Monitoring Redhat systems.

[Romeo Theriault]

On 6/7/07, brad at bradandkim.net <brad at bradandkim.net> wrote:
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> > We currently run about 40 redhat servers on site and I have been asked
> to
> > Monitor and report on Disk usage, server usage and do performance
> > monitoring. Could anyone suggest any tools I could use to enable me to
> do
> > this. Preferably something that is easy to set-up as i have limited
> > knowledge of Redhat Admin currently.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Andrew Bridgeman
> >
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> I agree that Big Brother and Nagios are good solutions, and have heard
> that munin is nice as well.  If you want really detailed information along
> with very pretty graphs, you can run snmpd on the servers and report the
> results with rrdTool.  The learning curve is a bit steep, but the results
> are very nice.  Also, many servers with remote access cards support IPMI
> and you can get good information from the card about all the internal
> components of the server, such as motherboard power, temperature, fan
> speed, etc.  Big Brother has plugins for these kinds of things and I am
> sure Nagios has an IPMI plugin as well.
>
> Brad Crotchett
> brad at bradandkim.net
> http://www.bradandkim.net
>
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http://www.hyperic.com/ is another possible solution as is
http://www.zenoss.com/

Romeo