OT: Recommendations for system monitoring tool

OT: Recommendations for system monitoring tool

[John Heim]

I am thinking of setting up a network monitoring  tool. My needs are fairly 
simple, I just want to be alerted somehow if the temperature on our file 
server gets too high. That's the minimum. I'm sure I could think of other 
things to do eventually.

But I don't want to have to run X to access the  setup or the monitoring 
interface. I would prefer a command line interface.

Anybody have any experience with that? Doing an apt-cache search leads me to 
nagios and  spong. But I would like to know if either is preferable if 
you're working from the command line.

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John Heim
jheim@math.wisc.edu
3-4189

Re: OT: Recommendations for system monitoring tool

[Janina Sajka]

We have lm_sensors for this on Fedora. It will log, and you could set up
a script to alarm if something goes out of bounds.

Janina

John Heim writes:
> I am thinking of setting up a network monitoring  tool. My needs are fairly 
> simple, I just want to be alerted somehow if the temperature on our file 
> server gets too high. That's the minimum. I'm sure I could think of other 
> things to do eventually.
> 
> But I don't want to have to run X to access the  setup or the monitoring 
> interface. I would prefer a command line interface.
> 
> Anybody have any experience with that? Doing an apt-cache search leads me to 
> nagios and  spong. But I would like to know if either is preferable if 
> you're working from the command line.
> 
> --
> John Heim
> jheim@math.wisc.edu
> 3-4189
> 
> 
> 
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