[PLUG] Real-time monitoring of *nix hosts?

Jason R. Martin nsxfreddy at gmail.com
Sat Jan 21 21:04:54 UTC 2006


On 1/21/06, Charlie Schluting <charlie at schluting.com> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I'm *not* looking for cacti, nagios, or the like.
>
> I am looking for something that will allow me to view programmable data
> about various *nix hosts in real-time. Here's my vision:
>
> A Java (gasp) GUI that lists all computers. It has many different views,
> including some "combined" stats. My first dream is to click on a
> computer's icon and see some vital statistics about it. Free space,
> load, memory hogs, etc. My second dream is to have some combined views,
> perhaps in graph form, like "load averages." This would probably take
> the form of one line per host (or some subset of all hosts) showing
> graphically what the load is.
> Optional, crazy ideas include: discovery of all hosts on a subnet that
> happen to be running the monitoring server software, and threshold
> settings to turn icons red (like nagios).
>
> Those are the simplest examples, but surely I'd want to monitor much
> more. Does anything like this exist? Anything close, that might be
> similar? Clearly this implies a server needs to run on each client.. and
> that's ok. (ssh-ing would probably be too slow once the number of hosts
> approaches a few hundred)
>
> I thought I'd ask before going off on some wild and crazy
> caffeine-driven coding frenzy.

While the interface is different that what you describe, it sounds
like at least some of the functionality would be covered by GKrellM.

Jason



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