Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 08:33:14 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: monitoring CPU/mem etc without SNMP Message-ID: <20021108083314.GA3028@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> In-Reply-To: <20021107223025.39478.qmail@web10103.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20021107223025.39478.qmail@web10103.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 02:30:25PM -0800, twig les wrote: > Hey all, after a bit of thinking and some looking thru > email archives I'm still stumped on a way to get CPU, > memory, disk I/O, disk use etc.... info from one > machine to another without using SNMP. All these > boxes are FreeBSD 4.7 Release. Check out Big Brother http://bb4.com/ -- it's not in ports, but it's written in quite portable shell scripts, so you should be able to get it running without too much hassle. There's also a large library of add-ons available at http://www.deadcat.net/ which should let you monitor whatever you want. Note that Big Brother is only free for non-commercial use. > So is anyone doing this? The key I'm looking for is > security, which negates SNMP. Something small and > secure with almost no extra features would be nice. However you set it up, something of this nature will expose you to extra security risks. I wouldn't necessarily rate Big Brother as particularly more secure than a well configured SNMP based system, but BB is certainly easier to get right for first timers. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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