From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GU8pn-0003Zh-Li for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 01 Oct 2006 21:26:52 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k91LPo1k011428; Sun, 1 Oct 2006 21:25:50 GMT Received: from continental.nick125.com (dsl093-220-003.abq1.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.93.220.3]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k91LLrI0004276 for ; Sun, 1 Oct 2006 21:21:54 GMT Received: by continental.nick125.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5891EC8C052; Sun, 1 Oct 2006 15:16:42 -0600 (MDT) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] LAMP Server beauty contest: server monitoring From: Nick Devito To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2006 15:16:41 -0600 Message-Id: <1159737401.18696.10.camel@continental.nick125.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.2 X-Archives-Salt: e6928902-7c39-41a9-8f13-249aab5f299c X-Archives-Hash: ac985e6870bf96d6bd48ddc6ad15872e On Sun, 2006-10-01 at 21:41 +0100, Stuart Herbert wrote: > Hi, > > One of the things that the LAMP Server seed will install will be > something to do automatic server monitoring - CPU, RAM, swap, disk > space, bandwidth, and so on. > > I'm a cacti user myself on my own boxes, but I'm interested to hear if > anyone has any strong preference for an alternative tool. I'd prefer > it if the tool we finally choose is SNMP-based, to make it easy for > folks who want to deploy the LAMP Server in a web farm / multi-server > environment. > > Please reply to the list naming your favourite tool for this job, and why. > > Best regards, > Stu I really like using rrdtool and mrtg, but, those are as user-friendly as cacti. Cacti is a pretty decent tool though, and, I used to use it before I switched to mrtg/rrdtool. One reason I use rrdtool in my setup is because I need custom graphs that cacti can't provide, but, I guess that in 95% of setups, custom graphs shouldn't be needed. And, I agree on making it SNMP-based. SNMP is a decent standard, and, its widely used by routers, servers, and, hell, I think my printer even has a SNMP server running on it. Thats just my opinion ~ Nick -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list