System monitoring

[kdagli at infofin.com (Krishna Dagli)]

David Backeberg wrote:
> What exactly do you want to monitor? If you want things like uptime, system 
> load, etc. ganglia is a nice free tool. Has a web interface so you can do 
> remote viewing of status. If you're dying for a feature it doesn't cover you 
> can extend the codebase.
> 
> http://ganglia.sourceforge.net/
> 
> On Thursday 22 April 2004 14:19, Cole Tuininga wrote:
> 
>>Hi all - I was wondering what experiences folks on the list have had
>>with various centralized (software based) system monitors.  I'm thinking
>>something along the lines of Big Brother (http://bb4.com) but open
>>sourced.
>>
>>I'm currently looking at Big Sister (http://bigsister.graeff.com) but
>>I'm curious to hear if anybody else has experiences with other packages
>>that they like?  What do you like about it?  How easy was it to set up?
>>(etc)


Yes, tell what you want to monitor. I use spong. 
<http://linux.about.com/cs/linux101/g/spong-server.htm>.
Also webmin has basic monitoring addons.

-Krishna.