi all, is there a free tool out there that does the very same thing as glance. We are very tight on budget and can't afford any money on purchasing anything at this point. I have looked at nagious but not too sure about that. I'm looking for something short and simple like glance. Any help is greatly appreciated and points will be assigned.

Re: Monitoring tool

Steven E. Protter — Mon, 08 Sep 2003 15:54:46 GMT

Its called sar. It comes with the OS.

Also Gnome has gtop which is pretty good.

I'm attaching a hpux script that WILL require some modification, but it will collect performance data.

SEP

Re: Monitoring tool

Huc_1 — Mon, 08 Sep 2003 16:00:51 GMT

I would also like a good tool like Glance, and free is also nice in the mean time I use a set of tools

sar,lsof,top,netstat,df,iptraf and monitor the /proc dir
plus often use ps -efww no to mention the tree command

I have glued theses in a set sh scripts to suite my need's

But this does not make nice print-out for show .. but I manage, still would be nice to have a free Glance for linux...

J-P

Re: Monitoring tool

Vincent Woo — Wed, 10 Sep 2003 08:09:01 GMT

I am using nagios.
trust me ,it is really good.
I had a list of Linux, Solaris, and Windows servers

when any services go down , I will get an email alert.

and when the drive capacity reach a certain percentage, I get email again

cheers.

Re: Monitoring tool

K.C. Chan — Wed, 10 Sep 2003 15:44:21 GMT

have you look at bigbrother, try this url: http://bb4.com. hope this helps.