[mrtg] Re: Monitoring Linux Server

[mrtg]

I have a perl script that I copied. It works for some of the items -
traffic and memory/swap usage - but not for others - CPU and disk IO. I
would like to grab uptime as well.

The perl scripts were written with Redhat 7 in mind. I don't know -
because I don't know Perl - but I suspect they may not be working
because of the version of the OS.

Any suggestions, pointers or perl scripts would be appreciated.

Thanks.

me


-----Original Message-----
From: Corey Goldberg [mailto:cgoldberg at earthlink.net] 
Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2005 10:13 AM
To: mrtg at list.ee.ethz.ch
Subject: [mrtg] Re: Monitoring Linux Server

>I have a Redhat Linux 9 server that I would like to use MRTG to
monitor.
>I cannot seem to find scripts that will gather information such as 
>traffic, uptime, cpu utilization. disk utilization, etc.
>
>Does anyone know of a script or other tool I can use to gather this 
>information?

You normally gather information via SNMP.
However, MRTG allows you to create external monitoring scripts that can
be written to perform any actions you want to collect stats (which will
then be graphed).

I have a situation where I needed to monitor servers that are unable to
use SNMP.  As an agentless solution, I created Perl scripts that login
to the servers (via telnet, but this could easily be ssh or other means)
and execute the commands I need to gather stats (uptime, vmstat, iostat,
etc).  These are then returned to MRTG which creates graphs.

-Corey Goldberg

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