[K12OSN] OT: Monitoring system over time...

[Dan Young]

On Mon, 2004-08-30 at 14:52, Shawn Powers wrote:
> Can someone point me in the right direction -- I want to see how my server
> is performing over a day.  ie, disk i/o (thrashing), CPU usage, network
> load, etc -- but not just for a given moment, but rather a graph or chart
> for a day.

If you have sysstat installed, you could use "sar". "man sar" to see all
of the options. "sar", "sar -r" , and "sar -b" are some I use regularly.

Doh, just noticing that "sar -b" doesn't work on 2.6 kernels. Hmm.

Alternatively, something like Cacti can make pretty graphs for the web
via SNMP.

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Dan Young
Parkrose School District